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Very Early

Label: Mystic Lane Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Love Me or Leave Me; Keester Parade; Pink Panther; A Ballad; Very Early; Powder Puff; Mosaic; Born to Be Blue; Saudades; Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans; Goodbye Porkpie Hat; You

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Octobop: Very Early

Read "Very Early" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone

by Michael P. Gladstone
August 4, 2007

Why can't they make albums like this anymore? A few words that might best describe this project could be: West Coast Jazz both joyous and swinging. The group's leader, reedman Geoff Roach, puts the Octobop musical mission in total perspective. Roach has always been enamored of the mid-sized West Coast bands of Shorty Rogers, Marty Paich ...

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Octobop: Very Early

Read "Very Early" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 23, 2007

What's cool about Octobop, besides the band's clever name and conception, is the beautifully retro nature of its music. An octet is the middle child, in between a small combo and a big band. Smaller groups have long been a favorite format of arrangers and Very Early is very much an arranger's collection. ...

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Octobop: Very Early

Read "Very Early" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 16, 2007

I received a copy of Octobop's fourth CD, Very Early, very late--well past its actual release date--but better late than never, as saxophonist Geoff Roach's urbane northern California-based ensemble does its usual splendid job of reawakening and perpetuating the cool sounds of West Coast Jazz from the '50s, '60s and beyond. This time, the octet has ...

Album

After Dark

By Octobop

Label: Mystic Lane Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Playboy Theme; Dreamsville; The Duke You Say!; The Way You Look Tonight; Relaxin

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Octobop: After Dark

Read "After Dark" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 20, 2005

In spite of all that has been written and said about it, West Coast jazz in the '50s and '60s wasn't really “cool"--no more so than what was being played on the East Coast or in the heartland--but it did have a certain indefinable quality that set it apart. I'd say it was more “hip" than ...