Results for "Kent Miller"

Kent Miller

Plays the Music of Sam Jones

By Benny Russell

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Unit Seven; Bittersweet; Some More of Dat; Lillie; O.P.; Del Sasser; Tragic Magic.

Composer Tributes: Strayhorn, Shorter, Monk and Sam Jones

by Jerome Wilson
May 22, 2020

There always seem to be albums coming out that pay tribute to accomplished jazz composers. Here are some newer ones, three on very familiar names and one on an often overlooked musician. John Di Martino Passion Flower: The Music of Billy Strayhorn Sunnyside Records 2020 Pianist John ...

The TNEK Jazz Quintet: Plays the Music of Sam Jones

by Jack Bowers
May 9, 2020

The late Sam Jones is mainly remembered as an earnest craftsman whose perceptive bass lines undergirded the likes of Cannonball Adderley, Oscar Peterson, Cedar Walton, Barry Harris, Kenny Dorham, Bobby Timmons, Bill Evans and a host of other jazz masters. Jones, however, had another special albeit lesser-known talent, one that is addressed here, almost forty years ...

Minor Step

By Kent Miller

Label: TNEKJazz
Released: 2017
Track listing: Work Out; Visitation; Minor Step; My Foolish Heart; My Little Suede Shoes; SOS; Dexterity; Liberia; T'Sup Cuz; Sisters; Brother Ray.

Kent Miller: Minor Step

by Mike Jurkovic
September 19, 2017

What you hear immediately from bassist Kent Miller's quartet is their fluency and propulsive, surely satisfying, button poppin,' finger-snappin' swing with both originals and standards that holds up extremely well with repeated listenings.I could go on and on about solos great and small and how each of these guys give, take, and stamp their ...