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Pop Art

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Track listing: Pop Art; Count Me In; Another Mystery; Commando; Grant; Heart and Skye; Thank You Wedge; Streaks; Song for the New Decade; Jeremy Bentham; Money Rollins.

Article: Big Band Caravan

Bob Lark Alumni Band / Bob Curnow / JazzMN Big Band

by Jack Bowers
May 8, 2012

Bob Lark and His Alumni Big BandReunionJazzed Media2012 As director for more than two decades of DePaul University's superb Jazz Ensemble, trumpeter Bob Lark has seen an endless parade of outstanding musicians pass through the ranks, which makes the first-ever Reunion of his Alumni Big Band a ...

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Chris Madsen: Pop Art

Read "Pop Art" reviewed by Thomas Carroll

by Thomas Carroll
April 16, 2012

Freedom of musical form is one of the many beauties of jazz. Jazz musicians express themselves through improvisation over musical structures that they can alter at any moment, shifting through different meters, timbres and harmonic landscapes. However, musicians run the risk of becoming too self-invested when they engage in long-form improvisation. In those unfortunate instances when ...

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Bob Lark and his Alumni Big Band: Reunion

Read "Reunion" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
March 14, 2012

Veteran jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn master Dr. Bob Lark has directed many big bands in more than 20 years as Director of Jazz Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. With Reunion, Lark reunites 22 musicians from those bands as his Alumni Big Band, debuting the group on a monster collection of powerful orchestrations. While the ...

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Chris Madsen Trio Plays Bix Beiderbecke

By Chris Madsen

Label: Jerujazz Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Riverboat Shuffle; Singin' the Blues; Dardanella; I'm Comin' Virginia; Way Down Yonder in New Orleans; Candlelights; In a Mist; In the Dark; Flashes; Ostrich Walk; Davenport Blues

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Hidden

By Chris Madsen

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2006
Track listing: Innonence Is Bliss; Free To Drive; County E; The Spirit of '96; Molasses; Hidden.

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Chris Madsen: Hidden

by Budd Kopman
March 8, 2006

Hidden is one of those mainstream discs that reminds us that there really is life and originality in accessible jazz. Chris Madsen, an extremely talented composer, makes the flow of each track continually surprising. He is also a deep thinking soloist who refuses to go for the easy lick. The smile factor on ...