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David Bixler: Call It A Good Deal

Read "Call It A Good Deal" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann
July 24, 2006

Call It A Good Deal is a plainspoken name for an elusive and thoroughly engrossing recording. Alto saxophonist and composer David Bixler's third outing as a leader transcends familiar categories. Bixler writes gorgeous, expansive melodies that seldom linger in one place for very long. His compositions favor odd time signatures, as well as changes in meter ...

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David Bixler: Call It A Good Deal

Read "Call It A Good Deal" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
July 4, 2006

David Bixler, a Racine, Wisconsin native who completed his education at Indiana University, has maintained an active schedule. During his early years in New York, Bixler was chosen as the lead altoist with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra for performances in Europe and the United States. During the 1990s, Bixler was a musician and educator in Barcelona, ...

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David Bixler: Call It A Good Deal

Read "Call It A Good Deal" reviewed by Victor Verney

by Victor Verney
June 19, 2006

With his third album as a bandleader, David Bixler, a veteran New York sideman, consolidates his growing reputation as an accomplished, urbane band leader and composer in his own right. Since 1999, Bixler has been the lead alto saxophonist of the Chico O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra. (However, little of this element is detectable here.) After O'Farrill ...

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Show Me The Justice

By David Bixler

Label: Bixxlixx Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. I'll Get the Bags, 2. Mentiras, 3. How Did It Feel Like? 4. Longing, 5. Tenor Envy, 6. Quack, 8. Show Me The Justice.

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David Bixler: Show Me The Justice

Read "Show Me The Justice" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
December 11, 2003

While not exactly breaking new ground, alto saxophonist David Bixler delivers a set of seven clever original compositions on Show Me The Justice. With a front line including guitarist John Hart and trumpeter Scott Wendholt, and a rhythm section including bassist Ugonna Okegwo and drummer Andy Watson, Bixler examines the nooks and crannies of the post-bop ...

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David Bixler: Show Me The Justice

Read "Show Me The Justice" reviewed by Norman Weinstein

by Norman Weinstein
November 24, 2003

There is more than a hint of the late '60s Blue Note sound to this album, resembling in atmosphere something like an obscure Joe Henderson session. Alto saxophonist David Bixler doesn't sound self-consciously retro, make no mistake about that. He has an individual sound and lots of complex ideas, but his quintet, as well as his ...