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Ezra Weiss Sextet: Before You Know It [Live In Portland]
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by Dave Wayne
On Before You Know It, pianist / composer Ezra Weiss provides convincing evidence for the continued health and well-being of good old, straight ahead, gimmick-free modern acoustic jazz. The archetype for Weiss' beefy band and punchy charts would include Art Blakey's expanded Jazz Messenger lineups, some of McCoy Tyner's larger groups from the early-to-late 1970s, or ...
Before You Know It [Live In Portland]
By Ezra Weiss
Label: Roark Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Winter Machine; The Crusher; Don't Need No Ticket; A Foggy Day; Jessie's Song; The Five A. M. Strut; Alabama; EZ Introduces The Band; Before You Know It.
Ezra Weiss Sextet: Before You Know It [Live In Portland]
by Edward Blanco
Portland State University professor Ezra Weiss is a prominent pianist and composer in his own right who has several recordings to his credit and is a three-time winner of the prestigious ASCAP Young Composer Award. A traditionalist who prefers the straight ahead and modern jazz styles, Weiss delivers another gem on Before You Know It [Live ...
Ezra Weiss Sextet: Before You Know It [Live In Portland]
by Bruce Lindsay
Recorded over two nights in Portland's Ivories Jazz Lounge during late-2013, Before You Know It [Live In Portland] is pianist and composer Ezra Weiss' seventh album and his first live recording. Weiss' previous releases have featured big bands (Our Path To This Moment [Roark Records, 2012]) and trios (The Shirley Horn Suite [Roark Records, ...
Our Path to This Moment
By Ezra Weiss
Label: Stretch Records/Universal Classics and Jazz Japan
Released: 2013
Track listing:
1. Our Path to This Moment; 2. Rise and Fall; 3. It's Your or No One; 4. Kulangeta; 5. The Promise; 6. Jessie's Song; 7. Wayfaring Stranger.
Ezra Weiss and The Rob Scheps Big Band: Our Path to This Moment
by AAJ Italy Staff
La prova orchestrale per un compositore di jazz è una meta ambita, un cimento, ma anche un rischio. Per i motivi più vari, da un certo momento in poi la letteratura per big band è entrata in un periodo di stanca, dal quale sempre più raramente sono emerse composizioni davvero innovative. Le difficoltà di gestione di ...
Dave Brubeck: Small Groups, Large Stature
by Jack Bowers
Dave Brubeck wasn't really a big-band kinda guy; in fact, he was seldom seen in groups larger than four or five. On the other hand, he was an extraordinary musician, one whose influence will no doubt be felt for generations to come. Brubeck, who remained active almost to the end of his life, died December 5 ...
Our Path To This Moment
By Ezra Weiss
Label: Roark Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Our Path To This Moment; Rise And Fall; It's You Or No One; Kunlangeta; The Promise; Jessie's Song; Wayfaring Stranger.
Ezra Weiss and The Rob Scheps Big Band: Our Path To This Moment
by Edward Blanco
A veteran jazz artist and educator, Oregon-based Ezra Weiss is much more than a fine pianist; he is a talented composer and arranger nominated for Best Arranger under the Rising Star category of Downbeat Magazine's 60th Annual Critics Poll of 2012. Since graduating from the country's oldest music school (Ohio's Oberlin Conservatory of Music), Weiss has ...
The Shirley Horn Suite
By Ezra Weiss
Label: Roark Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: I Wish I'd Met You; The Great City; Shirley Horn's Sound Of Love; Blues For Shirley; I Love You Porgy; Now That You Mention It; Estate; Something Happens To Me; May The Most You Wish For.
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