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Paul Meyers: Paul Meyers Quartet featuring Frank Wess

Read "Paul Meyers Quartet featuring Frank Wess" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay


Guitarist Paul Meyers' stated intention with Paul Meyers Quartet featuring Frank Wess was to create “a relaxed, straight-ahead jazz CD," and with the assistance of some delightful sax and flute from NEA Jazz Master Frank Wess he has succeeded admirably. The mix of standards and originals is thoughtfully put together and the end result is a ...

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Paul Meyers: Paul Meyers Quartet Featuring Frank Wess

Read "Paul Meyers Quartet Featuring Frank Wess" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


This record, very simply titled, brings together two fine musicians. One is Paul Meyers, the stylish nylon-string guitarist who adorns the music of Jon Hendricks, and the legendary Frank Wess, a tenor saxophonist and flutist with perhaps the most burnished vocal styles on both instruments. This in itself, achieves a sort of Zen-like Nirvana while soaking ...

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Anne Drummond: Like Water

Read "Like Water" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Listening to vibraphonist Stefon Harris's outstanding African Tarantella (Blue Note, 2006), flautist Anne Drummond's work can often fly under the radar. Her importance on these recordings, however, can't be overstated: she often provides the textural glue that makes the group gel, and the only reason her fine flute work might not be more obvious is because ...

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John Geggie: Unexpected Conversations

Read "John Geggie: Unexpected Conversations" reviewed by John Kelman


Most cities have them: musicians who act like a lightning rod, focusing and driving their jazz scenes. In Ottawa, Canada, bassist John Geggie has been one of those significant focal points for two decades, but in particular over the past ten years. He's one of the founding organizers and faculty members of Jazzworks which, amongst other ...

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Alex Chilowicz at William Paterson University

Read "Alex Chilowicz at William Paterson University" reviewed by David A. Orthmann


Alex Chilowicz William Paterson University Wayne, NJ December 9, 2009 Saxophonist Alex Chilowicz is a 22-year-old senior in the Jazz Studies program at William Paterson University. To fulfill an honors thesis requirement, Chilowicz embarked on an unusually ambitious project--the performance of Eddie Sauter's Focus. A seven-part composition for string ...

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World on a String

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Released: 2009
Track listing: 01. I've Got The World On A String; 02. Eyes That Smile; 03. Plum; 04. Twilight; 05. Stars; 06. Panama; 07. Because; 08. River; 09. North Meets South.

Article: Album Review

Paul Meyers: World on a String

Read "World on a String" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il chitarrista acustico americano Paul Myers ci presenta un bel programma di musica jazz accattivante, piena di rimandi solari che richiamano il Brasile. Al suo fianco troviamo il bel sax carico di espressivitĂ  di Donny McCaslin, il pianoforte sempre ben calibrato di Helio Alves, il basso elettrico di Leo Traversa e la batteria di Vanderlei Pereira, ...

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Take Five With Bob Albanese

Read "Take Five With Bob Albanese" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Bob Albanese: Bob Albanese was born in Newark, N.J. in 1957. Growing up and the Jersey shore, he began practicing the piano at age 8. At age 15, he won top honors in the Garden State Talent Expo which culminated in a solo performance at the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, N.J. This was ...

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Sharp Edges

Label: GAU
Released: 2008

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Paul Meyers Quartet Featuring Frank Wess

Label: PCM Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Snibor; Blue Lantern; In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning; One for Miss D; Lazy Afternoon; Menage a Bleu; Just One of Those Things; My One and Only Love; Who Cares?; I Cover the Waterfront.


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