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David Sills Double Guitar Quintet: Natural Lines
by Mark Sullivan
Los Angeles-based reed player David Sills has usually led a quintet with guitar, piano, bass and drums. Most of his recent performances have taken place in venues lacking a piano, so he began adding a second guitar. The change in instrumentation had a side benefit, opening up new musical possibilities and colors. Having two guitars in ...
Carl Saunders: Jazz Trumpet
by Dan Bilawsky
Septuagenarian trumpeter Carl Saunders, whose horn served and enhanced the music of Stan Kenton, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and numerous other icons, has been a steady presence on the Summit Records imprint. Whether exploring rare Bill Holman charts or crafting a program with a patriotic shine, acting as a featured guest with the Gary Urwin Jazz ...
How to Play a Tin Whistle Like Michael Brecker
by Peter Rubie
I was talking to a musician friend of mine the other day, asking her how her move from Brooklyn to Forrest Hills was going. She said, “I love it! I love the neighborhood and best of all, musically, I'm not running any more jam sessions at the moment, just doing gigs—and practicing! It's great."
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Larry Koonse
Biography Born into a musical family, Larry has been playing the guitar since he was seven years old. In his early years he studied with legendary guitar master Jimmy Wyble, and at the age of fifteen he recorded an album with his father, guitarist Dave Koonse, entitled Dave and Larry Koonse; father and son jazz guitars. In 1984, Larry was the first recipient of a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies at the University of Southern California. Immediately after graduating from USC Larry toured extensively for six years as a member of the John Dankworth quartet, traveling all across the globe and backing up Cleo Laine
Carl Saunders: New Standards
Carl Saunders is one of jazz's best-kept secrets, and he kind of likes it that way. Born in 1942, Saunders is a trumpeter, composer and educator of the highest order who has worked with a long list of jazz giants, from Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald to Stan Kenton and Maynard Ferguson. Many factors set Saunders ...
New Jazz Standards, Vol. 4
By Larry Koonse
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Flim Flam; A Poor Man's Mister Evans; Do Be Do Be Do; A Ballad For Now; Admired; Another Side Of Her;
Baby Blues; Speaking Softly; Diddy Bop; Hipnicity; Dark Blanket; Could Be The Blues.
Dreamsville
Label: Dash Hoffman Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Dreamsville, The Three Of Us, Canto Triste, Scarlatti, September In The Rain, Lonely Woman, Zingaro, You
Are There, Pensativa, Beyond The Years, Sometime Ago/Children's Song.
Live at Jazz nad Odra
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2019
Track listing: Blues for Albert E.; Shadaj; All Blues; Embarcadero; Think of One; Song for Sara; Getting Around.
Natural Lines
By David Sills
Label: Gut String Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Minor Monk; Sync Or Swim; Sonny's Side; Quiet Is The Star; Lover Man; Foggy Daze; Mellow Stone; Nardis; Jones' Tones; All The Little Things; Outside Corner; Interplay.
Lolly Allen: Coming Home
by Jack Bowers
There was a time, and it wasn't that long ago, when women in jazz—apart from singers and the occasional pianist—were seen by many observers as unsolicited interlopers whose impact in what was essentially a male bastion could be no more than minimal at best. Needless to say that is no longer the case, as women's voices ...
