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Bill O'Connell: Rhapsody in Blue

Read "Rhapsody in Blue" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


Don't let the title, Rhapsody in Blue, fool you. Pianist Bill O'Connell isn't doing an album-length tribute to Gershwin. The title song is just one of three covers in this ten-track set; he rest are O'Connell originals. “Monk's Cha-Cha" features alto saxophonist Steve Slagle. Dave Samuels follows O'Connell with a solo. Bassist Luques Curtis, ...

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Bill O'Connell: Rhapsody In Blue

Read "Rhapsody In Blue" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Internationally recognized composer/pianist Bill O'Connell has long been associated with Latin jazz, having established and cemented his reputation in the genre with past recordings like Black Sand (Random Chance, 2001) and Latin Jazz Fantasy (Random Chance, 2004). However the classically trained O'Connell is also well adept at playing other forms of jazz, including hard bop and ...

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Eric Vloeimans: Live at Yoshi's

Read "Live at Yoshi's" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il trombettista olandese Eric Vloeimans ha alle spalle molte collaborazioni e progetti che lo hanno visto protagonista con il suo suono dolente e carico di espressività accanto a musicisti come John Taylor, Furio di Castri, Joe La Barbera, Marc Johnson, Joey Baron, Palle Danielsson, Rita Marcotulli, Roberto Gatto, Nguyen Le e tanti altri. In questo album, ...

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Toots Thielemans: European Quartet Live

Read "European Quartet Live" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Jean “Toots" Thielemans' musical education started early--he had already started to play the accordion at the age of three. But it was his skill on the harmonica that brought him international fame, and it's that skill which is to the fore on European Quartet Live, featuring a set of well-known tunes taken from concerts in 2006, ...

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The Abyss

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2010

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The Traveller

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Song for F; The Eye of the Mind; Crazy Stuff; The Line; Adagio 13; Cabbonal; Motivation; Searching and Finding; YWC.

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Grow

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: 01. Where Is the Circle? (C. Greve); 02. Beatrice (S. Rivers); 03. Ise's Mind (C. Greve); 04. Slow Town (C. Greve); 05. Grow (C. Greve); 06. False (M. Schmiedal); 07. All Or Nothing At All (Altman/Lawrence); 08. Johnsburg, Illinois (T. Waits).

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Lieb Plays Weill

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: 1. Mack the Knife (Mackie Messer); 2. This Time Next Year; 3. Speak Low; 4. What Good Would the Moon Be; 5. Here I’ll Stay; 6. Liebeslied; 7. Let There Be Life, Love and Laughter; 8. You’re Far Too Near Me; 9. Apple Jack; 10. My Ship; 11. This Is New; 12. September Song.

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New York State of Mind

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Puttin' on the Ritz; Harlem Nocturne; Broadway Melody; Autumn in New York; Down in the Depths of the 90th Floor; Sidewalks of New York; Rose of Washington Square; New York, New York; Chinatown My Chinatown; Manhattan Serenade.


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