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Introducing Opus 5

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2012
Track listing: Think Of Me; Talltsman; Baker's Dozen; Ton To Tom; Nostalgia In Time; Asami's Playland; Sokol.

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Article: Album Review

Jaiman Crunk: Encounters

Read "Encounters" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Seattle-based guitarist Jaiman Crunk hasn't taken half measures on Encounters, his debut as leader. In addition to marshalling over 20 top jazz musicians--cherry picked for specific roles--Crunk employs fourteen brass, woodwind and string musicians from the Seattle Symphony Orchestra on half the compositions. These four numbers in particular underline Crunk's notable compositional and arranging skills and ...

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Article: Catching Up With

Greg Diamond: Conduit as the Direction

Read "Greg Diamond: Conduit as the Direction" reviewed by Marta Ramon


Guitarist Greg Diamond has found his niche at the New York jazz scene. This cosmopolitan man knows how to pour both of his roots, New Yorker and Colombian, into his music. He has set his own style that lets his music be recognized. His playing has led him to perform with accomplished jazz musicians like saxophonist ...

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Article: Album Review

Greg Diamond: Conduit

Read "Conduit" reviewed by Edward Blanco


New York guitarist Greg Diamond follows up his well-received debut, Dancando Com Ale (Self Produced, 2008), with the equally impressive Conduit--a session of contemporary modern jazz infused with Latin rhythms and elements of jazz-rock fusion, funk, bebop and a touch of the blues. The music is a hodgepodge of different influences, melding nicely into one superb ...

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Article: Album Review

Opus 5: Introducing Opus 5

Read "Introducing Opus 5" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Collectively delivered jazz albums almost always fall into one of three categories: some are outings from neophytes looking to pool their resources, while trying to build a fan base from the ground floor up; others marry the musical skills of seasoned musicians who've crossed paths in various situations and/or share a commonality in approach; and the ...

Album

As You Like

Label:
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. All The Things You Are; 02. Played Twice; 03. Guinnevere; 04. Will Call; 05. Days of Old; 06. As You Like; 07. At Sundown; 08. Minor Shuffle; 09. Isotope.

Album

Live At Smalls

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2011
Track listing: Subterfuge; Amuse Bouche; Consequence; Stranger in Paradise; Fear of Rooming.

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News: Performance / Tour

Tenor Sax Standout Seamus Blake Performs at Berklee's 939 Cafe on Wednesday, December 7

Tenor Sax Standout Seamus Blake Performs at Berklee's 939 Cafe on Wednesday, December 7

Jazz saxophonist Seamus Blake is performing at the Red Room at Cafe 939 in Boston on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets to the performance are $10 general admission and can be purchased online. The concert is part of a new NPR/ WBGO Jazz 88 FM concert series called The Check Out—Live at Berklee, ...

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News: Recording

Opus 5 - Introducing Opus 5 (Criss Cross, 2011)

On January 27, 2011, five veterans of the Mingus Big Band, and heavy-hitters on the mainstream jazz scene in their own right met to record an album under the collective name Opus 5. The band consists of Seamus Blake on tenor saxophone, Alex Sipiagin on trumpet and flugelhorn, David Kikoski on electric and acoustic piano, Donald ...


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