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Two OA2 Records Releases Featuring Pianist Michael Kocour
by Mark Sullivan
Two recent releases from OA2 Records feature piano playing and production by Michael Kocour, a longtime member of the Chicago jazz scene (and a regular sideman with the late James Moody and Benny Golson). He has been director of jazz studies at Arizona State University since 2004. Unhinged Sextet Clarity OA2 ...
Barney McClure: Show Me!
by Jack Bowers
While organist Barney McClure receives top billing on this exhilarating new album, he is happy to share it, for good reason, with the superlative Central Washington University Jazz Band from Ellensburg. As McClure asserts in the liner notes, “I was no more than a lucky rider on the bus." Well, a bit more than that, Barney, ...
Danny Green Trio: After the Calm
by Edward Blanco
San Diego-based pianist/composer and educator Danny Green polishes off his third album as leader with the exceptional After the Calm offering ten outstanding original compositions of the mainstream contemporary nature blending a bit of the aggressive groove with a good portion of intimate jazz ballads and just a touch of Brazil for good measure and variety. ...
Rich Pellegrin Quintet: Episodes IV-VI
by Dan McClenaghan
Pianist Rich Pellegrin offered up his first installment of Three Part Odyssey (OA2 Records) in 2011. It's a musical journey inspired by travels through Europe and North Africa. Employing a superb quintet, three “Episodes" blossomed from a first rate collective approach. Pellegrin and his group follow this up with Episodes IV-VI, featuring a slightly more reflective ...
Chamber 3: Grassroots
by Dan McClenaghan
Do different geographies create different sounds? New York-hard and brassy, in your face and boppish; the Nordic countries--cool and reflective, spacious and dreamy; the American Midwest, Chicago and Detroit--soulful and hip with a hard urban edge. This is, of course, a simplification, with exceptions flying all over the place, but distinct similarities in sounds can be ...
Grassroots
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Grassroots; Zosia; Enemy of Inspiration; Lack of Concentration; Tattoed
by Passion; Uphill Struggle; Smells Like Teen Spirit; Song for Sam; E-
flat Stop.
We See Stars
By Jim Olsen
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Scary Hair; Dark Sun; Illogical Conclusion; Shard; What Needs to Be Said; Wistful; We See Stars; Running Amok.
Bicoastal Colletive: Chapter 4
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Un Petit Peu de Gras; Nostalgic; L’s Groove; Woodside; Lower Sackville Blues; Pipe Down; Metaphor.
