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Frank Kimbrough: Play

by Chris May
June 1, 2006

Recorded with no rehearsal and just five hours of studio time, Play is something of a departure for post bop-to-free pianist Frank Kimbrough. Unlike almost all of his previous albums, it's a fly by the seat of your pants affair with essentially a pickup group, albeit one of the highest calibre. The pastel, vivacious and lyrical ...

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Lullabluebye

By Frank Kimbrough

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Lullabluebye; Centering; Kid Stuff; Ode; Whirl; Ghost Dance; You Only Live Twice; Fu Bu; Ben's tune; Eventualities.

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Quickening

By Frank Kimbrough

Label: OmniTone
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Quickening 6:00 2. Cascade Rising 8:51 3. Chant 9:34 4. Clara's Room 11:30 5. Svengali 9:07 6. For Duke 9:24 7. TMI 9:16 8. Ancestor 8:50

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Buzz

By Ben Allison

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Respiration; Buzz; Green Al; Mauritania; Erato; R&B Fantasy; Across the Universe.

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Frank Kimbrough: Lullabluebye

Read "Lullabluebye" reviewed by J. Robert Bragonier

by J. Robert Bragonier
June 1, 2004

Any opportunity to listen to Frank Kimbrough’s trio is apt to be well worth the investment in time and concentration. It’s unlikely that you will be able to get by without making the investment, however; his is not mood music or background music, while you’re concentrating on something else. Although ever accessible, it is sometimes freeform ...

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Frank Kimbrough: Lullabluebye

Read "Lullabluebye" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
May 24, 2004

Another day, another piano trio. The thought could send a reviewer running for cover. It's such a conventional and commonplace format that reviewing yet another one could be a major challenge. How to differentiate? How to assess in context of all the others that came before? In the case of pianist Frank Kimbrough, the criteria have ...

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Frank Kimbrough: Lullabluebye

Read "Lullabluebye" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 11, 2004

The title of Frank Kimbrough’s new recording betrays the overall sound and philosophy of the disc. Lullabluebye infers a quiet (mostly) airy affair, free thinking and inventive, lighting the corners of trio jazz. Kimbrough has been a fixture at Palmetto for the past several years, being most instrumental in the label’s most successful Herbie Nichols Project, ...

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Frank Kimbrough: Quickening

Read "Quickening" reviewed by Elliott Simon

by Elliott Simon
January 21, 2004

A back-to-the-future 1998 live gig from Frank Kimbrough's piano trio, Quickening features eight original compositions penned by the leader. Kimbrough, bassist Ben Allison, and drummer Jeff Ballard are each members of the Jazz Composers Collective and, with their multiple collaborative projects, have created what is arguably some of the past decade's finest integrative jazz. They are ...

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Still Evolved

By Ted Nash

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: The Shooting Star 2. Jump Start 3. Still Evolved 4. The Competitor 5. Bells Of Brescia 6. Point Of Arrival 7. Ida's Spoons 8. Rubber Soul.

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