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One For All: Upward and Onward

by C. Andrew Hovan
February 1, 2000

The economic constraints of keeping a jazz ensemble together are such that we've almost seen the disappearance of working bands. That is indeed a grievous situation since the jazz pedigree has so often been marked by historically-important groups. Just consider the Basie and Ellington bands, not to mention the classic John Coltrane Quartet and several premium ...

One For All

By Kazumi Watanabe

Label: DOMO
Released: 1999
Track listing: Havana; Water Ways Flow Backward Again; Libertango; Somewhere; Afro Blue; One For All; Milestones;

Too Soon to Tell

By One for All

Label: Sharp Nine Records
Released: 1998

Optimism

By One for All

Label: Sharp Nine Records
Released: 1998
Track listing:

Optimism; Stranger in Moscow; Straight Up; All for One; Pearl's; Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most; What Kind of Fool Am I?; The Prevaricator; These Foolish Things (70:07).

One for All: Too Soon to Tell

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 1998

Having reviewed last month Optimism, the second Sharp Nine release by One for All, the New York–based co–op sextet patterned after Art Blakey’s celebrated Jazz Messengers, we must beg your indulgence as we backtrack a year to appraise its debut session, recorded in February ’97 by the eminent Rudy Van Gelder (whose apparently escalating faith in ...

One for All: Too Soon to Tell

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 1998

Having reviewed last month Optimism, the second Sharp Nine release by One for All, the New York–based co–op sextet patterned after Art Blakey’s celebrated Jazz Messengers, we must beg your indulgence as we backtrack a year to appraise its debut session, recorded in February ’97 by the eminent Rudy Van Gelder (whose apparently escalating faith in ...

One for All: Optimism

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 1998

Confidence. It's a quality too often overlooked, but one that is nonetheless essential in Jazz, as it enables a musician - or a group - to take chances, to go all-out and run the race at top speed without any fear of stumbling or falling flat on one's face. You can hear that confidence in Miles ...

One for All: Optimism

by Joel Roberts
July 1, 1998

This is the second album by One for All, an all-star group of young jazz veterans totally steeped in the hard bop tradition and group dynamic of the classic ensembles of Art Blakey and Horace Silver. Eric Alexander, the rising tenor sax phenom, and Peter Washington, the talented and ubiquitous bassist, are probably the best known ...