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Tine Bruhn: Nearness

Read "Nearness" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
March 9, 2013

A curve ball can be the cause of consternation but it can also go the other way, ending up as a serendipitous game changer. Such was the case with the initial meeting between vocalist Tine Bruhn and pianist Johnny O'Neal. Both figures first encountered one another in the summer of 2011, when Bruhn's steady pianist backed ...

Article: Album Review

Tine Bruhn: Nearness

Read "Nearness" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 22, 2013

With the rapid evolution of jazz in the past generation, a simple performance approach offers the benefit of showing from where we have come. Denmark-cum-New York City native vocalist Tine Bruhn joins pianist Johnny O'Neal (late of drummer Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and vibraphonist Milt Jackson's band) and saxophonist Stacy Dillard for a collection of ten ...

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Tight: Johnny O'Neal Trio in Concert

by Samuel Chell
March 3, 2007

Johnny O'Neal Trio Tight BoJazz Productions 2006 “It don't mean a thing..." If Duke Ellington's criterion for meaning were to be strictly enforced, most of the sounds that pass for music wouldn't rise above nihilism. Pianist Johnny O'Neal knows the difference between “keeping time" and “swing," which is as much ...