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Impromptu

Label: Counterpoint Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Impromptu; Cats On The Roof; Venice Waltz; At Play; Until Morning; Danzon Allegretto; Bob's Blues; Illinois Road; Keziah; Impromptu (Reprise).

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Bob Mamet: Impromptu

Read "Impromptu" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


No gimmicks. No trends. All business. The Bob Mamet Trio gets straight to the point with Impromptu.Chicago-born Mamet studied at Peabody Conservatory before moving to Los Angeles, where he has worked a composer and session musician, showing his versatility in television, film, advertising and performance. Associations include Alex Acuna, Larry Carlton, Eric Marienthal, Gerald ...

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Bob Mamet: Impromptu

Read "Impromptu" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


The title of Impromptu is somewhat misleading. All three musicians in this trio have lightning-quick reflexes and great improvisational skills that certainly help to make instant magic, but the songs themselves aren't off-the-cuff creations as the title might imply. Pianist Bob Mamet has crafted ten catchy charts in a variety of styles and leaves plenty of ...

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Seasons Change

Label: Counterpoint Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Rise 2. Freedom 3. Seasons Change 4. The Moment 5. Like Poetry 6. Dance 7. Culture Bandits 8. Illumination 9. One Mo Gin 10. 6/8 11. More 2 Life 12. Drive 13. Take Me Higher 14. Come to Me 15. I Remember You 16. Star People

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Afrika Underground

Label: Counterpoint Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. Lament 2. Chapita 3. Half

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Fertile Ground: Seasons Change

Read "Seasons Change" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz


Fertile Ground is a grooveable-high of a laid back funky music outing. Swirling retro keyboards, with earthy variant rhythms, chilling with Africanized islander horn lines and their corresponding non-electronic punches, adding a well bassed bottom, delectably proffer a high-grade melodic and harmonic sensorial buttress. This gentle sizzling group is the type that would engage an audience ...

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Various: Afrika Underground

Read "Afrika Underground" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz


Afrika Underground is a heavily funkified, “souled,” thickly grooved compilation of South African classic acts that uttered their “underground” musical cries under the defunct apartheid system. Hence, therein one gains access to musical material from the 70s and 80s, whereupon funk, fusion rock and particular brands of fusion jazz had their heyday. South African musicians have ...

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Reminiscence

Label: Counterpoint Records
Released: 1994
Track listing: Reminiscence;Advance Notice;Moulage;Deep Shadows;Manhattan Getaway;For Melvin;Moon in Pisces;Portrait of Lucie


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