Results for "Gus Reece"

Gus Reece

The Brotherman Project

By Rodger Fox

Label: T-Bones Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: U Can’t Resist Us; Won’t Stop Can’t Stop; Elimination Process; Screems from da Old Plantation; Elemental Forces; Subcranium Feelings; Saboteur; Raise Up.

Rodger Fox Big Band Featuring King Kapisi: The Brotherman Project

by Jack Bowers
March 6, 2024

If nothing--no matter how peculiar or aberrant--is undertaken without a reason, trombonist Rodger Fox, whose big band is the finest New Zealand has to offer, must have had his reasons for recording the band's newest album with the country's leading hip-hop artist, King Kapisi. As jazz, like hip-hop, is an acquired taste, it ...

Plays Hone Tuwhare

By Rodger Fox

Label: T-Bone Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Hotere; Bird of Prayer; Roads; Miles Davis; The River Is an Island; Rain; Haiku; Time Out; Child Coming Home in the Rain from the Store; Sun O.

Rodger Fox Big Band: Plays Hone Tuwhare

by Jack Bowers
January 23, 2023

New Zealand's flagship jazz ensemble, the Rodger Fox Big Band, marks its fiftieth anniversary with an impressive homage to “the people's poet," Hone Tuwhare (1922-2008), on the centenary of his birth. As is pointed out in the album's liner notes, Tuwhare “was loved and cherished by New Zealanders from all walks of life. Touring tirelessly, Hone ...