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Jon Hamar is a versatile artist who’s ability to find a tasteful, unique voice in any musical situation has made him a staple in the Northwest music scene. Hamar’s friendly nature, sense of humor and work ethic has kept him busy as a freelance bassist in multiple genres, composer and educator. I 2003 Jon released a “mostly” solo bass cd on Pony Boy Records featuring his own compositions as well as arrangements of songs that he grew up listening to. “I looked back to those songs that upon hearing for the first time I could not stop singing in my head.” This resulted in an “amazing selection of solo upright works that captivate the imagination and free the mind
Will Boyd Live at the Red Piano Lounge
By Will Boyd
Label: Will Boyd Music
Released: 2018
Track listing: GW Blues
Brown Family Get Down
Shamena
Waltz for Rena
Kujidon
Go Down Moses
Akane Smile
Kumiko
Momma Don't Allow
Unhinged Sextet: Don't Blink
by David A. Orthmann
Unhinged Sextet is a strong candidate for the best band you'll never hear in a live performance. The members of this cooperative ensemble are spread out across the country, earning their daily bread by training the next generation of musicians, with an emphasis on jazz studies, at various universities. They join forces for brief periods in ...
Unhinged Sextet: Clarity
by David A. Orthmann
The mainstream of jazz could use more recordings like Clarity, a recently released venture by the cooperative Unhinged Sextet. On every track there's something genuinely enjoyable and thought provoking going on, yet the disc doesn't suffer from information overload. The sense of excessive exertion, overt athleticism, sanctimonious references to key points of the jazz tradition--not to ...
Unhinged Sextet: Clarity
by Edward Blanco
The debut recording from one of the most exciting new groups around, Clarity documents a boppish session of straight ahead traditional jazz delivered by the Unhinged Sextet, a well-seasoned cast of players from all corners of the country who have joined forces for this dynamic recording. Led by pianist Michael Kocour, Director of Jazz Studies at ...
Two OA2 Records Releases Featuring Pianist Michael Kocour
by Mark Sullivan
Two recent releases from OA2 Records feature piano playing and production by Michael Kocour, a longtime member of the Chicago jazz scene (and a regular sideman with the late James Moody and Benny Golson). He has been director of jazz studies at Arizona State University since 2004. Unhinged Sextet Clarity OA2 ...
Danny Kolke Trio +Pete Christlieb
By Danny Kolke
Label: Pony Boy Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Pass Me Not; Just Friends; Fly Me Home; Drew's Blues; Alone Together; Foop Deep; Order Without Me; Amazing
Grace
Northwest +1: Minor Suggestions
by Geannine Reid
Northwest + 1 is a group of five jazz musicians, all educators that were brought together in a routine guest artist appearance at Spokane Falls Community College in June of 2013, by trumpeter/educator Kevin Woods. Woods along with his SFCC colleague pianist Danny McCollum, assembled a rhythm section of Washington's finest with Jon Hamar on bass ...
Sunday Nights by Danny Kolke Trio
By Danny Kolke
Label: Pony Boy Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Just a Closer Walk: If I Could Spend My Life with You: Near the Cross: Träumerei: There's a Girl I Know: Song for
My Father: Please Stay a Little While: What a Friend We Have in Jesus: Blue Monk: Abide with Me
Hymn
By Jon Hamar
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Tea; Blues For J.P.; Falling Grace; Hymn; The Big Fat Hen; Familiar Friend; Giant Steps / It Could Happen To You; Almibarado; Isfahan; Norman; December; Comes Love.
