Results for "Oliver Jones"

The Dave Young Quartet: Mean What You Say

by Jerry D'Souza
December 15, 2009

Dave Young has had a long career as a classical music and jazz bassist. Before he found his niche in jazz, Young was the principal bassist with the Winnipeg and Edmonton Symphony Orchestras as well as the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. As a jazz musician, he brought his sense of rhythm and intuition to groups led by ...

Hank Jones / Oliver Jones: Pleased To Meet You

by Raul d'Gama Rose
November 20, 2009

What a surprise to hear the first-ever recording that joins piano maestros Hank Jones and Oliver Jones. A Detroit native, ninety-year-old Hank Jones is from the family that gave us Thad “Bartok with Wings" Jones and polyrhythmist Elvin Jones, and he has participated in historic bebop sessions with Charlie Parker and memorable duets ...

Sylvain Provost: Desirs Demodes

by Robert J. Lewis
July 29, 2009

Sylvain Provost Désirs Démodés Effendi Records 2009 If you've been among the very best in your chosen field (of jazz piano) over a long career, there will inevitably come a time when what you say carries as much weight as what you play. So when pianist Oliver Jones, ...

Montreal Jazz Festival: Days 7-9, July 7-9, 2009

by John Kelman
July 11, 2009

Days 1-3 | Days 4-6 | Days 7-9 Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae Charlie Haden Family and Friends / Bill Frisell QuartetVan Der Graaf Generator / Ornette ColemanFestival International de Jazz de Montreal Montreal, Quebec, Canada July 7-9 2009 Every year the Festival ...

Resonance Big Band / Sammy Nestico-SWR Big Band / Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra / Alf Clausen Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
July 10, 2009

Resonance Big Band Plays Tribute to Oscar Peterson Resonance Records 2009 First things first: there will never be another Oscar Peterson. Period. Even so, there are others who come remarkably close to retracing his legendary footsteps. Fellow Canadian Oliver Jones is one, Romanian-born Marian Petrescu another. It is ...

Just a Closer Walk With Thee

Featuring the music of Oliver Jones
Duration: 4:03
March 9, 2008

Oliver Jones: One More Time / Serenade

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 12, 2007

Dopo l’inarrivabile Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones è il pianista più conosciuto ed apprezzato sulla scena jazz canadese. Ciò che più lo caratterizza, sulle orme del maestro sopra citato, è una ragguardevole vena bluesy accompagnata da un raffinato quanto disteso senso dello swing. Jones è anche un artista duttile - anche se discontinuo - , che si ...

Have Fingers, Will Travel

By Oliver Jones

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Released: 1998
Track listing:

D.B.G. Blues; Yvonne; Street of Dreams; If I Were a Bell; I'm Through with Love; Late Afternoon Blues; Without a Song; Charlie B.; Snowy Peaks; Beautiful Jayde; My Romance (69:03).

Just in Time

By Oliver Jones

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Released: 1998

Oliver Jones: Just in Time

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 1998

This could be an uncommonly brief review. After acknowledging that Canadian Oliver Jones is one of the most consistently inventive and technically awesome mainstream Jazz pianists on the planet, one who is at the absolute pinnacle of his typically hard–swinging creative powers on this newly released two–disc concert date from Justin Time, there’s not a whole ...