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Article: Bailey's Bundles

Seven Women (Plus Three) 2018 – Part XI

by C. Michael Bailey
December 6, 2018

Kris Adams We Should Have Danced Self Produced 2018 There is a special significance to Kris Adams's release We Should Have Danced. The recording features Adam's original lyrics with arrangements by pianist Tim Ray, of compositions of the late Steve Prosser, Adams' former husband and Berklee College of Music professor. ...

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Pigs & Fairies

By Florian Ross

Label: Toy Piano Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Spamtrails; Slow Thinker; Spinning Kenny; Triumph of Spectacle; Trip-wire; Calm; No Pun Intended; Until Then; Miasma; Friction; Think Slower.

Article: Album Review

Florian Ross Trio: Pigs & Fairies

Read "Pigs & Fairies" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 16, 2017

As a composer, German-born pianist Florian Ross seldom strays from the musical basics: melody, harmony, rhythm. As a performer, however, he uses those same basics to fashion a broad palette of sound, coming at the listener from a variety of routes and angles cannily designed to deepen an over-all mood of singularity and anticipation.

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Lines & Crosscurrents

By Florian Ross

Label: Toy Piano Records
Released: 2015
Track listing: Arp I; Exhibit A; Augmented Reality; Etch-a-Sketch; Moxel; Manifold; Greenland; Novachord; Venture Cabinet; Driftwood; Rough Patch; Arp II.

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Florian Ross Quintet: Lines & Crosscurrents

Read "Lines & Crosscurrents" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 2, 2015

Although you'd be hard-pressed to pick Florian Ross' quintet out of a lineup, the German-based helmsman wrests as much color and contrast as can be envisioned from a group that includes himself on piano or synthesizer, Markus Segschneider on pedal steel guitar and Niels Klein on clarinet, bass clarinet or tenor sax. If the music on ...

Article: Live Review

Moers Festival 2014

by Henning Bolte
June 23, 2014

Moers Festival Moers , GermanyJune, 6-9, 2014 Moers is a small city of about 100,000 inhabitants at the periphery of the former mining and industrial Ruhrpott area in Germany, about 40 km from the Dutch border and near the cities of Duisburg and Düsseldorf. Moers Festival, a four-day annual event always ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Jazz Quanta: January

by C. Michael Bailey
January 14, 2014

The beauty of having written for All About Jazz since the early years is that I was given one of the first personal columns, “Bailey's Bundles," as named by publisher Michael Ricci. I have used it mostly for thematically-based multiple record reviews, then my end-of-the-year lists. As the years sped on, I began to concentrate on ...

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Golightly

By Florian Ross

Label: Double Moon
Released: 2013
Track listing: 01. Beyond The Sea (Trenet); 02. Speak Low (Weill); 03. Sing Sing (Ross/von Eichel); 04. Moonlight in Vermont (Suessdorf/Blaeckburn); 05. Traveling...(Lackner/von Eichel); 06. Mean Red (Lackner/von Eichel); 07. Cages (von Eichel); 08. Tiffany Epiphany(Ross/von Eichel); 09. Moon River (Mancini/Mercer).

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Front Room Songs

By Florian Ross

Label: Fuhrwerk Musik
Released: 2013
Track listing: Alice In Wonderland; Daffodil; Blackbird; Jennifer; I Love Music; I SHould Care; Let's Play A Bit; Everybody's Song But My Own; Meditation In D; Porridge Experience; Der Mond Ist Aufgegangen.

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Ties & Loose Ends

By Florian Ross

Label: Fuhrwerk Musik
Released: 2013
Track listing: Doors Closed; Tombeau de Couperin: Prelude; Cycling; Une Larme; Running Walls; Prickly Pear; Meditation in D; Slow Motian; Eleanor; Rosa Canina; My Foolish Heart.