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Free "Professor of Sax" Collection Merits a Gold Star
by Mark Sabbatini
As trash-talking goes, getting schooled by the Professor Of Saxophone" is of questionable caliber. But Miles Osland is in no danger of losing face if words fail him--he wields a horn capable of bludgeoning even the most forward-thinking rebel punk in the classroom. Some professors put students to sleep lecturing from the book, while ...
An Old Speckled Hen At Snapes Malting
By Miles Osland
Label: Open Loop
Released: 1998
Track listing: Red Reflections; Interlude #1; One More Mile; Chelsea Bridge; English Suite: I. An Old Speckled Hen At Snapes Malting; II. Coffee In The Crypt; Interlude #2; III. Jazz At The Cliff; Solo Saxophone #1 (Hillside Dr.); One For Wayne; Interlude #3; Peri's Scope; Interlude #4; Watch Your Step; Solo Saxophone #2.
Miles Osland Little Big Band: My Old Kentucky Home
by Jack Bowers
Miles Osland, an intrepid and versatile woodwind specialist who can stay in the pocket but prefers to scramble, unveils a number of facets of his capacious personality on My Old Kentucky Home, from bebop, blues and ballads to Caribbean, Latin, funk, boogie and beyond. Actually, nothing here is as “beyond” as Osland has been on other ...
Miles Osland / Bill Anschell Trio: An Old Speckled Hen at Snapes Malting
by Jack Bowers
As Miles Osland says in the liner notes, Old Speckled Hen represents his “coming out” as a tenor saxophonist (he’s usually heard on alto, at least on recordings). As is the case on alto, he prefers doing things his way, assuming a stance that often is less than conventional if not unsparingly radical. While he never ...
Miles Osland: An Old Speckled Hen At Snapes Malting
by Jim Santella
University of Kentucky jazz professor Miles Osland's third recording as a leader combines his lyrical saxophone phrasing with the rhythm section of pianist Bill Anschell, bassist Neal Starkey, and drummer Woody Williams. Anschell and Williams are two-thirds of Nnenna Freelon's latest rhythm section. The parallel between Osland's lyricism and the well-known singer's is worth considering: both ...