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Colin Stranahan: Transformation
by Michael P. Gladstone
It is good to hear that the young drummer and bandleader Colin Stranahan is continuing his musical growth with Transformation. Like his debut 2004 album, Dreams Untold, this one features an quintet (largely consisting of new personnel) and provides all original tunes, many in an Art Blakey Jazz Messengers mode. Tenor saxophonist Michael Bailey returns, joined ...
Colin Stranahan: Transformation
by Jim Santella
Dramatic modern mainstream jazz pours forth from Colin Stranahan's dynamic quintet, with exotic melodic stanzas flowing in many directions at once. His cohesive band interprets this program of originals directly with a positive force. It's a composer's forum. Saxophonist Remy Le Boeuf contributed three pieces and his eighteen-year-old twin brother, pianist Pascal Le Boeuf, contributed two. ...
Colin Stranahan: Transformation
by Dan McClenaghan
Can anybody in this band buy a beer, legally? Nobody in the rhythm section can. Drummer/leader Colin Stranahan is nineteen years old, pianist Pascal Le Boeuf is eighteen, and bassist Dominic Thiroux is just a year older. Reaching outside the rhythm team, reedman Remy Le Boeuf--Pascal's twin, incidentally--is, of course, also eighteen years of age. Which ...
Dreams Untold
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: 26-2; Romaine's Groove; As If The Dream Were Untold; The Arrival; Not Yesterday, Not
Today, Not Tomorrow; Now I'm Up
Colin Stranahan: Dreams Untold
by Dan McClenaghan
"No one's interested in your lack of confidence," the late bandleader/drummer Art Blakey would tell a fledgling band member. “Get out there and play with an attitude."Drummer Colin Stranahan, whether or not he's heard that specific message, seems to have taken the spirit of the advice to heart. Though it's not so much an ...
Colin Stranahan Quintet: Dreams Untold
by John Kelman
"I want to state the fact that my music isn't all about how fast we can play, or how many chops we have, but to get the point across of emotion and feeling." Words of wisdom from any player at any age, but especially telling from drummer Colin Stranahan who, at the tender age of seventeen, ...
