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Brian Landrus, Fred Hersch, Drew Gress, Billy Hart: For Now

Read "For Now" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 17, 2021

Due anni dopo il sontuoso progetto orchestrale pubblicato nell'album Generations (Blueland 2018) il compositore e multistrumentista allievo di Bob Brookmeyer, è tornato a incidere con un piccolo organico, aperto a suggestioni cameristiche (con l'aggiunta di un quartetto d'archi) o di taglio neo-bop (con il trombettista Michael Rodriguez). Quand'era adolescente Brian Landrus era una ...

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For Now

By Brian Landrus

Label: BlueLand Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: The Signs; Clarity in Time; The Miss; JJ; For Now; ‘Round Midnight; Invitation; For Whom I Imagined; The Night of Change; The Second Time; Her Smile; The Wait; Ruby, My Dear.

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The Miss

October 5, 2020

Album: For Now
By Brian Landrus
Label: BlueLand Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 4:15

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Brian Landrus: For Now

by Doug Hall
May 30, 2020

Low-register reed specialist and multi-instrumentalist and composer Brian Landrus confronted a difficult period in his life and used adversity to inspire a passionate declaration in song on his 2020 release For Now (BlueLand Records). He took advice from the late valve-trombonist, composer and educator Bob Brookmeyer, “book a recording session before you have the music composed—then ...

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Brian Landrus: For Now

by Jack Bowers
May 20, 2020

On For Now, his tenth album as leader, multi-reed specialist Brian Landrus gives voice to the many faces of romance, using as his means of expression a talented core quintet, amplified on several themes by a four-member string section, with arrangements by the notable opera composer Robert Aldridge. While Landrus plays four instruments including flute and ...

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For Now: The Turning

Read "The Turning" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
July 20, 2019

For Now is a young Texas-based quintet—vocals, guitar, piano, bass, drums—led by singer and composer Isabel Crespo. The Turning is the band's second album, following 2018's self-produced Elsewhere and the first with new members Ben McDonald and Matt Young. As with the band's debut release, the sound is expanded by the addition of guest players, but ...

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Celebrate songwriters Abbey Lincoln and Bernice Petkere

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 8, 2018

Many special birthdays in this episode of A Broad Spectrum as we honor the great Abbey Lincoln and remember Bernice Petkere, named the “Queen of Tin Pan Alley" by Irving Berlin for her songs “Close Your Eyes" and “"Lullaby of the Leaves." Playlist Linda Dachtyl “A Late One" from A Late One (Chicken ...

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For Now

By James Carter

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Released: 2011
Track listing: 1. Pasportica Allochtonica (Robby Alberga); 2. When Copy Meets Bu (Klaas Hekman); 3. For Now (Joost Buis); 4. Polderprut (Klaas Hekman); 5. Ameridian Connection (Robby Alberga); 6. Carter Kaseko (Ronald Snijders).

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De Nazaten - James Carter: For Now

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 12, 2011

Le quattro stelle le merita proprio tutte questo For Now che porta la firma dell'effervescente ottetto dei De Nazaten (composto da jazzisti olandesi e percussionisti del Suriname) qui affiancato da uno special guest di chiara fama, il sassofonista americano James Carter. A dire la verità è la seconda volta che questo magico triangolo musicale che ha ...