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Ryan Haines Big Band: New Horizons
by Jack Bowers
Having tested the water with his first big band album, To the Sky, five years ago, trombonist Ryan Haines springs from the high board, executes a triple somersault, and lands with barely a splash on his second, New Horizons. Unlike that earlier album, which was largely a tribute to the US Air Force (Haines was then ...
Joel Penner Sextet: The Church of the Little Black Dog
by Michael P. Gladstone
Los Angeles-based trumpeter/flugelhornist Joel Penner is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. His first album, DragonJazz (2001), was well received and resulted in Sea Breeze extending him an invitation to join the label's roster, eventually yielding this recording. Penner gets off to a fine start with a little big band sound ...
Dave Askren: Some Other Things
by Jim Santella
Guitarist Dave Askren leads a stellar quartet on Some Other Things through a program of modern mainstream jazz originals and one standard. He provides a comfortable ambience, with several layers of harmony all wrapped up in nine lyrical melodies. Typically, the quartet drives straight ahead: forceful to some extent, but still laid-back enough to let the ...
Ryan Haines Big Band: New Horizons
by Jim Santella
I love a good big band. Especially when it swings like Count Basie. Trombonist Ryan Haines drives this big band with that same kind of laid-back groove, updating his charts with a contemporary flair and putting together a well balanced outfit to interpret his challenging arrangements. The leader's trombone soars fluidly overhead as he solos with ...
Dave Askren: Some Other Things
by Edward Blanco
This new release by Los Angeles-based jazz guitarist Dave Askren is his second album in four years with a small ensemble cast. In his first, a trio tribute to Bill Evans titled Re: Bill Evans, Askren recorded with bassist Mike Flick and drummer Steve Sykes. Some Other Things brings together Flick, drummer Jon Nathan, Askren and ...
Hawk-Richard Jazz Orchestra: Reunion
by Edward Blanco
In the course of listening to and appraising some of the fine big band music being recorded these days, once in a while and not often enough, you come across an unexpected surprise, a gem of an album full of music that sparkles all over. I'm pleased to report that such is the case with Reunion, ...
Siena
By Tom Knific
Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 2005
Track listing: If I Should Lose You, Estate, Siena, Dark Angel, You Don't Know What Love Is, The Baron, A Nice Idea, Que Cosa, Portrait of Thad.
Echoes In The Night
Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 2005
Track listing: The Owe Joe; East Of The Sun; Echoes In The Night; Jana's Song; Bad Dream; Firm Grip; Lou
Ann; A Change Will Come; The Bidwell Cronies.
Echoes In The Night
Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. The Owe Joe (Dick Oatts); 2. East of the Sun (Brooks Bowman); 3. Echoes in the Night (Steve Davis); 4. Jana's Song (Earl MacDonald); 5. Bad Dream (Earl MacDonald); 6. Firm Grip (Earl MacDonald); 7. Lou Ann (Joe Magnarelli); 8. A Change Will Come (Dick Oatts); 9. The Bidwell Cronies (Earl MacDonald)
For J.G.
Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 2005
Track listing: Be Bop; My Favorite Things; For Tekemitsu #2; Memories of Duke; for J.G.; The Single Petal
of A Rose; Shiny Stockings; Donna Lee; Night Train; Ballade (57:04).
