Results for "Finesse"

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Finesse

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ruth; Dark Blue; Lady Bug; Designated Hitter; Falset; Before Curtis; For Curtis; Going To The Sun; Prelude For 14 Strings and Flute; Interlude; In Graz; Happy Feet; Miller Time.

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Jim Rotondi: Finesse

by Jack Bowers
April 6, 2024

Finesse is trumpeter Jim Rotondi's ninth recording as a leader but his first using a full orchestra including strings. The band and string section are from Austria, where Rotondi presently lives, performs, and teaches, and each one is quite good. As for Rotondi, besides playing superb trumpet--open or muted--he wrote every song on the album save ...

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Jim Rotondi: Finesse

March 1, 2024

One of the first pairings of a jazz soloist with a big band and strings dates back to December 1947, and the event was largely an accident. At the time, Clef Records owner and producer Norman Granz was on a recording tear, trying to wax as much jazz as possible in advance of a threatened January ...

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Finesse

By Sergio Pereira

Label: Sedajazz Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: White Lion; Morning Mist; Samba de Outono; Finesse; Quase; Give Me Five; Desfilando a Vitória; Let it Out; Frio Lugar; Dreamsville.

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Finesse

By Evan Christopher

Label: Lejazzetal Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Tropical Moon; Finesse; Riverboat Shuffle; Django à la Créole; Solid Old Man; Songe d'Autome; Jubilee; Créole Eyes; Féerie Eyes; Mood Indigo; Passaporte ao Paraìso.

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Evan Christopher's Django a la Creole: Finesse

Read "Finesse" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose

by Raul d'Gama Rose
August 22, 2010

The epithet “flawless technique" does not even begin to describe Evan Christopher's manner of playing, perhaps, the most challenging reed instrument: the clarinet. His polished intonation is marked by the perfect annunciation of the notes that gush forth from his clarinet sometimes at great speed. His rhythmic attack is so full of surprise, especially when he ...

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