Results for "Compass Records"

The Black Flower Project

By Rod McGaha

Label: Compass Records
Released: 2014

Alison Brown: The Company You Keep

By Alison Brown

Label: Compass Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Crazy Ivan; Rocket Summer; The Road West; Drawing Down the Moon; Under the (Five) Wire; Rain or Shine; Over Nine Waves; Forky On The Water; The Clean Plate Club; Waltz for Mr. B.

Alison Brown: The Company You Keep

by C. Michael Bailey
April 11, 2009

The discovery of a previously unknown species is a watershed event in the biological sciences. The discovery (or recognition) of the same in music is an equal watershed. Banjoist Alison Brown's The Company You Keep marks such a musical event. Music that stubbornly defies categorization is rare indeed and Brown's tenth release (the sixth on her ...

Bloom

By Jeff Coffin

Label: Compass Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. Move. Move Your Rug...Processional (Blues for Otha Turner) 2. Better Do Your Thing 3. Evil Boweevil 4. My Dog Chunks 5. Mad Hatter Rides Again 6. Circle of Wills 7. Hatim 8. Bloom 9. Old Jack Craw 10. As Light Through Leaves 11. Weird Beard 12. Wobble

Jeff Coffin Mu: Bloom

by Mark Sabbatini
May 3, 2005

Plenty of musicians load up on all-star and eclectic personnel for what are promoted as genre-smashing albums. Saxophonist Jeff Coffin is among the relative few who actually delivers on a level most people can relate to. His multi-ensemble, multi-genre Bloom visits Dixie, freeform, world, folk, and other styles, interpreting with an authentic and modern ...

Jeff Coffin Mu'tet: Bloom

by Matt Merewitz
April 13, 2005

Saxophonist Jeff Coffin is capable of so much. But I've wondered why he doesn't stick more to the Trane-inspired post bop, which he does so well. I guess you gotta make a living these days and if having a sound that borders on the cheesiness of Michael Brecker, Ed Calle, and the late Bob Berg is ...

Go-Round

Label: Compass Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Intro/Tuesday’s Waterloo; Walking on Thin Water; Go-Round; Zuleikha; Tall and Lanky; As In the Beginning…; Playin’ the Worm; Only Love; Multa et Mira; Dewey; Ibrahim.

Jeff Coffin Mu'tet: Go-Round

by Todd S. Jenkins
August 6, 2002

The Flecktones reedman takes a trip around the world with this stylistically rich brew of original tunes. Jeff Coffin not only continues to turn heads as one of the most impressive saxophonists in modern jazz, he exhibits some amazing compositional skills as well. He seems to draw as much inspiration from avant-garde jazzmen like Dewey Redman ...

For Joe

By Steve Masakowski

Label: Compass Records
Released: 2000

Steve Masakowski: For Joe

by David Adler
July 1, 2000

Guitarist Steve Masakowski pays tribute to the late Joe Pass with this beautiful trio record. In addition to Pass’s own “For Django" and “I’ll Know," Masakowski presents “Waltz" by Rick Margitza, “Peace" by Horace Silver, the standards “Falling In Love with Love," “Poinciana," and “In Your Own Sweet Way," and five originals. Of Masakowski’s tunes, “I’ll ...