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Oscar Laven

The Brotherman Project

By Rodger Fox

Label: T-Bones Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: U Can’t Resist Us; Won’t Stop Can’t Stop; Elimination Process; Screems from da Old Plantation; Elemental Forces; Subcranium Feelings; Saboteur; Raise Up.

Rodger Fox Big Band Featuring King Kapisi: The Brotherman Project

by Jack Bowers
March 6, 2024

If nothing--no matter how peculiar or aberrant--is undertaken without a reason, trombonist Rodger Fox, whose big band is the finest New Zealand has to offer, must have had his reasons for recording the band's newest album with the country's leading hip-hop artist, King Kapisi. As jazz, like hip-hop, is an acquired taste, it ...

Plays Hone Tuwhare

By Rodger Fox

Label: T-Bone Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Hotere; Bird of Prayer; Roads; Miles Davis; The River Is an Island; Rain; Haiku; Time Out; Child Coming Home in the Rain from the Store; Sun O.

Rodger Fox Big Band: Plays Hone Tuwhare

by Jack Bowers
January 23, 2023

New Zealand's flagship jazz ensemble, the Rodger Fox Big Band, marks its fiftieth anniversary with an impressive homage to “the people's poet," Hone Tuwhare (1922-2008), on the centenary of his birth. As is pointed out in the album's liner notes, Tuwhare “was loved and cherished by New Zealanders from all walks of life. Touring tirelessly, Hone ...

Reimagined! The Roger Fox big Band Plays Sir Dave Dobbyn

By Rodger Fox

Label: T-Bones Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Bliss; Love You Like I Should; Be Mine Tonight; A Bridge on Fire; Magic (What She Do); Loyal; Walking in Light; Just Add Water; Welcome Home; Outlook for Thursday; Slice of Heaven.

Reed Rapture With Ivo and Joe

by Bob Osborne
December 1, 2022

This edition of the show includes music from the massive new box set from Ivo Perelman—a suite of 12 recordings of saxophone duets Reed Rapture In Brooklyn—which I will be featuring over the next 12 weeks—I'm kicking off with Ivo's partnership with Joe Lovano. In addition a selection of music from across Joe's career plus new ...

The Rodger Fox Big Band: Reimagined! The Roger Fox big Band Plays Sir Dave Dobbyn

by Jack Bowers
June 15, 2022

On Reimagined!, New Zealander Rodger Fox's superlative big band takes a fresh look at the music of Sir Dave Dobbyn, one of that country's most honored and beloved musicians. Although Dobbyn has spent his celebrated career in the fields of pop and rock, his evocative compositions lend themselves well to light and swinging interpretations by Fox's ...

Rodger Fox Big Band: You Gotta Know

by Jack Bowers
January 6, 2022

As trombonist Rodger Fox's superb New Zealand-based big band thunders toward its golden anniversary in 2023, the recordings keep coming. Here are two more, the first (Live) taped in October 2020 during what must have been a much longer concert at the Bruce Mason Centre in Auckland; the second, You Gotta Know, recorded that same year ...

Plays New Zealand

By Rodger Fox

Label: TBone Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Resolute; Taranaki; Stretchin’ with Gretchen; One Step Ahead of the Blues; Alife; Remembering; Caribbean Cruise; H.M.S. Grand Motorboat of the Seas.