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David Weiss: Writin', Arrangin' and Playin'
by R.J. DeLuke
David Weiss has been on the New York scene for a while now, writing and arranging, producing albums, organizing an outstanding octet. He's known for all that. He also plays the trumpet. Quite well, in fact. Although he's played with the likes of Jaki Byard, Frank Foster, Craig Handy, Christian McBride, Jimmy Heath and ...
NARAS Voting Members Can Stream the 2009 First Round Grammy Entry: Jimmy Greene – the Overcomer’S Suite Online!
New York, NY -- Nu Jazz Entertainment --a long time producer of high quality audio and video content in the genre of jazz—is announcing the launch of a Grammy Listening Area on their website for 2009 NARAS voting members to hear the first round nominee Jimmy Greene : The Overcomer’s Suite --a new album ...
Jimmy Greene - "The Overcomer's Suite" - Now Available on Digital Music Card & Digital Download
New York, NY - Nu Jazz Entertainment--a long time producer of high quality audio and video content in the genre of jazz--announced the June 2008 release of Jimmy Greene: The Overcomer's Suite--a new album from award-winning saxophonist, Jimmy Greene, on their Nu Jazz Records label. About “The Overcomer's Suite" Bold.... Daring.... Inventive... All of these words ...
Gifts and Givers
By Jimmy Greene
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2007
Track listing: Mr. McLean; Greene Blues; Forever; Magnolia Triangle; 26-2; Blue Bossa/Boudreaux; Eternal Triangle.
Jimmy Greene: Gifts and Givers
by Joel Roberts
It's probably time to cast aside labels like “up-and-coming" and “rising star" when describing Jimmy Greene. As Gifts and Givers makes clear, the Connecticut-born tenor saxophonist has definitely arrived. An inventive, technically-advanced mainstreamer, Greene made his mark in the bands of Horace Silver, Tom Harrell and Harry Connick Jr., as well as with ...
True Life Stories
By Jimmy Greene
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2006
Track listing: Re-Affirmation; Song For Isaiah; My Ideal; Evidence/True Life Stories; How Great Thou Art; Unconditional; A Closer Walk; Take Advantage
Jimmy Greene: True Life Stories
by C. Andrew Hovan
Jimmy Greene came into many advantageous and heady situations early on in his career, and he has really begun to find himself as an artist within the past few years. Now in his early thirties, Greene had made a total of three previous albums as a leader, and while they demonstrated his promise, they also hinted ...
Forever
By Jimmy Greene
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2005
Track listing: Old Rugged Cross; In Many Tongues; Come Sunday; Forever; NMG; You Make Me Feel
Brand New; Power; He Is Lord.
Jimmy Greene Quartet: Forever
by Javier AQ Ortiz
Forever offers a choice of reasons for celebration. Its repertoire, mostly based on music inspired by the Protestant and so-called Evangelical versions of the Christian faith, is a somewhat unexplored vein that contains rich melodic and evocative deposits yet to be strip-mined. Although there certainly are examples of its interpretation throughout the history of jazz, much ...
Myron Walden: This Way
by Mark F. Turner
There have been many notable jazz saxophone pairings recalling the great collaboration of John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley on Kind of Blue (Legacy, 1959), including several very recent recordings with younger players like John O'Gallagher's Axiom, where the altoist is matched with tenor Tony Malaby. The duality and contrast of reed tones propelled by the unique ...
