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The John LaBarbera Big Band: On the Wild Side

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by Jack Bowers
March 4, 2004

Good things, it has been said, come to those who wait. Well, we've waited a long time for John La Barbera, the middle third of the multi-talented La Barbera brothers, to record his first big-band album, and it's good. Check that; it's better than good--much closer, one might reasonably argue, to spectacular. As a composer and ...

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Americana

By Larry Koonse

Label: Jazz Compass
Released: 2003
Track listing: Angeles Crest; You and the Night and the Music; Segues; Changes; Americana; Tristeza; Leisureman Blues; Fax Fiction (50:00).

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Live!

By Joe La Barbera

Label: Jazz Compass
Released: 2003
Track listing: On the Q.T.; Speak Softly; Evidence; Soul Eyes; East Broadway Rundown; Kind of Bill (for Bill Evans); Message for Art (for Art Blakey) (70:04).

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Larry Koonse: Americana

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by Jack Bowers
May 3, 2003

Guitarist Larry Koonse recorded Americana in ’97, then had to wait for the passage of six years and the formation of a receptive record label to see it released. The label is Jazz Compass, an online venture established by Koonse, bassist Tom Warrington, drummer Joe LaBarbera and trumpeter Clay Jenkins to “provide the serious jazz listener ...

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The Joe LaBarbera Quintet: Live!

by Jack Bowers
May 3, 2003

Stung too often by inscrutable contracts and creative bookkeeping, a growing number of jazz musicians are taking matters into their own hands, producing and distributing albums on their own independent labels as an alternative to the bondage in which they’ve long been held by corporate overseers. Four of these artists -- trumpeter Clay Jenkins, guitarist Larry ...

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