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Evolution

By Tommy Smith
Label: ESC Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Woodstock; Easter Island; Lisbon Earthquake; Siege of Leningrad; Sputnick's Tale; On the Way to Barnard's Star.
Tommy Smith: Evolution

by John Kelman
A member of vibraphonist Joe Locke's widely-acclaimed Four Walls of Freedom, Scottish saxophonist Tommy Smith is finally beginning to crack a broader international market. The surprise is that it's taken this long. Since returning home from the States in the late '80s, Smith has become something of a cottage industry in the UK, creating the Scottish ...
Evolution

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Nothing Personal; For Him, For Her; Until; Red-Bone, Netti-Bone; A Touch of Grace; Summertime; Blackout; The Lost Ones; King Tut's Strut' Message to Mankind; Montara.
Stefon Harris & Blackout: Evolution

by Eric J. Iannelli
It takes no time at all to get into Evolution , Stefon Harris’ fifth album for Blue Note, the young vibraphonist’s fourth as leader and his first with his new band. Immediately the music breaks into a sprint. And its appeal is equally as instantaneous. There is no acclimation period, no finger-drumming developmental warm-up, no amusing ...
Stefon Harris & Blackout: Evolution

by John Kelman
Vibraphonist Stefon Harris first came to attention on releases by trombonist Steve Turre and, most notably, with eight-string guitarist Charlie Hunter's groove-happy Pound for Pound band. Since that time, with an approach that could perhaps be accused of sometimes being a little too cerebral and not visceral enough, Harris has released three fine recordings as a ...
Evolution

By Rob Thorsen
Label: Azica Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Would (Wood) You? Besame Mucho; Let
The Rob Thorsen Quartet: Evolution

by C. Michael Bailey
Bassist-led recording dates make among the most interesting and swinging music produced in jazz. Paul Chambers’ recordings for Blue Note are a great case in point. Veteran bassist Rob Thorsen extends this tradition with Evolution. Thorsen is a San Francisco native who has been playing and performing the better part of his life and has appeared ...
Rob Thorsen Quartet: Evolution

by J. Robert Bragonier
One pleasant consequence of so many independent CDs on the market is the opportunity to hear regional musicians who otherwise would have gotten little or no national exposure. It is exciting to find groups as good or better than nationally known variety. Rob Thorsen's quartet is but one example. When he was 18, ...