Results for "Dennis Carroll"

Bobby Broom: Keyed Up

by Jack Bowers
November 3, 2022

On his latest album, Keyed Up, the well-traveled and well-respected guitarist Bobby Broom pays tribute to pianists “who have been an important part of [his] musical life." As he writes, ..."many great pianists who didn't need to include my six-string version of what they could already do harmonically and melodically saw fit to include me. Perhaps, ...

Bobby Broom And Bobby Watson: Tried And True

by Doug Collette
October 23, 2022

The conventions of traditional jazz can provide a refreshing simplicity. If proffered with sufficient panache and ingenuity, the music transcends its superficial stylistic principles and tenders what amounts to a reboot of the psyche. So it is with Bobby Broom's Keyed Up and Bobby Watson's Back Home In Kansas City; with both of these albums, the ...

New Combinations

October 2, 2022

Album: Discover
By Eric Jacobson
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 05:39

What Tomorrow Brings

By Alyssa Allgood

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2021
Track listing: There Are Such Things; Enclosure; Should've Been; Memories; This Bitter Earth; Mad About The Boy; Time Around; Bridges; Try Your Wings; Light OUt Of Darkness; For All We Know; Passing Glance.

America the Beautiful, Swinging

By Frank R Lamphere

Label: Late Nite Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: America the Beautiful Las Vegas (Verse) Las Vegas This Guy's in Love With You (Fake start) This Guy's In Love With You Born Free The Cubs Go All the Way Meditation Un Ragazzo Che ti Ama

Alyssa Allgood: What Tomorrow Brings

by C. Michael Bailey
March 25, 2021

In the chemistry lab, solvents are said to be punctilious when they have been completely purified through filtering, distillation, and chromatography. Punctilious ether, if a sound, could be compared to the perfectly polished tone generated from lead crystal when struck with a platinum spoon. This is the level of refinement heard in Alyssa Allgood's voice on ...

America the Beautiful Swinging

By Frank Lamphere

Label: Late Nite Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: America the Beautiful Las Vegas (Verse) Las Vegas This Guy's in Love With You (Fake start) This Guy's In Love With You Born Free The Cubs Go All the Way Meditation Un Ragazzo Che ti Ama

Dennis Carroll

John Wojciechowski: Focus

by Dan Bilawsky
November 5, 2015

Every now and then you encounter a musician who has it together in so many ways, yet has largely managed to avoid national recognition. Saxophonist John Wojciechowski is one such player. While those with strong enough memories might recall that the Michigan-bred Wojciechowski took third place--behind Jon Gordon and Jimmy Greene--at the 1996 ...

Saxophonist/Composer John Wojciechowski's "Focus" Due For Sept. 18 Release By Origin Records

September 1, 2015

Tenor, alto, and soprano saxophonist John Wojciechowski has been a mainstay of Chicago's world-class jazz scene since his arrival from Detroit in 2002, forging close alliances with first-call musicians such as pianist Ryan Cohan, bassist Dennis Carroll, and drummer Dana Hall. Those players happen to be the members of his tightly-knit working quartet, who appear on ...