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George Colligan's Mad Science: Realization

Read "Realization" reviewed by John Kelman


Since emerging on the scene a scant ten years ago, pianist George Colligan has built the kind of body of work that some artists don't manage in twice or thrice the time. Appearing on over seventy recordings, including over a dozen as a leader, Colligan has proven that one doesn't have to be stylistically myopic to ...

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George Colligan: Past-Present-Future

Read "Past-Present-Future" reviewed by John Kelman


In the decade since pianist George Colligan emerged, he's established himself as a player of choice for artists like Cassandra Wilson, Don Byron, and Buster Williams. While he's yet to achieve the kind of status of Brad Mehldau, it's certainly no surprise why, in these days of shtick-inflected piano trios like the Bad Plus, Colligan remains ...

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Mad Science

Label: Sunny Sky
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Barbarians (Colligan) - 10:03 2. Earth Signs (Colligan) - 7:06 3. Out from the Underground (Guarna) - 6:35 4. Mad Science (Colligan) - 11:50 5. Seduction (Colligan) - 6:43 6. Thought Police (Colligan) - 7:44 7. Alaska Basin (Guarna) - 7:38 8. Modieidi's Modalities (Colligan) - 6:24

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Desire

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2004

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George Colligan: Mad Science

Read "Mad Science" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes


Noted keyboardist, group leader and ubiquitous sideman George Colligan has applied his chops to the Hammond B-3 with his latest release, Mad Science, which is also the name of the trio he's assembled: guitarist Tom Guarna, drummer Rodney Holmes and guest star Gary Thomas on tenor sax and flute.“Barbarians" is a funk-driven opener. Colligan ...

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Live at Blues Alley

Label: Orchard
Released: 2003

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Mad Science

Label: Sunny Sky
Released: 2003
Track listing: Barbarians; Earth Signs; Out From The Underground; Mad Science; Seduction; Tought Police; Alaska Basin; Modieidi

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George Colligan: Mad Science

Read "Mad Science" reviewed by Mark Corroto


I must confess that I recently signed a petition to call for the end of B3 organ recordings. Not that I haven’t enjoyed the jazz organ playing by Jimmy Smith, Charles Earland, and Sun Ra... just that with the reinvestigation of the instrument since the late 1980s and 1990s the storm gates have opened for John ...

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A Wish

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2002

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Ultimatum

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2002
Track listing: Ultimatum; Ancestral Wisdom; Catalyst; Was it Not Meant to Be?; Shiva's Dance; Silkscreen; Across...; Wishful Thinking; Lords of Justice.


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