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Tobias Gebb & Unit 7: free at last

Read "free at last" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes


On free at last, drummer Tobias Gebb shows great depth and maturity as a composer and arranger. This recording is a balanced mix of originals and standards, from various musical genres, combined to produce rich sounds and vibrant colors. Veteran altoist Bobby Watson and young tenor lion Stacy Dillard take star turns on ...

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Tobias Gebb and Unit 7: free at last

Read "free at last" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins


Like a bird uncaged, drummer Tobias Gebb expresses himself without restraint on free at last, recorded with Unit 7. The collection is a mix of original songs and covers. Gebb is a freelance musician on the New York scene. Having appeared on recordings with Lenny Kravitz and Donald Fagen, Gebb has also served as ...

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Brenda Earle: Songs For A New Day

Read "Songs For A New Day" reviewed by Marcia Hillman


Brenda Earle has a well-trained, sweet-sounding, pure voice and piano and songwriting skills that are displayed ably in this, her fifth album. The New York-based Canadian native is abetted by Ike Sturm (bass), Jackie Lewis (guitars) and Jared Schonig (drums), as well as guest appearances of one track each by saxophonist Joel Frahm and cellist Lauren ...

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Take Five With Vinson Valega

Read "Take Five With Vinson Valega" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Vinson Valega: Vinson grew up in a musical family near Washington, D.C., studying classical piano from age seven until switching to the drums when he was 12. He played drums for three years in the All-County Jazz Ensemble during high school and subsequently held the drum chair in the University of Pennsylvania Big ...

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Ernesto Cervini Quartet: Little Black Bird

Read "Little Black Bird" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Ernesto Cervini has produced a gem of a record to closeout 2009. The music on Little Black Bird reveals the promise of a sophisticated intellect that is serious and funny, inventive, childlike and mature at once. Most of all, Cervini is unafraid of filling a blank musical canvas with waves of unusual harmonic color. He shows ...

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Tobias Gebb & Unit 7: free at last

Read "free at last" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


New York-based drummer Tobias Gebb assembled a stellar cast for free at last. The format of Unit 7 follows the instrumentation tradition of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. The three-horn frontline and three-man rhythm section allows this group to sound bigger than it is at times, while also having the flexibility to make things more intimate. Gebb ...

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Joel Frahm - Bruce Katz: Project A

Read "Project A" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Soul che scalda, blues che incendia, funky che scalcia. E poi, a sprazzi, c'è il jazz. Jazz che affonda. Project A, dove “A" sta per Aretha Franklin, è un album che si appiccica addosso a chi lo scolta perché ripercorre da cima a fondo la black music che più ci piace. Il sassofono di Joel Frahm ...

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Amy Cervini: Lovefool

Read "Lovefool" reviewed by Andrew Velez


For this recording songbird Amy Cervini drops ever so lightly upon songs on the theme of love. The sources are as varied as Jack Johnson and Depeche Mode, covering a broad spectrum of genres, styles and periods. The opener, “Bye-Bye Country Boy," recalls a sophisticate's brief pastoral dalliance. It's a tune that others are rediscovering now ...

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Project A

Label: Anzic Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: The House That Jack Built; Love The One You're With; Don't Play That Song; Spirit In The Dark; It Ain't Fair; Maybe I'm A Fool; What A Friend We Have In Jesus; Rock Steady; Packing Up, Getting Ready To Go.

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Todd Barkan: Continuation and Augmentation

Read "Todd Barkan: Continuation and Augmentation" reviewed by Wayne Zade


Todd Barkan has been one of the most important and versatile producers of jazz concerts and records around the globe for almost 30 years. The list of artists whose projects he has produced reads like a veritable Who's Who of jazz. Barkan has managed many artists, including the Boys Choir of Harlem, Chico O'Farrill and Freddy ...


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