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Speaking of Stan

Label: Hallway Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: When It Matters; Only Trust Your Heart; How Deep Is the Ocean; Sometime Ago; What Is a Buddha?; Sea Journey; Out of Focus; Give and Take; Blue Getz Blues; Goodbye; Speaking of Stan.

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Mark Colby: Speaking of Stan

Read "Speaking of Stan" reviewed by Elliott Simon


Almost fifteen years after the death of tenor saxophonist Stanley Gayetzky, aka Stan Getz, the sheer breadth of his musical accomplishments still boggles the mind. Thus it was with some skepticism that I began to listen to Speaking of Stan, tenor man Mark Colby's tribute to the man about whom Trane said, “Let's face it. We ...

Album

Speaking of Stan

Label: Hallway Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: When It Matters; Only Trust Your Heart; How Deep Is the Ocean; Sometime Ago; What Is a Buddha?; Sea Journey; Out of Focus; Give and Take; Blue Getz Blues; Goodbye; Speaking of Stan. (66:31)

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Mark Colby: Speaking of Stan

Read "Speaking of Stan" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Mark Colby, who may be the finest tenor saxophonist you've never heard, pays tribute to a close friend on Speaking of Stan--a friend who happened to be one of the most renowned masters of the tenor who ever lived, the incomparable Stan Getz. Colby and Getz first met in 1963, when Mark was fourteen years old ...

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Tenor Reference

Label: Hallway Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Beautiful Love; Blues Of A Kind; My One And Only Love; Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise; Riley's Thang; Bloom's Room; Bar Room Ballad; Sabra. (Total Time: 73:53).

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Mark Colby: Tenor Reference

Read "Tenor Reference" reviewed by Jack Bowers


There are a great many talented post-bop tenor saxophonists on the scene today, but no more than a handful whom one could easily recognize in a lineup. Here's one -- Mark Colby, a consistently resourceful stylist who's not more widely known among Jazz cognoscenti only because he has chosen to make Chicago his home instead of ...

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Mark Colby: Tenor Reference

Read "Tenor Reference" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


A passel of Tenor... Mark Colby is best known for performing with the Gerry Mulligan, Jaco Pastorius, Frank Sinatra, Maynard Ferguson, Bob James, Charlie Haden and Mose Allison. In the guise of studio musician, Colby is credited with over 2,000 commercials mostly in the Chicago market. In addition to this professional work, he has served as ...

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Reunion

Label: W.E.R.F.
Released: 1999

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Mark Colby / Vince Maggio: Reunion

Read "Reunion" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Of all the configurations in Jazz, the duo may be the most challenging. Each partner must be unremittingly observant, ready and able to lend support in any and all circumstances, while, on the other hand, disclosing a persuasive voice of his or her own with plenty of engaging things to say. Kindred souls Mark Colby and ...

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Mango Tango

Label: W.E.R.F.
Released: 1990


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