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Wayne Escoffery: Uptown
by Joel Roberts
On Uptown, his fifth album as a leader, the impressive 34-year-old tenor saxophonist {Wayne Escoffery employs an old-fashioned soul jazz lineup of sax, Hammond B-3 organ, electric guitar and drums. But don't expect to hear the sort of bluesy “uptown" jams associated with classic soul jazz tenors like Gene Ammons, Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis or Stanley Turrentine. ...
Jared Gold: Supersonic
by Chris May
The organ trio, back in the day at the sharp end of sonic technology--electric organs! electric guitars! special effects!--sounds in 2009 the most dated of hard bop retentions. Compare Jimmy Smith's Blue Note collection, A New Sound - A New Star, recorded in 1956, with many new millennial outings in the style, and try to find ...
David Gibson: A Little Somethin'
by Woodrow Wilkins
To read or listen to some of the commentary about jazz and hear that this genre of music is dying; to read with cynicism that artists are either playing music that is 50 years old or they are playing something so “catchy" and “mainstream," that it is a “stretch of the imagination" to even call it ...
Mike DiRubbo: Repercussion
by David A. Orthmann
Over the past several years Mike DiRubbo has made engaging discs for the Criss Cross and Cellar Live labels. On Keep Steppin' (2001), Human Spirit (2003), and New York Accent (2006), the young alto and soprano saxophonist distinguished himself in bands comprised of some of the cream of New York City's straight-ahead players--Jim Rotondi, Joe Farnsworth, ...
David Ashkenazy: Out With It
by Woodrow Wilkins
Some music defies description. In the case of drummer David Ashkenazy's Out With It, words can hardly do justice to the varied moods and sounds of this eight-song set. Ashkenazy studied piano and guitar at age nine and later learned to play the drums. His varied musical tastes include reggae, blues, rock, bluegrass, and ...
French Press
Album: A Little Somethin'
By David Gibson
Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2009
Duration: 05:06
Everybody's Wonderland
Album: In the Paint
By David Binney
Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2010
Duration: 05:34
Nelsonian
Album: Repercussion
By Mike DiRubbo
Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2009
Duration: 07:25
For All Intensive Purposes
Album: The Seeker
By Sean Nowell
Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2009
Duration: 06:52
David Ashkenazy: Out With It
by Martin Gladu
David Ashkenazy Out With It Posi-Tone 2009 The jazz drumming tradition abounds in models for emulation and study, and two such models stand out in importance. For its sheer power, Elvin Jones' work with saxophonist John Coltrane imposes itself on any serious student of the drum set. The ...
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