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Marc Mommaas: Balance

By Marc Mommaas

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Funny Bones Jones; Amissirac; Sorcerer's Dance; Solo No. 1; Heart of Winter; Aftermath; Remind Me; Dialogue; Solo No. 2.

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Balance

By Marc Mommaas

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Funny Bones Jones; Amissirac; Sorcerer's Dance; Solo No. 1; Heart of Winter; Aftermath; Remind Me; Dialogue; Solo No. 2.

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Article: Album Review

Marc Mommaas/Nikolaj Hess: Balance

Read "Balance" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes

Any kind of duet, whether jazz, classical or rock, presents its own particular set of challenges. It's paramount that the playrs involved come equipped with some kind of simpatico, or build it up quickly. Tenor player Marc Mommaas and pianist Nikolaj Hess tackle this task on Balance. “Funny Bones Jones begins slowly, then ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Marc Mommaas: Balance

Read "Marc Mommaas: Balance" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Marc Mommaas with Nikolaj Hess Balance Sunnyside Records 2006 In classical music, people distinguish between “program music, which is “about something, and “absolute music, which is not. Someone has probably worked out what would be meant by a jazz version of “absolute music : I suspect it would ...

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Article: Profile

Marc Mommaas: On the Fringes of Jazz and Beyond

Read "Marc Mommaas: On the Fringes of Jazz and Beyond" reviewed by Jochem van Dijk

by Jochem van Dijk

When Marc Mommaas graduated as a Communications Major from his hometown university in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, he rewarded himself with a trip to New York and took his tenor saxophone with him. He hung around for a few months, and knew that his life had changed forever: “While I was doing nice enough in Holland, I ...

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Global Motion

By Marc Mommaas

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: One Way Only, Maktub, Intuition, 3458, Something Else, Revision, African FBI, Copenhagen Suite, parts 1-3

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Marc Mommaas: Global Motion

Read "Global Motion" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner

A note to ECM label head Manfred Eicher: I've got a new artist for your stable. His name is Marc Mommaas, a Dutch tenor saxophonist living in NYC, and he's just released a fine album on Sunnyside, Global Motion. The album features the Global Motion Trio, including pianist Nikolaj Hess and bassist John Hebert, ...

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Article: Interview

Rez Abbasi: Reziliently Brilliant

Read "Rez Abbasi: Reziliently Brilliant" reviewed by Phil DiPietro

by Phil DiPietro

At 36, Rez Abbasi is the latest accomplished and proven musician with a few solo releases and a few sideman appearances in his discography to choose the independent jazz route. Born in Pakistan, raised in the USA since the age of three, and having gone east from west internationally as well as domestically, Abbasi is known ...


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