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Lauren Hooker: Life Of The Music

Read "Life Of The Music" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Singer and pianist Lauren Hooker takes chances on Life Of The Music, her second album. She sets her own compositions up against classics of American music, re-works old favourites and uses some vocal shifts and inflections that other singers might think twice about. And thank goodness she does, because in doing so Hooker has assembled a ...

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Lauren Hooker: Life Of The Music

Read "Life Of The Music" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


In 2007, vocalist Lauren Hooker turned out an impressive debut, Right Where I Belong (Musical Legends, Inc., 2007), which highlighted her solid, yet flexible, voice, and an ability to graft her own lyrics onto familiar instrumental jazz standards. Three years later, Hooker returns with a program that largely focuses on her own lyrics and music, demonstrating ...

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Paul Meyers: Paul Meyers Quartet featuring Frank Wess

Read "Paul Meyers Quartet featuring Frank Wess" reviewed by Jeff Dayton-Johnson


This is a very smooth outing from Paul Meyers, mixing standards--both the rather ripe ("I Cover The Waterfront") and the lesser-known (Billy Strayhorn's “Snibor")--with Meyers originals as showcases for his acoustic nylon string guitar. “Smooth" should not be taken to mean “smooth jazz": there is just the right amount of edge in the musicians' interaction to ...

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Paul Meyers: Paul Meyers Quartet featuring Frank Wess

Read "Paul Meyers Quartet featuring Frank Wess" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Guitarist Paul Meyers' stated intention with Paul Meyers Quartet featuring Frank Wess was to create “a relaxed, straight-ahead jazz CD," and with the assistance of some delightful sax and flute from NEA Jazz Master Frank Wess he has succeeded admirably. The mix of standards and originals is thoughtfully put together and the end result is a ...

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Paul Meyers: Paul Meyers Quartet Featuring Frank Wess

Read "Paul Meyers Quartet Featuring Frank Wess" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


This record, very simply titled, brings together two fine musicians. One is Paul Meyers, the stylish nylon-string guitarist who adorns the music of Jon Hendricks, and the legendary Frank Wess, a tenor saxophonist and flutist with perhaps the most burnished vocal styles on both instruments. This in itself, achieves a sort of Zen-like Nirvana while soaking ...

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Grupo Yanqui Rides Again

Label: Miles High Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Tones for Jones Bones; The Unabonger; The Chick from Panama; If Woody Had Gone Right to the Police...; El Vaquero Numero Cinco; The Kid from Albuquerque; Chelsea Bridge; PoMoAfroMoFoJoIntro; PoMoAfroMoFoJo.

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Shape Shifter

Label: Miles High Records
Released: 2009

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Bennett Paster & Gregory Ryan: Grupo Yanqui Rides Again

Read "Grupo Yanqui Rides Again" reviewed by John Barron


A shared love for Latin music is what drives the partnership headed by pianist Bennett Paster and acoustic/electric bassist Gregory Ryan, known as Grupo Yanqui. Formed in 2001, the like-minded associates combine the musical influences of Afro-Cuban and Brazilian rhythms with an American jazz perspective. Grupo Yanqui Rides Again, the ensemble's second release, features clever composing ...

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Grupo Yanqui Rides Again

Label: Miles High Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Tones for Joan's Bones; The Unabonger; The Chick From Panama; If Woody Had Gone Right To The Police...; El Vaquero Numero Cinco; The Kid From Albuquerque; Chelsea Bridge; Pomoafromofojo intro; Pomoafromofojo.


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