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Bob Brookmeyer: Plays Piano: Holiday
by Dave Nathan
Being able to play more than one instrument is quite common in jazz, especially these days. Even moving between reed and horn is not unusual as Benny Carter, Jay Thomas and others have demonstrated. But moving from a trombone to a piano with sufficient confidence to make an album with the “second" instrument is more than ...
Bob Brookmeyer with the Ed Partyka Jazz Orchestra: Madly Loving You
by Jack Bowers
Kansas City–bred valve trombone master Bob Brookmeyer is top–billed on this handsomely conceived and superbly performed album because it was a gift from Ed Partyka’s Jazz Orchestra and a number of prominent composer / arrangers to Brookmeyer on his seventieth birthday in December 1999. Partyka, a Chicagoan who has lived since 1990 in Cologne, Germany, had ...
Enrico Pieranunzi Quartet: Alone Together
by Dave Nathan
This group is further evidence that jazz is a universal music knowing neither language nor geographic boundary. The countries represented at this session are Italy, Holland, England/ Belgium (Philip Catherine), and the United States, all recording for a Dutch label. The session is a bit of a departure by leader and bop artist Enrico Pieranunzi in ...
Eric Alexander: The Second Milestone
by Jack Bowers
Let’s be honest; no Jazz reviewer can ever be completely objective because each of us has his or her favorite players, those musicians who, in our eyes, can do no wrong and whose next venture we look forward eagerly to hearing. When I was a young man (yes, I can remember that, albeit vaguely) Zoot Sims ...
Eric Alexander: The Second Milestone
by C. Andrew Hovan
If you insist on your jazz being loud and of the avant variety, then this disc will not be for you. If you’ve convinced yourself that the young guys are just revisiting the past, then this disc won’t be for you either. But, if you’re interested in serious mainstream jazz performed by some of the greatest ...
New Works (Celebration)
By Bob Brookmeyer New Art Orchestra
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2000
Blessed
Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: The Look of Love; I Hate Cold Weather; Seasons of Love; Dreams; To Dance the Samba; The Last Laugh; Beach Boys Medley: And Your Dreams Come True, God only Knows, Wouldn't It Be Nice; Good Morning Freedom; Home; Before I Open My Mouth; For Once in My Life; Sail on Sailor
