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News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 3, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 4 — Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 290 218 +72 9 54 1 2 2 5 1 Christian McBride & Inside Straight Kind Of Brown (Mack Avenue) 268 211 +57 0 71 1 8 3 1 3 Joe Locke & David Hazeltine Mutual Admiration Society ...

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News: Radio

JazzWeek Radio Chart: July 27, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 3 4 Joe Locke & David Hazeltine Mutual Admiration Society 2 (Sharp Nine) 238 218 +20 2 57 1 6 2 6 23 Grant Stewart Grant Stewart Plays The Music Of Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn (Sharp Nine) 225 183 +42 0 48 2 8 ...

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Article: Album Review

Rob Thorsen: Lasting Impression

Read "Lasting Impression" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza

Bassist Rob Thorsen became interested in jazz when he heard Dave Brubeck, Cannonball Adderley and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The acoustic bass, which he discovered when he was in his twenties, became his instrument of choice as he began his career as a performer on a cruise ship. On Lasting Impression, his fourth CD as leader, Thorsen ...

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Article: Album Review

Rob Thorsen: Lasting Impression

Read "Lasting Impression" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan

San Diego-based bassist Rob Thorsen seems to be shining up a '50's-'60's jazz classics lesson with the first four cuts on Lasting Impression. The set opens with Charlie Parker's “Dexterity," a crisp, jaunty take on the classic, with Gilbert Castellanos--another San Diego jazz scene stalwart--sitting in on trumpet, giving the tune a bright, fluid feeling. John ...

Album

Evolution

By Rob Thorsen

Label: Azica Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Would (Wood) You? Besame Mucho; Let

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Article: Album Review

The Rob Thorsen Quartet: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Bassist-led recording dates make among the most interesting and swinging music produced in jazz. Paul Chambers’ recordings for Blue Note are a great case in point. Veteran bassist Rob Thorsen extends this tradition with Evolution. Thorsen is a San Francisco native who has been playing and performing the better part of his life and has appeared ...

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Article: Album Review

Rob Thorsen Quartet: Evolution

Read "Evolution" reviewed by J. Robert Bragonier

by J. Robert Bragonier

One pleasant consequence of so many independent CDs on the market is the opportunity to hear regional musicians who otherwise would have gotten little or no national exposure. It is exciting to find groups as good or better than nationally known variety. Rob Thorsen's quartet is but one example. When he was 18, ...


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