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Season Of Renewal

Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2003

Album

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. East St. Louis Toodle-oo 2. Shaw Nuff 3. Light Blue 4. Whirlwind Soldier 5. Summertime 6. Milton On Ebony 7. Single Petal Of A Rose, The 8. Bernie's Tune 9. St. Louis Blues

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Article: Interview

A Fireside Chat With Greg Osby

by AAJ Staff
November 29, 2003

Every so often, Greg Osby goes through a ronin phase. He hermits himself from the public microscope and works on his craft. With great introspection and exploration, Osby returns with a renewed sense of artistry that kicks my ass. Oz's latest release, Inner Circle, has been lauded as his “best" by many. ...

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Article: Live Review

Capitol Jazz: Osby Returns to D.C.

by Franz A. Matzner
October 23, 2003

Kennedy Center Jazz Club Washington, D.C. October 16, 2003 Taking the stage last week with quite a different line-up than appeared on his latest release, Greg Osby illustrated just how far the Kennedy Center Jazz Club has come since opening its doors to small venue style jazz performance. Only ...

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Article: Album Review

Greg Osby: St. Louis Shoes

Read "St. Louis Shoes" reviewed by Franz A. Matzner

by Franz A. Matzner
October 8, 2003

It takes time to assess St. Louis Shoes. In fact, to wax intellectual about the process, it requires the exegetical approach usually reserved for vast, inter-textual novels like Dr. Faustus or Gravity's Rainbow. Each encounter reveals ever new intrigues, insights, and moments of grace. And just like with Faust, you?d better go back to the source ...

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Greg Osby: St. Louis Shoes

Read "St. Louis Shoes" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
June 25, 2003

From the jazz sounds of his birthplace in St Louis to his present home in New York, the new recording St. Louis Shoes allows the listener to musically walk in the footsteps of one today’s most distinctive jazz saxophonists: Greg Osby. The nine compositions chronicle different composers and styles that have influenced the artist. As on ...

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Article: Interview

Greg Osby: Q & A

by AAJ Staff
February 28, 2003

Saxophonist Greg Osby is a musician who doesn't believe in standing still. Born in St. Louis in 1960, Osby became one of the founders of the influential, innovative M-Base musical collective in New York City in the late 1980s. Osby has also produced one of the most interesting,diverse series of recordings in jazz over the past ...

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Inner Circle

By Greg Osby

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1:Entruption 2:Stride Logic 3:Diary Of The Same Dream 4:Equalatogram 5:All Neon Like 6:Fragmatic Decoding 7:The Inner Circle Principle 8:Sons Of The Confidential 9:Self-Portrait In Three Colors

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Symbols of Light (A Solution)

By Greg Osby

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1. 3 for Civility 2. Repay in Kind 3. "M" 4. Keep 5. Golden Sunset 6. This Is Bliss 7. One Room 8. Northbound 9. Wild Is the Wind 10. Social Order 11. Minstrale Again (the Barefoot Tap Dance)

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Greg Osby: Symbols of Light (A Solution)

Read "Symbols of Light (A Solution)" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
October 15, 2002

I love any kind of string-driven thing. From guitars to fiddles...it’s all good. So I was pleasantly surprised to find this alto player accompanied by his rhythm section and a spry string quartet. Saxophonist Greg Osby puts together a unique gathering of sounds as he harnesses (or is it – unleashes) seven musicians of quality and ...