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Spank A Lee

October 6, 2022

Album: The Art of the Bass Choir
By Lincoln Goines
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 02:47

Article: Album Review

Dave Slonaker: Convergency

Read "Convergency" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
September 22, 2022

In December 1910, Virginia Woolf once observed, human character changed and, along with it, so did everything else. Politics, society, religion, sex, all of it, she thought, would leave the ancien regime behind. And, to a point, she was correct. Within a few years, the old world was gone, swept away by war and revolution. It ...

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Chris Walden: Missa Iubileum Aureum: Golden Jubilee Jazz Mass

Read "Missa Iubileum Aureum: Golden Jubilee Jazz Mass" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 30, 2022

First things first: there is no doubt that Chris Walden's reverential Missa Iubileum Aureum ("Golden Jubilee Jazz Mass") is beautifully written and wonderfully performed by the LMR Jazz Orchestra, St. Dominick's Schola Cantorum and cantors Kurt Elling and Tierney Sutton. Is it jazz? That is another question, one not so easily answered. While there are elements ...

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George's Dance - for George Perry

August 29, 2022

Album: Dedication
By Bruce Barth
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 04:00

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Cat and Mouse

August 26, 2022

Album: 180
By Shawn Purcell
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Duration: 06:34

Article: Album Review

Dave Slonaker Big Band: Convergency

Read "Convergency" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 22, 2022

While big-band albums generally differ, sometimes widely, in tone and temperament, there are definitive criteria by which every one may be evaluated--arrangements, performers, sound quality, sequencing and, above all, the elusive but imperative swing quotient. Dave Slonaker checks all those boxes and more on Convergency, a superlative successor to his excellent Grammy-nominated debut album, Intrada, released ...

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Meridian Odyssey: Earthshine

Read "Earthshine" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 10, 2022

Meridian Odyssey is a sextet comprising young musicians from the improbable jazz territory of Big Lake, Alaska, and Earthshine is their second recording together, with trumpeter Noah Halpern having been added to the quintet since the ensemble's 2021 debut album, Second Wave. On Earthshine, there are nine original compositions by members of the group, two of ...

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Dave Slonaker Big Band: Convergency

Read "Convergency" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
August 3, 2022

Composer/conductor Dave Slonaker probably won't qualify as “prolific," at least based on recorded output alone, as he spends a lot of his time behind the scenes in film and television work—but one must appreciate the level of craftsmanship that he brings to his big band projects. His debut release, Intrada (Origin Records, 2014), received a well-earned ...