Results for "John R. Burr"

John R. Burr

Night Harvest

By Ian Dogole

Label: Global Fusion Music
Released: 2002
Track listing: Message from the Nile (McCoy Tyner) Orca Stroll (Ian Dogole) The Big Dipper (Ian Dogole) Bemsha Swing (Thelonious Monk) Point of Departure (John R. Burr) Mbira Swatch (Ian Dogole) Methinks (for Frederick Sommer) (Ian Dogole)

Roberta Donnay & The Prohibition Mob Band: Bathtub Gin

by Dan Bilawsky
April 15, 2015

Roberta Donnay is a Jazz Age preservationist, guardian of Depression-era sounds, and extender of traditions, but her music isn't covered with cobwebs or dated in any way. On Bathtub Gin, this singer-composer puts a new coat of paint on the songs of the '20s and '30s, contributes originals sympathetic to the sounds of those times, and ...

Bruce Kaphan Quartet: Bruce Kaphan Quartet

by Hrayr Attarian
July 14, 2012

What can be more American than jazz played on pedal steel guitar? After all, both are United States' cultural products. Yet pedal steel guitarists are rarely found outside the different sub-genres of country music. Enter Bruce Kaphan, a virtuoso of this instrument and a talented composer who peppers Bruce Kaphan Quartet with abundant jazzy sensibilities.