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Ray Brown: A Jazz Odyssey

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 1, 2002

While it seems that things have come to a point in the history of jazz when many of the music's elder statesmen are leaving us and there are fewer and fewer masters left to pass on the proverbial flame, 75-year-old bassist Ray Brown continues to champion the mainstream cause while inflecting his own music with the ...

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One Day, Forever

By Benny Golson

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: One Day Forever, Blue Walk, Killer Joe, Are You Real?, Sad To Say, Out Of The Past, Blues Alley, Along Came Betty, On Gossamer Wings.

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Meet Duane Eubanks

by AAJ Staff
July 1, 2001

Duane Eubanks is the youngest practicing member of yet another one of jazz's famous families, the Eubanks. In fact, the Eubanks family's immersion in music began with Duane's maternal grandmother, who passed on the tradition to Duane's mother, Vera, and to Duane's uncles, Ray and Tommy Bryant. Vera still performs in Philadelphia, and one ...

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Zero One

By Geoffrey Keezer

Label: Dreyfus Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: These Three Words; Venus Is A Boy; Sleepfly; Life On Mars; Footprints; Asadoya Yunta; Fracture; Cybergrrrl; Black And Tan Fantasy; Maple Sugar Rays; Wild Card; Blood Count; Across The Universe; Hibiscus; Letdown/Hypnogong.

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Geoff Keezer: Zero One

Read "Zero One" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 1, 2000

Geoff Keezer was the last pianist in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, performing between 1988 and 1990. At age 17 he showed himself a capable hard bop pianist whose performance personality echoes that of Horace Silver, Bobby Timmons, and more recently, Benny Green. Since the demise of Blakey, Keezer has logged time for Sunnyside, Blue Note, DIW/Columbia ...

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Turn Up The Quiet

By Geoffrey Keezer

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1998

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Tenor Legacy

By Benny Golson

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lester Leaps In (for Lester Young); Body and Soul (for Coleman Hawkins); St. Thomas (for Sonny Rollins); Cry Me a River (for Dexter Gordon); My Favorite Things (for John Coltrane); Whisper Not (for Benny Golson); The Girl from Ipanema (for Stan Getz); My Old Flame (for Zoot Sims); Lover Come Back to Me (for Ben Webster); In Memory Of (for Don Byas).

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The Jazz Messengers: The Legacy Of Art Blakey

By Benny Golson

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: One by One; A La Mode; Whisper Not; Oh, By the Way; Plexus; Blues March.

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Geoff Keezer: Turn Up The Quiet

by John Sharpe
September 1, 1998

Turn Up The Quiet is an eclectic mix of standards, pop tunes and even, Japanese folk songs. Keezer hooks up with hot-shot sidemen Christian McBride (bass) and Joshua Redman (tenor) on three tracks, adds vocalist Diana Krall on three and goes it alone on three more. Krall's sultry, smoky rendition of The Nearness Of You, enhanced ...