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Nathan Eklund Group: Coin Flip
by John Barron
NewYork-based trumpeter/composer Nathan Eklund assembles a fiery, swinging quintet for Coin Flip, his fourth release as a leader and first for Seattle's OA2 Records. The nine track disc is as much a showcase for Eklund's convincing abilities as a composer and arranger as it is for his dynamic trumpet playing. Eklund demonstrates an immense ...
Carrie Wicks: I'll Get Around to It
by Dan McClenaghan
In the crowded and talent-filled lady jazz vocalist field, standing apart is no small feat. Some natural vocal chops, combined with a bunch of hard work and a good backing band, can make for a very viable artistic effort, and there are a lot of those around. But a very workable artistic effort is not enough. ...
Debbie Poryes: Catch Your Breath
by John Barron
Recording a disc half-filled with overdone standards should require, at minimum, an attempt at dissection and redirection, investigating any harmonic and rhythmic possibilities left over after decades of use. Such is the case with the release of Catch Your Breath, from San Francisco Bay-area pianist Debbie Poryes. Poryes' approach to arranging involves sophistication with warmth and ...
Catch Your Breath
Album: Catch Your Breath
By Debbie Poryes
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2010
Duration: 4:12
Liam Sillery: Phenomenology
by Dan McClenaghan
There's a sense of danger and change on Phenomenology, trumpeter Liam Sillery's fourth CD release on OA2 Records. His quintet--trumpet, saxophone, and rhythm section--often sounds as if it's leaning over the edge of a cliff, just a degree or two away from tipping and falling. It hasn't always been this way with Sillery. His debut, Minor ...
Phenomenology
Album: Phenomenology
By Liam Sillery
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2010
Duration: 8:57
Tuesday's Blues
By Idit Shner
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Yellow Moon; Elisheva Doll; Tuesday's Blues; Adon Haselichot; The
Peacocks; Ha Lachma; Lamidbar.
Outskirts
By Liam Sillery
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Prana; An Arm's Length; Black Bag; Blues for Lifetime; Wrong Number; Minor Change.
Chasing Horizons
By Fred Forney
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Nearly Human; Astoria; Chasing Horizons; Meditation No. 1; Fireflys; The Mystic; The Simplest Things.
Introductions
By Ben Neuman
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: 26-2; I Fall In Love Too Easily; M.J.D.; Peace; Riot; Blame it On My Youth; You and the Night and the Music; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.
