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Latin Jazz Fantasy

Label: Random Chance Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Barcelona; Fast Eddie; After the Dust Settled; Latin Jazz Fantasy; Maybe Tomorrow; Pogo Sticks; Laurie; Wind It Up; 6 for Claude; El Yunque.

Album

Latin Jazz Fantasy

Label: Random Chance Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Barcelona; Fast Eddie; After the Dust Settled; Latin Jazz Fantasy; Maybe Tomorrow; Pogo Sticks; Laurie; Wind It Up; 6 For Claude; El Yunque

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Bill O'Connell: Latin Jazz Fantasy

Read "Latin Jazz Fantasy" reviewed by Aaron Rogers


Latin Jazz Fantasy is the second event of its kind by pianist Bill O'Connell on Random Chance Records. O'Connell is no stranger to playing in Afro-Caribbean style; he played with Latin jazz greats like saxophonist Gato Barbieri and percussionist Mongo Santamaria. O'Connell's Latin Jazz Fantasy features ten original compositions by O'Connell that glisten with Latin rhythms ...

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Bill O: Latin Jazz Fantasy

Read "Latin Jazz Fantasy" reviewed by Jim Santella


With a full session of songs composed by the leader, this contemporary album features strings, percussion, and a large, swinging ensemble that's dedicated to the Latin feeling found in today's popular art form. Featured co-stars include tenor saxophonist Bob Malach and flutist Dave Valentin. The pianist swings hard. As he steers his companions through ...

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Bill O'Connell: Latin Jazz Fantasy

Read "Latin Jazz Fantasy" reviewed by John Kelman


Bill O'Connell has been a busy pianist/arranger, mainly in the Latin and Afro-Cuban jazz arenas, for over thirty years, having worked with artists including Dave Valentin, Mongo Santamaria, Jerry Gonzalez and Gato Barbieri. He may not be a household name, but with a large book of songs that have been widely recorded, he deserves to be. ...

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Pyeng Threadgill: Sweet Home: the Music of Robert Johnson

Read "Sweet Home: the Music of Robert Johnson" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


About halfway through the nine-minute “Come on in My Kitchen," the listener will realize that Pyeng Threadgill's hommage to Robert Johnson, Sweet Home, is not simply a Cassandra Wilson knock off. In fact, it should come as quite an epiphany that this recording is something very rare and special. Johnson's tome of longing is transformed, in ...

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Bearcat

Label: Random Chance Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Bearcat; Voice Of The Saxophone; I Don

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But Not For Me

Label: Random Chance Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Lament; Four; Line For Lyons; Ellen David; But Not For Me; Prayer To The Newborn.

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Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise

Label: Random Chance Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: On Green Dolphin Street; Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise; The Way You Look Tonight; Oleo.

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Ya Ya Fornier with David Murray: Bearcat

Read "Bearcat" reviewed by Todd S. Jenkins


Without the featured vocalist, this disc would have been a run-of-the-mill set by David Murray. In fact, the second track is an average instrumental headed by Murray and Sweet Sue Terry. Unfortunately, when Ya Ya Fornier steps in, the interest level drops even further. The singer is the widow of drummer Vernel Fornier, and apparently a ...


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