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Article: Interview

Mark Soskin: Creating An Ever-Hopeful Day

Read "Mark Soskin: Creating An Ever-Hopeful Day" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


Mark Soskin listened to a litany of great jazz pianists growing up in Brooklyn and attending Colorado State University, where he was pursing classical studies before the jazz influences ushered in a switch to Berklee College of Music in the 1970s. The various styles and approaches to music went into forming his musical ...

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Article: Album Review

Mark Soskin: One Hopeful Day

Read "One Hopeful Day" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Pianist Mark Soskin has had a long and colorful career. Over the expanse of thirty-plus years he has been in varied settings. He was in the Latin music band Azteca before he went on to a fourteen-year association with Sonny Rollins. He has lived in New York City since 1981, where he continued to mark his ...

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Article: Album Review

Mark Soskin: One Hopeful Day

Read "One Hopeful Day" reviewed by Jim Santella


Currently serving on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music, pianist Mark Soskin knows a thing or two about what keeps jazz alive and well in today's competitive entertainment market. His straight-ahead quartet interprets this program of nine standards and originals with fire in their eyes and adrenalin in their fingers. As ...

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Article: Album Review

Mark Soskin: One Hopeful Day

Read "One Hopeful Day" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Davvero interessante è questa novità discografica della Kind of Blue Records, con due magnifici protagonisti: il leader della sessione, Mark Soskin ed il sassofonista Chris Potter, autore di una prova ispiratissima; una tra le migliori del suo percorso discografico. Sin dall’ascolto del primo brano, il tessuto sonoro si rivela arrangiato in maniera impeccabile e creativo. Il ...

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Article: Album Review

Mark Soskin: One Hopeful Day

Read "One Hopeful Day" reviewed by Chris May


Without belittling the contributions of its leader, pianist Mark Soskin, One Hopeful Day is an album dominated by the presence of saxophonist Chris Potter. It's a substantial addition to Potter's discography, and--following his most recent own-name release, the widely feted if perhaps overly mannered Underground (Sunnyside Records, 2006) with guitarist Wayne Krantz--a return to his classicist ...

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17

Label: TCB Music
Released: 2001
Track listing: 17 Elysian Fields Time Remembered Pals Manfredo's Fest Cliffhanger Un Poco Loco Lefty

Album

17 (Seventeen)

Label: TCB Music
Released: 2001
Track listing: 17; Elysian Fields; Time Remembered; Pals; Manfredo's Fest; Cliffhanger; Un Poco Loco; Lefty

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Article: Album Review

Mark Soskin: 17 (Seventeen)

Read "17 (Seventeen)" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Pianist Mark Soskin is widely known for his long time affiliation with tenor sax titan, Sonny Rollins along with numerous session dates for a variety of notable modern jazz artists. However, with only a handful of solo outings to his credit, the pianist steps out in prominent fashion with his latest release, 17 (Seventeen). Soskin garners ...

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Article: Album Review

Mark Soskin: 17

Read "17" reviewed by Ben Ohmart


Mark Soskin and his merry band of players are not seeking a new way in to the jazz scene, but they know which door works, and they pass through like the best glass cleaner. Each of the 8 tracks are long enough to get into and steaming with what I call bunny go. You never know ...

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Five Lands (Cinqueterra)

Label: W.E.R.F.
Released: 1998


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