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David A. Orthmann's Top Releases of 2009
by David A. Orthmann
It's impossible to do justice to all of the fine new music issued in 2009. So I've listed ten of the discs that had the greatest impact on me. Each one includes the name of the drummer who was essential in making the music special. Joe Locke and David Hazeltine Mutual ...
Michael Janisch: Purpose Built
by Chris May
Since moving to Britain from the US in 2005, bassist Michael Janisch has put much of his energy into collaborative projects involving musicians from the two countries. It's hardly a radical idea, but it's as good a shtick as any with which to carve a profile, and along with his prodigious instrumental talents, Janisch is an ...
Tom Harrell: Prana Dance
by David Adler
Following up his 2007 effort Light On (HighNote), trumpeter Tom Harrell continues to document his original compositional voice and uncommonly tight working band with Prana Dance. Again there's the youthful, hungry lineup of tenor saxophonist Wayne Escoffery, pianist Danny Grissett and drummer Johnathan Blake, with long-serving Harrell stalwart Ugonna Okegwo digging in on bass. The material ...
Tom Harrell: Boundless Beauty
by Laurel Gross
Tom Harrell is an exceptional musician, known for his exquisite playing on trumpet and flugelhorn as well as for the many lyrical melodies, expressive harmonies and undeniably beautiful music he has composed for some 40 years and, happily, counting. Many famous colleagues, orchestras and big bands have recorded his original compositions and arrangements and among jazz ...
Alex Sipiagin: Mirages
by John Kelman
With little muss or fuss, trumpeter Alex Sipiagin has been gradually building a first-call reputation. Since emigrating from Russia in the early '90s, he has played with everyone from the late Michael Brecker and James Moody to David Binney and the Mingus Big Band. But it's his association with Dave Holland that's garnered him the greatest ...
Tom Harrell: Prana Dance
by Jack Bowers
Trumpeter Tom Harrell, always wandering, forever searching for some fresh musical pathway, embarks on another special voyage with Prana Dance, a series of expressive tone poems whose outward simplicity belies their inner depth and power. As he has in the past, Harrell layers his eight plain-spoken compositions with spiritual undertones, none of which detracts from his ...
Tom Harrell: Prana Dance
by John Kelman
Despite fighting health issues that would keep most people down and out, Tom Harrell has managed to create a remarkably consistent discography as a leader, in addition to a sizable collection of sessions since first emerging in the early '70s. Still, the trumpeter seems especially invigorated since signing with HighNote for Light On (2007). A true ...
Paco Charlin: Jazz Frequency Group Vol. IV
by Mark F. Turner
Like two sides of a coin, Paco Charlin's recordings have alternated between modern and mainstream jazz, each imprint distinctly different. An exceptional bassist with the acumen and youthful presence of a Ron Carter or Dave Holland, Charlin has a deep reverence for the art-form--its past and its present--that is undeniable. Dipping back into ...
Tom Harrell "Prana Dance" Release, Tour and Contest Giveaway
Prana Dance (Highnote Record, HCD 7192) Tom Harrell - trumpet & flugelhorn Wayne Escoffery - soprano & tenor saxophones Danny Grissett - piano & Fender Rhodes Ugonna Okegwo - bass Johnathan Blake - drums Track List: Marching; Prana; Sequenza; Maharaja; The Call; Ride; The Sea Serpent; In the ...
Episodes In Color
Label: Sony Records - Japan
Released: 2002
Track listing: Prologue; Talk; Generations; The Road Less Travelled; Send One Your Love; Interesting Times; So Close, Yes So
Far; First Steps; Mysteries of Life; Heal; If I Knew Then (What I Know Now); Yokan (Premonition); Epilogue
