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Ba(SH)

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Garrison; Momentary Flux; Quanah; Fathom-A-Ning; On Meditation; 10; Inga; Trillium; Llano Estacado; Think of One.

Album

Clark Sommers' Ba(SH)

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2013

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Article: Album Review

Clark Sommers: Ba(SH)

Read "Ba(SH)" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


There's something quite “free" about a trio without a guitar or piano in the mix, with no chords nailing the sound down. Seattle's Origin Records has a history of offering up excellent saxophone/bass/drums outings: bassist Jeff Johnson's Near Earth (2004) and Free (2000), and drummer John Bishop's Nothing If Not Something (2006). Now three veterans of ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Swingin' on a Riff . . . Hangin' by a Thread?

Read "Swingin' on a Riff . . . Hangin' by a Thread?" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Betty and I returned to Albuquerque on Memorial Day after attending Swingin' on a Riff, the latest in a series of marvelous semi-annual events presented by Ken Poston and the Los Angeles Jazz Institute for more than twenty years at venues in and around L.A. This one was held May 23-26 at the Los Angeles Marriott ...

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Article: Album Review

Geof Bradfield: Melba!

Read "Melba!" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Chicago based saxophonist Geof Bradfield's Melba! is a much needed tribute to the criminally underexposed trombonist and arranger Melba Liston. Liston debuted with trumpeter, bandleader Gerald Wilson, was one of the stars of trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie's bebop big band and devoted herself to arranging after she met pianist Randy Weston with whom she had a long ...

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Kurt Elling: 1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project

Read "1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


The Brill Building holds a special place in popular music history, not just because of the songs crafted within its walls, but also because of what it has come to represent. The ideal of the Brill Building is associated with songs that soundtrack the lives and loves of millions of people around the world. Singer Kurt ...

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Kurt Elling: 1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project

Read "1619 Broadway: The Brill Building Project" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Where female jazz vocalists are plentiful, male jazz vocals exist in vast minority. With Mark Murphy in twilight, Kurt Elling has few peers in the realm of male jazz vocals where sheer inventiveness and muscularity are concerned. Elling's facility is one so great and his musical vision so clear that, at least for the time being, ...

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Article: Live Review

Newport Jazz Festival: Newport, RI, August 5, 2012

Read "Newport Jazz Festival: Newport, RI, August 5, 2012" reviewed by Timothy J. O'Keefe


Newport Jazz FestivalFort Adams State ParkNewport, RIAugust 4-5, 2012Trumpeter Jeremy Pelt belted a splitting note that hooked and reeled in the ear of fellow hornster Avashai Cohen. As soon as Cohen heard the sound, he stopped strolling through the Newport crowd, and jerked his head toward the stage. Cupping a hand ...

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I'll Take Romance

Label: Self Produced
Released: 1999
Track listing: I'll Take Romance; Black Nile; Where Were you When I Needed You; Marmaduke; My One And Only Love; Gentle Rain; Come Sunday.


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