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It's Krunch Time

Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Released: 2001
Track listing: Tenderness of Spring; Krunch Time; Bemsha Swing; New Groes for the New Millenium; Ode to Mr. DC; Khanducting; The Opening; Star Spangled Banner.

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Roy Campbell Quartet: It's Krunch Time

Read "It's Krunch Time" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
August 1, 2001

Leave your preconceptions at the door when you hit play on this one. Roy Campbell, an incendiary free jazz trumpeter? Sometimes. Wilber Morris, an adventurous, abstract bassist? Sometimes. Guillermo E. Brown, a steaming powerhouse drummer? Sometimes. It's Krunch Time is an exceptionally accessible record, given the broad talent and free jazz experience of the musicians. It ...

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Roy Campbell's Pyramid Trio: Ethnic Stew and Brew

Read "Ethnic Stew and Brew" reviewed by Derek Taylor

by Derek Taylor
April 1, 2001

Saxophone trios rounded out by bass and drums are a regularity in creative improvised music. Strangely, trios led by trumpet are a comparatively rare occurrence. The reasons behind the disparity are debatable but may have something to do with the perceived difficulties in timbre and range sometimes attached to brass instruments. Where the adroit brass player ...

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Roy Campbell's Pyramid Trio: Ethnic Stew And Brew

Read "Ethnic Stew And Brew" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
April 1, 2001

Trumpeter Roy Campbell’s music reminds one of the art of saxophonist Albert Ayler. Like Ayler, Campbell’s approach is to swallow all musical concepts, converting ‘world-music’ into one-music. His playing can emanate pure improvisation, like in the quartet Other Dimensions In Music, and the trumpeter can also maintain that improvisational touch in the large band of William ...

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