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Article: Album Review

Marshall Gilkes: Sound Stories

Read "Sound Stories" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky

Lyrical strains and muscular machinations are a counterintuitive combination, but trombonist Marshall Gilkes is living proof that they need not be mutually exclusive methods of musical dissemination. Gilkes has made a name for himself through his work with Colombian harp hero Edmar Castaneda, the Maria Schneider Orchestra and many others, but the full scope of his ...

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News: Recording

Trombonist Marshall Gilkes Gives Orchestral Shape to Small Group Jazz

Trombonist Marshall Gilkes Gives Orchestral Shape to Small Group Jazz

Third CD Sound Stories Features Donny McCaslin, Adam Birnbaum, Yasushi Nakamura & Eric Dobb “Marshall Gilkes is the best trombonist to come into jazz in the new millennium." —Stereophile Magazine Trombonist-composer Marshall Gilkes makes a major statement on Sound Stories (March 6, Alternate Side Records). Working with a sympathetic, immensely talented quintet featuring saxophonist Donny McCaslin, ...

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Article: Album Review

Edmar Castaneda: Entre Cuerdas

Read "Entre Cuerdas" reviewed by Russ Musto

by Russ Musto

Although jazz aficionados have become accustomed to the regular expansion of the music's vocabulary coming from the Caribbean and South America, virtually nothing in the history of the increasingly diverse genre known as “Latin jazz" has prepared audiences for the uniquely innovative sound of Edmar Castaneda. A native of Colombia, Castaneda plays “el arpa llanera," the ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

David Berger Octet: I Had the Craziest Dream

Read "David Berger Octet: I Had the Craziest Dream" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

David Berger Octet I Had the Craziest Dream Such Sweet Thunder 2008 Composer / arranger / scholar / historian / educator David Berger, who uses groups of various sizes to adorn his musical framework, has chosen an octet to record I Had the Craziest Dream, subtitled The Music ...

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News: Music Industry

Two for the Show Media Celebrates Another Year Serving the Jazz World

Two for the Show Media Celebrates Another Year Serving the Jazz World

2009 marks another year in the books for the Jazz publicity firm Two for the Show Media. The agency based out of New York welcomed in the New Year with two grammy nominations (Peter Erskine & Arturo O’Farrill) and one Grammy win for Best Latin Jazz CD for “Song for Chico” (Arturo O’Farrill & The Afro-Latin ...

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Lost Words

By Marshall Gilkes

Label: Alternate Side Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Crossover Intro; The Crossover; Late Arrival; Lost Words; Five Nights; Titeuf; What's Next; End in Sight.

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Marshall Gilkes: Lost Words

Read "Lost Words" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

Every good musician deserves favor, and trombonist Marshall Gilkes has found his with the Maria Schneider Orchestra, the Village Vanguard Orchestra, Chico O'Farrill and Machito among others. His presence in such ensembles is easily justified by his ability to blend in as part of the band, and the fact that his technique is suited to many ...

Album

Edenderry

By Marshall Gilkes

Label: Alternate Side Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Puddle Jumping, Shady Skies, Waltz, Lost Path, This Nearly Was Mine, Gilkean, Dissonancia, Gummi de Milo, Edenderry.

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Marshall Gilkes: Edenderry

Read "Edenderry" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone

Marshall Gilkes is a trombonist and composer in his mid-twenties. After graduating from the University of Northern Colorado, he moved to the New York area, where he attended William Patterson University in New Jersey, studying with Conrad Herwig, Ed Neumeister, and Rufus Reid. He became a freelance trombonist and in 2003 was a finalist in the ...


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