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Jazz Middelheim 2010
by Martin Longley
Jazz MiddelheimPark Den BrandtAntwerpen, BelgiumAugust 12-15, 2010 The Jazz Middelheim festival is a weekender that hasn't relinquished its fondness for adventure over the last four decades. Nuzzling up against stellar bookings are acts, Belgian and otherwise, who seek to jolt the expectations of many audience members. The entertaining middle way ...
Jacky Terrasson: Push
by George Kanzler
Since winning the Thelonious Monk Piano Competition 17 years ago, Jacky Terrasson has ranged far and wide from his original, striking early trio (with minimalist drummer/percussionist Leon Parker), exploring formats from solo and various duos to larger ensembles. For this, his first album for a new label, he returns with a new trio, featuring recent Monk ...
Cameron Brown: Here and How! Volume 2!
by Florence Wetzel
Bassist Cameron Brown has had a long and illustrious career as a sideman. He has appeared on around 100 recordings, providing an anchor for luminaries such as Archie Shepp, Roswell Rudd and Beaver Harris, as well as the celebrated Don Pullen/George Adams Quartet. In 2003 Brown stepped out as a leader with Here and How!, culled ...
Sam Newsome & Global Unity
By Sam Newsome
Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: It's Not The Size Of The Horn, It's How You Swing It!;
Birdies From Bayside;
Caravan;
Didactical Dewey;
Go Down Moses;
A Swedish Massage In A Turkish Bath;
Afro Blue;
I Be Hooked On Ebonics;
Crystal Silence.
Leon Parker: Belief
by Wayne Zade
In 1966, the superb drummer Ed Thigpen ("Mr. Taste") stepped out of his role as percussionist of the cohesive and long-lived Oscar Peterson trio to record an album under his own name for Verve, Out of the Storm, a nearly forgotten classic now. Thigpen brought in the youthful Herbie Hancock and the more seasoned Ron Carter ...
A Good Thing
Label: KOCH Records
Released: 1996
Track listing: Rip Van Winkle; Revelation; The Way You Look Tonight; Tears; Father Flanagan; Waltzin Gold; A Good Thing; Ballad for the Carpenter.
