Results for "Jeff Jenkins"

Suck Less

By Jason Klobnak

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Grafted In; Suck Less; It's Probably Not Supposed To Do That; Lifted Up; Suit; Joy Jam; Lifted Up (Alternate Version); It's Probably Not Supposed To Do That (Alternate Version)

Keith Oxman: Two Cigarettes In the Dark

by Jack Bowers
April 28, 2020

What's a sure way to make a pretty good tenor saxophone-led quartet even better? Simple. Invite a second tenor and make sure his name is Houston Person. That's what Denver-based Keith Oxman has done to further enhance his quartet's splendid new album, Two Cigarettes in the Dark, sharing the front line with Person on six of ...

Keith Oxman: Two Cigarettes In the Dark

by Edward Blanco
April 11, 2020

With the impressive Two Cigarettes in the Dark, Denver-based saxophonist Keith Oxman delivers what is most probably one of the finest albums on the contemporary jazz scene today. Imagine being in a dark room where you see nothing and suddenly two cigarettes are lit; naturally your attention will be focused on the cigarettes and the smoke ...

Two Twin-Tenor Duos

by Jerome Wilson
March 23, 2020

The idea of two tenor saxophonists playing together has a long, storied history in jazz through pairings like Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray, Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, and Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. Such duos have become harder to find in recent years but here are two newer examples. Jeff Rupert / ...

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Keith Oxman: Glimpses

by Neri Pollastri
October 1, 2019

Disco nato da un'incontro, cercato ma in parte anche fortuito, tra Keith Oxman, eccellente tenorsassofonista e didatta di Denver, e Dave Liebman, che per Oxman è sempre stato un dichiarato modello. La registrazione ha preso corpo dopo un breve periodo di lavoro comune, che ha permesso di cementare un'intesa peraltro non difficile da trovare, grazie alla ...

The Jason Klobnak Quartet/Quintet: Friends & Family

by C. Michael Bailey
April 23, 2018

Trumpeter/composer Jason Klobnak is one of those artists who creeps up on you. His debut recording, Mountain, Move (Self Produced, 2013), inauspiciously crossed my desk on its way beneath the laser, where it impressed me as just progressive enough to be interesting, but not so much to be a turn off. Klobnak takes the classic Miles ...

The Arrival

By Jeff Jenkins

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2015

Jeff Jenkins Organization: The Arrival

by C. Michael Bailey
October 15, 2015

The jazz organ trio is such a durable format. It can play the greasiest greens or the most well-scrubbed church music and it all still sounds as if hand delivered by the Divine. Keyboardist Jeff Jenkins, equally adept on piano as Hammond B3 organ uses the format in both parts of his musical life, one as ...

H2 Big Band: It Could Happen

by Jack Bowers
February 20, 2015

As Shakespeare wrote, “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Who would dare argue with that? The point is that It Could Happen,the second recording by the H2 Big Band, is performed by a world-class ensemble. It's just not the H2 Big Band, which essentially remained home in Colorado ...