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Szun Waves, other new releases and some archive cuts
by Bob Osborne
Blurring the boundaries between jazz, ambience and electronica, the sophomore album from Szun Waves New Hymn to Freedom, is the album of the week on the show. This new release is a document of six entirely live improvisations with “no edits or overdubs." The album title is apt, it is jazz, but it also bedded in ...
Ken Fowser: Don't Look Down
by Paul Rauch
Ken Fowser arrived in New York City in 2005 after being raised in the rhythmic legacy of the Philly sound. Playing with a deep harmonic sensibility, often sidestepping traditional harmony, Fowser has since created a sound that bears the pure physicality of the Philadelphia tradition refined by his experience in Gotham. His sound conjures audible images ...
Now Hear This!
By Ken Fowser
Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Blast Off; Here and Now; Blues for Mabes; Still Standing; The View from Below; One and Done; Now Hear This!; Fair to Middlin'; Transitions; A Few Blocks Down; Ready the Mops.
Ken Fowser: Now Hear This!
by C. Andrew Hovan
Taking a cue from some of the other smaller jazz-based labels, Posi-Tone has done a remarkable job over the past few years of building a roster of budding talents worthy of wider recognition. Part of the allure of such an endeavor is the ability to see the evolution of an artist's muse unfolding like a rose. ...
Musician's Past Events Now Viewable at Jazz Near You
Thanks to the suggestions from a few astute musician users, we now make a musician's past calendar publicly available to musicians, presenters, booking agents, and fans at Jazz Near You. Event history can be accessed from a musician's profile page by clicking “Events Calendar" in the calendar box. Example... Here's an example of saxophonist Ken Fowser's ...
Top Shelf
By Ken Fowser
Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Slick; Stranded In Elizabeth; Due Diligence; Ginger Swing; Unstoppable; Discarded; Pequenina; For The Moment; Top Shelf; Proximity.
Take Five With Behn Gillece
by Behn Gillece
Meet Behn Gillece: Vibraphonist Behn Gillece began his musical training during his teenage years. Gillece began his studies in percussion while maintaining an interest in jazz. Inspired by greats like Milt Jackson and Bobby Hutcherson, Gillece decided to make a commitment to vibraphone and composition. As a New Jersey native, Behn Gillece performed regularly in ...
Ken Fowser/Behn Gillece: Top Shelf
by Dan Bilawsky
The team of tenor saxophonist Ken Fowser and vibraphonist Behn Gillece has been steadily releasing music of a similar nature on the Posi-Tone label since its 2009 debut, Full View, hit the shelves. With this, the duo's fourth album, Fowser and Gillece continue along the same path with nary a stylistic sharp turn, yet this one ...
Fowser and Gillece: "Top Shelf"
In most cases these days, the best new jazz albums sound terrific from their opening notes. I audit about 15 new CDs daily, and in nearly every case, the most inspiring ones are exciting from the get-go. That's largely because better musicians and their producers know that in today's world of digital distractions, you have to ...
Big Jazz on SmallsLIVE
by Bob Kenselaar
Since its launch in 2010, the SmallsLIVE record label has been offering a substantial sampling of the outstanding jazz talent consistently featured at Smalls Jazz Club in New York City's Greenwich Village. Musicians who appear on the label range from the great veterans Harold Mabern and Jimmy Cobb to contemporary players at the top of their ...
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