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Dave Valentin: Sunshower
by Douglas Payne
Flautist Dave Valentin is fast becoming as ubiquitous a player as his former teacher, Hubert Laws, used to be. Indeed, Valentin has become the flautist of choice on a great quantity of recent Latin jazz recordings by such varied artists as McCoy Tyner, Tito Puente, Elaine Elias and Dave Samuels. Not as distinctive as Laws (nor ...
Dave Valentin: Sunshower
by Jim Santella
New York flutist Dave Valentin gigged as a teenager on congas before studying with Hubert Laws and taking his flute talents seriously. Today he’s musical director for Tito Puente and firmly rooted in the Latin jazz tradition. Valentin’s latest album crosses a variety of styles, from the modern mainstream spark of “Space Cadet" to the smooth ...
Dave Brubeck: The 40th Anniversary Tour of The U.K.
by C. Michael Bailey
Deliberate. In listening to Dave Brubeck for the past 20 years, I would define his performance as deliberate. Brubeck’s playing is always well thought out and delivered. This current disc makes no break from this summation. Mr. Brubeck swings with a effortless ease that barely betrays Brubeck’s careful craftsmanship. The 40th Anniversary Tour of The U.K. ...
Sonny Phillips: My Black Flower
by Douglas Payne
Organist and pianist Sonny Phillips kept a rather low profile during his two decades in jazz. Born and raised in Alabama in 1936, Phillips headed to Chicago's DePaul University as a teen to pursue a career in education. At 20, he began studying privately with pianist Ahmad Jamal and started playing his own gigs in Chicago. ...
Sonny Rollins (OJC: No Problem
by Douglas Payne
This 1981 session finds tenor sax giant Sonny Rollins breezing through a lively program with special guests Bobby Hutcherson on vibes and Tony Williams on drums. Neither Hutcherson nor Williams were actively leading their own sessions during this period, so it's nice to hear them here with Rollins. However, once the tenor man is done expressing ...
Sonny Rollins: No Problem
by AAJ Staff
Many of Sonny’s later albums are gentle breezes, a spot of happy singing without the tense surge of his earlier work. No Problem is a good example of this: Sonny had made pianoless albums before ( Way Out West, Freedom Suite ), and albums where guitar replaced piano ( The Bridge ), but this sounds like ...
