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Volition
By Dave Ballou
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Antonio and Angelica, Wish
Dave Ballou: Volition
by C. Andrew Hovan
In his liner notes to this, the second date as a leader from trumpeter Dave Ballou, writer Mark Gardner sagaciously mentions Tim Hagan, John Swana, and Tom Williams among the talented crew of trumpeters who emerged during the early ‘90s. Of course, Ballou also fits into this group and each of these four men have in ...
Dave Ballou: Amongst Ourselves
by C. Michael Bailey
Free-Garde. Free jazz and avant-garde styles were the same evolutionary answer to bebop that bebop was to swing. Both movements represented a loosening of the previous genre's harmonic constraints, exploring the near accepted and the taboo. To our ears today, the sound of early Ornette Coleman's (pre-Free Jazz) Atlantic recordings does not sound so strange. Miles ...
Dave Ballou: Amongst Ourselves
by C. Michael Bailey
Free-Garde. Free Jazz and Avant-garde were the same evolutionary answer to Bebop that Bebop was to Swing. Both movements represented a loosening of the previous genre’s harmonic constraints, exploring the near accepted and the taboo. To our ears today, the sound of early Ornette Coleman’s (pre- Free Jazz ) Atlantic recordings does not sound so strange. ...
Amongst Ourselves
By Dave Ballou
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: All About Joey, Blake's Vision, Amongst Ourselves, Phone Queen, Boom Boom, The Great Matter, 7.5, Line, J.W., Bidu, Skuds (66:22)
Dave Ballou: Amongst Ourselves
by C. Andrew Hovan
While it may be unfair to the musicians involved to make comparisons to others, it often aids in better defining a chosen player's given point of departure. With that said, let it be known that trumpeter Dave Ballou is a remarkable new discovery whose playing falls in the same general orbit of such forward-thinking men as ...
