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Tell It Like It Is
By Mark Isaacs
Label: ABC Jazz
Released: 2009
Track listing: Minsk; You Never Forget Love; Homecoming; Night Song Part 1; Night Song Part 2; Angel; Tell It Like It Is; Between the Shores.
Mark Isaacs Resurgence Band: Tell It Like It Is
by John Kelman
Sometimes it's better to work on home turf, with familiar musicians. Mark Isaacs' studio disc, Resurgence (ABC Jazz, 2007), paired the Australian pianist and guitarist James Muller--another Australian talent deserving of far greater attention--with American heavy hitters including drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, bassist Jay Anderson and saxophonist Bob Sheppard. But as fine as the relative miniatures of ...
Resurgence
By Mark Isaacs
Label: ABC Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: Walk a Golden Mile; Waltz for Melanie; Three Days of Rain; Affectionately Yours; Chaconne; Resurgence; Pentimento; Heal Thyself.
Mark Isaacs: Resurgence
by C. Michael Bailey
Australian pianist and composer Mark Isaacs has done more than most any other jazz musician to seal the fault line between serious modern jazz improvisation and “contemporary jazz or “adult oriented jazz. I tend to classify the former as the jazz father's and earlier genre traditionalists (bebop, hard bop, modal) and the latter as well-behaved, unobtrusive ...
Mark Isaacs: Resurgence
by John Kelman
After two albums exploring jazz standards and popular contemporary music--Keeping the Standards (Vorticity, 2004) and --Visions (Vorticity, 2006)--Australian pianist Mark Isaacs returns to original composition on Resurgence. A fixture on the Sydney scene, Isaacs has recruited his dream band for a strong program of contemporary mainstream jazz.. Isaac's American compatriots--bassist Jay Anderson, drummer Vinnie Colaiuta and, ...
Visions
By Mark Isaacs
Label: Vorticity Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Visions; Fool on the Hill; Both Sides Now; Fire and Rain; The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face; Leaving on a Jet Plane; Sounds of Silence; Moon River.
Mark Isaacs: Visions
by Ken Kase
Mark Isaacs, whose impressive resume includes associations with jazz greats such as Kenny Wheeler and Roy Haynes, as well as extensive forays into classical performance and composition, presents quite a puzzler with Visions. While it's certainly refreshing to see a capable musician take on popular tunes written after 1960, the album ultimately yields mixed results.
Mark Isaacs: Visions
by John Kelman
Some people insist that contemporary music offers little grist for the imagination, but increasing numbers of jazz artists are proving that's simply not so. From Brad Mehldau to Dave Douglas and Herbie Hancock, new takes on material by artists as diverse as Radiohead, Nick Drake and BjÃrk are becoming an everyday occurrence. Add Australian-based Mark Isaacs ...
Keeping The Standards
By Mark Isaacs
Label: Vorticity Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Skylark; Gone With The Wind; Footprints; Falling In Love With Love; Somewhere
Mark Isaacs: Keeping the Standards
by John Kelman
Following up his 2000 release, Closer , Australian pianist Mark Isaacs turns away from original composition and instead examines the Great American Songbook in a programme of standards featuring bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Adam Nussbaum. The result is a marked reinvention of pieces including Hoagy Carmichael's “Skylark" and the Bernstein/Sondheim classic, “Somewhere." A true multidisciplinary ...
