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Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge / Swiss Jazz Orchestra / The Aggregation
by Jack Bowers
Chuck Owen & the Jazz Surge The Comet's Tail MAMA Records 2009 On The Comet's Tail, Chuck Owen's superb Florida-based Jazz Surge performs the compositions--yes, compositions--of the late great tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker. As Owen writes in the liner notes, “[Michael's] blinding brilliance as a performer / improviser...may ...
The Aggregation, Under the Direction of Eddie Allen: Groove's Mood
by Edward Blanco
Trumpeter, composer, educator and band leader Eddie Allen is a very busy New York artist currently leading a quartet, quintet, a Latin/Brazilian group and the seventeen-piece big band, The Aggregation, the latter debuting with Groove's Mood. Allen which claims to have one goal: “To have the listener in a finger-snappin,' head bobbin,' toe-tappin,' feel good mood ...
Eddie Allen and the Aggregation Release "Groove's Mood"
Eddie Allen is a trumpeter, composer, arranger; and author-certainly one of the more versatile musicians on the New York jazz scene. Because of his versatility contemporaries will call upon him for his talent to play everything from jazz big band, R&B/Pop, Latin, to symphonic to Broadway, and everything else that may fall somewhere into those genres. ...
Salongo
By Eddie Allen
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2008
Track listing: Brasilian Sunset; Being Here with You; Search for Truth; Nymphs of the Sudan; Touch; My Little Suede Shoes; New Rules; Midnight Rain; Just So You Know.
Music: The Universal Language
by AAJ Staff
By Eddie Allen One of the most common phrases concerning music used by musicians and non-musicians alike is “Music is the universal language." But what does that really mean to people? When asked, for the most part the non-musician might say, “You can listen to any kind of music and appreciate it." The musician ...
Salongo: Salongo
by Michael P. Gladstone
Sãlongo is a combo with a three horn front line that is dedicated to playing Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music and whose name translates loosely from a Zairian expression, “we come together to create something beautiful out of love." Although the front line players are not natives of either of these parts of the world, the rhythm ...
