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In Orbit

Label: Sharp Nine Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Mommy, Mommy No!; Buttermouse; The Cow Is Now; The Lemur is a Dreamer; Dawn on the Desert; The Squirrel is a Girl; Sonora; Dual Highway.

Album

The Thang

Label: Sharp Nine Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: All The Things You Are; The Thang; Pamela; Hey Jimmy; The Paper Chase; Speak Low; Overjoyed; Billy Boy.

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One for All: The Lineup

Read "The Lineup" reviewed by Ken Kase


Time was when jazz history was measured in terms of linear progress as artists influenced each other to create new sounds. Jazz, it has been said, fed off of itself in a constant state of progression, pushing the music to its limits. But times have changed, and this construct has been revised several times over as ...

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Article: Album Review

Planet Jazz: In Orbit

Read "In Orbit" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Heavenly--if not very far out--sextet sides are Planet Jazz's saucer of well-steeped black tea. Just the bracing tonic one might expect from Sharp Nine, purveyor of intelligence and taste in small-band jazz for a decade. From the first tightly scored, three-voiced chorus, which swings smoothly through drum breaks on a tune waggishly entitled “Mommy, Mommy No!, ...

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Planet Jazz: In Orbit

Read "Planet Jazz: In Orbit" reviewed by David A. Orthmann


Planet Jazz In Orbit Sharp Nine Records 2006 Planet Jazz is a longstanding, unrecognized sextet that boasts several exceptional soloists and an unusually cogent rhythm section. Two factors distinguish the band from the wealth of talented groups on the New York City straight-ahead jazz scene: A precise ensemble sound honed ...

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Anthony Wonsey: The Thang

Read "The Thang" reviewed by Mark F. Turner


Anthony Wonsey's latest disc finds the pianist coming into his own creative voice. Wonsey has been at the center of some very notable works over the past few years, including recordings by trumpeter Nicholas Payton, songstress Carmen Lundy and others. The Thang, his fifth disc as a leader, continues in the straight-ahead format of his label, ...

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Article: Album Review

Julius Tolentino: Just the Beginning

Read "Just the Beginning" reviewed by Eric J. Iannelli


Bolder claims have been made than the one alto saxophonist Julius Tolentino makes in the title of his debut CD as leader, and on more than one occasion by musicians without the chops to back them up. That isn't the case here. At a baby-faced thirty years of age, surrounded by a group of veteran and ...

Album

Rev-elation

Label: Sharp Nine Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: The Prophet Speaks; Young and Foolish; The Look of Love; Rev-elation; Opus de Funk; Close Enough for Love; Big Town; Used to Be Jackson.

Album

Modern Standards

Label: Sharp Nine Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Witchcraft; A House Is Not A Home; Yesterday; Who Can I Turn To; How Deep Is Your Love; Moment To Moment; A Time For Love; Somewhere; For The Love Of You.


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