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Homage
By Greg Piccolo
Label: Emit Doog Music
Released: 2001
Track listing: Illinois Blows the Blues; Soft; Night and Day; You Left Me All Alone; You're Not the Kind; Red's Blues; Lester Smooths It Out; Blow Joe Blow; Handclappin'; Ram-Bunk-Shus; Port of Rico; Over the Rainbow
Andrian Ingram & John Pisano: Homage
by Dave Nathan
The UK's String Jazz label continues to feed the appetites of lovers of the jazz guitar with another outstanding release. This album is the second meeting on CD between veteran US guitarist John Pisano and England's Adrian Ingram. The outcome is more than an hour of guitar duets, with Pisano coming from the left speaker and ...
Greg Piccolo: Homage
by C. Michael Bailey
Roomful of Blues Tenor/Guitarist/Vocalist pays his respects to his saxophone influences in a strutting collection of blues, ballads, and show tunes. I love the kind of piano the late Gene Harris played. Steeped deeply in the blues idiom, he almost should not be classified as a jazz pianist. His playing is soulful, funky, and rocking. It ...
Greg Piccolo: Homage
by Dave Nathan
It's a pleasant change to be able to see the relationship between an album, the music on it and the way it's played. On his fourth album, tenor saxophonist Greg Piccolo pays homage" to great rough and ready, blues based, honking R & B tinged and all out swinging sax players like Illinois Jacquet, Eddie Lockjaw" ...
Randy Johnston: Homage
by C. Andrew Hovan
Beginning with 1991’s Walk On and continuing through two more Muse dates (all of which are currently out-of-print), a few sets for High Note and then 1998’s Riding the Curve, guitarist Randy Johnston has championed his own take on the mainstream jazz guitar tradition, doing so with not much of any fanfare whatsoever. But with his ...
Randy Johnston: Homage
by Jim Santella
Guitarist Randy Johnston pays homage to nine influential jazz artists with his 7th recording as leader. Johnston leads a strong quartet that has been augmented with four horns for this session. Rich Shemaria’s straight-ahead arrangements give the ensemble a full, big band sound without burying the individual contributions from each member. The leader’s fluid pick technique, ...