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Pete Zimmer: Prime of Life

Read "Prime of Life" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Prime of Life, drummer Pete Zimmer's fifth recording as a leader, has a clean, crisp, soulful sound. The players of the quartet--all top-notch musicians--meld their talents into a polished cohesion. Zimmer is a fine drummer capable of impeccable timekeeping and intricate, though usually subtle percussive flourishes. Zimmer's music, with its tight grooves, sounds like heartland jazz, ...

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Bobby Zankel: Peaceful Jazz Warrior

Read "Bobby Zankel: Peaceful Jazz Warrior" reviewed by Victor L. Schermer


For many decades, Philadelphia has been home to a cadre of multi-generational jazz musicians who go on year-after-year composing, arranging and performing some of the best, highest level music to be heard anywhere. This tradition is exemplified in no better way than by alto saxophonist, composer and bandleader Bobby Zankel. Zankel apprenticed with legendary ...

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Kyle Asche Organ Trio: Blues for Mel

Read "Blues for Mel" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Chicago-based guitarist Kyle Asche opens his sophomore release, Blues for Mel, with the set's title tune, a tribute to Melvin Rhyne, the organist who most famously played with guitarist Wes Montgomery on four stellar Riverside releases in the late fifties and early sixties. The tune is a cool Montgomery-ish ride, drenched in the organ trio tradition. ...

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Classmasters

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2000
Track listing: Rhyne, Rhythm And Song; Watch What Happens; What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life; Stanley's Shuffle; Don't Explain; Well You Needn't; Oriental Flower; Search For Peace; Like Sonny; What Is This Thing Called Love.

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Kojo

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 1999
Track listing: Blue Gold, Blues for Mike and Teju, The End of a Love Affair, I Wish I Knew, Blue 'n' Boogie, Loose Change, In a Sentimental Mood, A Time for Love, Dorothy.

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Melvin Rhyne: Kojo

Read "Kojo" reviewed by C. Andrew Hovan


Taking advantage of the cyclical nature of fads and stylistic “ins" and “outs," Melvin Rhyne is lucky to be part of the current renaissance movement involving the classic sound of the Hammond B-3 organ and the type of funky fare that was prosperous and bountiful during the ‘60s. Of course, Rhyne was around during the heydays ...

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Portrait Of Wes

Label: Riverside
Released: 1966
Track listing: Freddie the Freeloader Miles Davis; Lolita Barry Harris; Movin Along AKA Blues Riff Wes Montgomery; Dangerous Montgomery; Yesterdays Child Charles DeForest; Moanin Bobby Timmons; Freddie Freeloader Miles Davis; Lolita Barry Harris; Blues Riff Wes Montgomery; Blues Riff Alternate take Wes Montgomery; Dangerous Wes Montgomery; Yesterdays Child Charles DeForest; Moanin Bobby Timmons; Moanin Alternate take Timmons.

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Organ-izing

Label: Jazzland Recordings
Released: 1960


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