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Article: Album Review

Tomoko Omura: Roots

Read "Roots" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


Chosen as one of 2015's “Rising Stars" in Downbeat magazine's critics poll, violinist Tomoko Omura's Roots is evidence that some of the most alluring music is that which combines disparate locales and cultures. The artistic fusion of songs from her homeland in Japan with verdant progressive jazz is presented by Omura and her top flight group ...

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Tomoko Omura: Roots

Read "Roots" reviewed by Ian Patterson


The roots of the title of violinist Tomoko Omura's second CD as leader refer to traditional and popular melodies familiar to several generations of Japanese. But if the melodies of Omura's childhood have left an indelible stamp on her musical DNA, so too has the past decade spent in America absorbing the roots of jazz. It's ...

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Tomoko Omura: Roots

Read "Roots" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Japanese violinist Tomoko Omura may be ten years into a stay in the United States, but Roots clearly demonstrates that she hasn't forgotten or forsaken her homeland. Omura left Japan and relocated to the United States in 2004, eager and ready to study at Boston's Berklee College of Music. Shortly after graduating in ...

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Roots

Label: Longlife Records
Released: 2014

Album

Roots

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2013
Track listing: Serpentine; Vertigo; Kish; Roots; Missing Man 1; Past Place; Big Mouth; Missing Man 2; Prairie Dog; Last Call.

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David Redmond: Roots

Read "Roots" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Il sodalizio tra David Redmond, Jason Rigby, Bill Carrothers e Kevin Brady dura da alcuni anni. Accade spesso che nei dischi firmati da uno dei componenti del quartetto, gli altri tre compaiano come sidemen. In questo caso è il bassista David Redmond ad assumere le vesti del leader ed a far uscire, per Fresh Sound/New Talent, ...

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David Redmond: Roots

Read "Roots" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Irish bassist David Redmond is nothing if not versatile, playing in the thrilling World music outfit Yurodny and in the small jazz combos of pianist Phil Ware, drummer Kevin Brady and veteran guitarists Tommy Hafferty and Louis Stewart. Belfast's Soulman Van Morrison has also called upon Redmond's services. Across the pond, to use Irish parlance, Redmond's ...

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Roots

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011

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Label: Basis Records
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Album

Roots

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2010


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