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Michael Kocour: East Of The Sun
by Mark Sullivan
Pianist Michael Kocour--a longtime member of the Chicago jazz community, now on the faculty of Arizona State University--presents his third solo piano album. His previous solo album Wherever You Go, There You Are (OA2 Records, 2015) was a mix of originals, jazz and popular standards, even including a few electric piano tracks. This one (which Kocour ...
Michael Kocour: East Of The Sun
by David A. Orthmann
Michael Kocour's solo piano recital is comprised of great American songs, most of which were popular in the early-to-mid twentieth century. There's nothing dated or anachronistic about the ways in which he handles the material. Throughout the record's ten tracks, Kocour establishes a state of equilibrium between a fealty to traditional song forms and jazz practices; ...
Moving Day
Album: Moving Day: The Music of John Shifflett
By Kristen Strom
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2018
Duration: 6:47
Mason Razavi: Quartet Plus, Volume 2
by Tyran Grillo
If “Riverbed," which opens Mason Razavi's burnished sequel to Quartet Plus (First Orbit Sounds, 2014) were a doorway, it would welcome listeners like guests of honor to an intimate yet lively gathering of close friends and family. Such is the feeling of hospitality and warmth that pervades this thoroughly nourishing album. Over this and the next ...
Michael Kocour: East Of The Sun
by Dan Bilawsky
The ease of expression with which pianist Michael Kocour unspools standards tends to belie the greatness of his playing. With extreme comfort and control he lays out one beautiful performance after another, all the while presenting a fine balance between technical accomplishment and creative bent. East Of The Sun--the sixth leader (or co-leader) ...
One Day It Will
By Danny Green
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Time Lapse To Fall; As The Parrot Flies; One Day It Will; View From The Sky; Lemon Avenue; November Reveries; Sifting Through The Silence; October Ballad; Snowy Day In Boston; Down And Out.
Phrases
By Jeff Baker
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Neruda, And So It Goes, People of Paper, Ballad of the Sad Young Men, Harbor, Lost, A Hundred Less One, Salinger, Not Cause I Wanted To, Stay Alive, Don't Worry 'Bout Me
Mostly in Blue
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Mostly in Blue; Wes Side Blues; I Wish I Knew; Ms. Luna; Blue Dusk; Crazeology; Lights Out; Down, Not Out
Moving Day: The Music of John Shifflett
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Moving Day; Mt. Hamilton; Her Garden; The Vikings; Quantum Theory; Down to the Sea in Ships; Iowa; Franklin's
Men/Northwest Passage
New Spaces
By Jarod Bufe
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: 1 Pushing Back the Darkness 6:16
2 In the Next Room 5:22
3 Begin Again 5:34
4 Just Not Him 5:44
5 Basement Reality 5:43
6 Possibilities 6:18
7 Climbing/ Bufe 6:16
8 The Journey 4:51
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