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Deep River

Label: Heliotrope
Released: 2015
Track listing: Deep River Blues; Transit; Old Country Stomp; Wake Up Jacob; Rite of Passage; Make Me a Pallet on Your Floor.

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Richard Nelson / Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Deep River

Read "Deep River" reviewed by Budd Kopman


The inspiration for jazz composition and improvisation can come from almost anywhere. For guitarist/composer Richard Nelson it was American roots music that he played with his then 12-year-old son who had developed an intense connection to the old tunes and players. The jazz suite Deep River is the result of experiencing this music with ...

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Richard Nelson / Aardvark Jazz Orchestra: Deep River

Read "Deep River" reviewed by Jack Bowers


If the name of this new CD by guitarist Richard Nelson and Boston's intrepid Aardvark Jazz Orchestra sounds familiar, that's because it is the same as a spiritual of unknown origin that has been sung for perhaps hundreds of years in churches and other venues and recorded a number of times in films, once by the ...

Album

Pursuit

Label: Heliotrope
Released: 2012
Track listing: Portal; Innocence; Search; Azure; Strive; Abol Stream; Stillness.

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Richard Nelson Large Ensemble: Pursuit

Read "Pursuit" reviewed by Dave Wayne


Brooding, ECM-like soundscapes and thick, tense harmonies predominate on Pursuit, from Maine-based guitarist Richard Nelson. A student of avant-garde composers Donald Erb and Mario Davidovsky, and a core member of Mark Harvey's Boston- based Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, Nelson takes a few cues from these experiences, and adds more than a few of his own, to come ...

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Richard Nelson Large Ensemble: Pursuit

Read "Pursuit" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


La sovrabbondante produzione discografica di oggi fa sì che tesori nascosti rimangano ai margini dell'attenzione generale. Totalmente autoprodotto dall'autore, Pursuit è un disco che documenta una visione musicale fervida ed audace, che antepone la progettualità alla logica commerciale. Lo firma Richard Nelson, valente chitarrista ed apprezzato docente alla Università del Maine. Un largo ensemble di quattordici ...


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