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Cecilia Coleman Big Band: Oh Boy!
by Edward Blanco
The phrase “Oh boy," can be a statement of excitement, an expression of an event that grabs your attention or, in this case, an appropriate reaction to the swinging orchestrations from the Cecilia Coleman Big Band. Oh Boy! is a powerful draw and the debut album from pianist/composer Coleman's new group, presenting thundering big band music ...
Gary Smulyan: Low Man Aims High
by Edward Bride
A baritone saxophonist who plays like Bird? And harvests more than a half-dozen Grammy awards in the process? That seeming contradiction characterizes the great successes of Gary Smulyan, one of today's most in-demand jazz performers, educators, and recording artists. To be fair, Smulyan has his own voice, but he cites Charlie Parker ...
Farewell Walter Dewey Redman
By Mark Masters
Label: Capri Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Dewey's Tune; I-Pimp; Boody; Le Clit; Transits; My One and Only Love; Sitatunga; Joie de Vivre; Love Is; Thren; Adieu Mon Redman.
Mark Masters Ensemble: Farewell Walter Dewey Redman
by Dan McClenaghan
It's hard to believe that Dewey Redman isn't still around when listening to Mark Masters Ensemble set, Farewell Walter Dewey Redman. Masters and the group--especially alto saxophonist Oliver Lake--capture the soul and sound of the unsung tenor titan on this marvelously inspired recording.Dewey Redman (1931-2006), the father of saxophonist Joshua Redman, is probably best ...
Porgy & Bess Redefined!
By Mark Masters
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2005
Track listing: Introduction; Summertime; Woman Is a Sometime Thing; Gone, Gone, Gone; My Man's
Gone Now; It Ain't Necessarily So; Here Comes De Honey; I Loves You, Porgy; Red Headed
Woman; Clara, Clara; There's a Boat.
Porgy & Bess Redefined
By Mark Masters
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2005
Track listing: Introduction; Summertime; A Woman Is a Sometime Thing; Gone, Gone, Gone; My Man
Mark Masters Ensemble: Porgy & Bess Redefined!
by George Harris
Well, they said it couldn't be done, but he did it. Arranger Mark Masters has breathed new and refreshing life into Gershwin's Porgy & Bess. Just when you thought Miles may have had the last word back in '61, Masters adds a touch of Mingus, a sprig of Kenton, and songs that you've heard a thousand ...
Mark Masters Jazz Ensemble: Porgy & Bess Redefined
by Jack Bowers
In the seven decades since its completion, George Gershwin's landmark folk opera Porgy & Bess has been “redefined on a number of occasions by various jazz artists, perhaps most notably in 1959 by trumpeter Miles Davis with an orchestra conducted by arranger Gil Evans (a touchstone that was astutely reinterpreted only last year by Clark Terry ...
The Clifford Brown Project
By Mark Masters
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2004
Track listing: Joy Spring; Sweet Clifford; Minor Mood; LaRue; Sandu; Daahoud; I Remember Clifford; Bones for Jones; Swingin
