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November 14, 2008

Album: Tall Stranger
By Jeff Johnson
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2008
Duration: 5:57

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Article: Album Review

Bassist Jeff Johnson has built a stellar reputation in jazz circles, having worked with pianists Hal Galper and Jessica Williams and appearing on over two-dozen recordings for Origin Records. For his fourth release as a leader, Tall Stranger, the Seattle-based Johnson, along with saxophonist Hans Teuber and drummer Billy Mintz, delivers an intriguing set ...

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Near Earth

By Jeff Johnson

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: Three Rivers, Dream, Zen, Train of Thought, Traditional Abstract, The Good Life, Quickening, Gaia, Dances, Earthset

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Jeff Johnson: Near Earth

Read "Near Earth" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
July 21, 2004

The trio format without a chording instrument (a guitar or keyboard) tends to loosen the atmosphere, giving the music a more fluid feel. Bassist Jeff Johnson, joined by saxophonist Hans Teuber and drummer Tad Britton, achieves a compelling chamber-like fluidity on Near Earth.Teuber's tenor saxophone approach here has a clean, clear, bracingly cool feel ...

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Scenes

By Scenes

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: New Beginnings; Scene; Blues on the Corner; Psalm; The Beatles; Rainy States; Nefertiti; Persona; Yesterdays

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The Art of Falling

By Jeff Johnson

Label:
Released: 2001
Track listing: Slow Hot Wind, Castles, Mr. Lucky, Virgo, Bejing, The Art of Falling, Miles Away, Contours, Portrait of Diana

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Scenes

By Scenes

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: New Beginnings, Scene, Blues On The Corner, Psalm, The Beatles, Rainy States, Nefertitti, Persona, Yesterdays

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Article: Album Review

Jeff Johnson: The Art of Falling

by Jason West
December 1, 2001

I like living with CDs. I like to leave them in the player for a week or two and see how they grow. I'm not worried if, at first, I don't hear everything that's going on. Just as long as there's something - a few magnetic bars, a particularly firey exchange, a pregnant moment in the ...

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Free

By Jeff Johnson

Label:
Released: 2000

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Article: Album Review

Jeff Johnson: Free

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2000

It’s hard to be more spontaneous than this. A live show for radio broadcast, played without benefit of rehearsal. The numbers were called from the stage, many played for the first time. (Some had never been heard by their composers!) And one piece is totally improvised, existing only that moment, then captured on tape. Apt is ...