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Cover Up!

Label: Playing Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Sunshine of Your Love; Wes' Coast; Mr. K.V.; Use Me; Eleanor Rigby; Mitchell's Blues; Cover Up!; Yesterday/Yesterdays; Comfortably Numb; Waiting On The World To Change; My Favorite Things.

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George Kahn: Cover Up!

Read "Cover Up!" reviewed by Edward Blanco


West Coast jazz pianist George Kahn presents fresh new arrangements to pop and rock tunes associated with such groups as Cream, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Bill Withers and John Mayer, in a sense redefining or adding to the controversy, or, as the title of his album would suggest, the Cover Up! of what truly defines the ...

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George Kahn: Cover Up!

Read "Cover Up!" reviewed by Jay Deshpande


In the liner notes to Cover Up!, George Kahn discusses his goal of drawing upon the heritage of west coast jazz. For most people, this brings to mind Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, or the Lighthouse All Stars. For Kahn, though, it means a particular way of portraying the popular songs of his youth--tunes ...

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Wes' Coast

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Label: Playing Records
Released: 2009
Duration: 5:00

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Gnome Sayin'

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Label: Playing Records
Released: 2004
Duration: 05:59

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...Compared to What?

Label: Playing Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: On Green Dolphin Street, Mercedes for the Lady, Compared to What, 5 to Get Ready 10 to Go, Too Much Sax, Woodstock, Soul Sauce, Gnomesyain', Alice in Wonderland, The Hero's Journey

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George Kahn: ...Compared to What?

Read "...Compared to What?" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


This crisp, well-crafted, straight-ahead (mostly) set opens auspiciously, with tenor saxophonist Justo Almario wandering into the studio blowing solo, wailing, strolling around seemingly aimlessly; but you can feel there's a method to his melodic madness. About a minute later the bass throbs in behind him with repeated two note statements, followed by the drums, and finally ...


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