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It's Like That: The Organ Trio Anthology 1998 - 2004
By Skip Heller
Label: Jewbilee
Released: 2004
Track listing: Big J Shuffle; Jelly; Dave Alvin; Andy Tesso; Meydele; Nika's Dowery; Giant Steps;
Funeral March From Mahler Symphony 5; Interplanatary Music; Rosetta; Emiko;
Don't Know Why; Never Can Say Goodbye; Chinatown; The Yodel; The Mighty
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Skip Heller: It's Like That: The Organ Trio Anthology 1998 - 2004
by C. Michael Bailey
The hyper-eclectic Skip Heller has most recently been attending the often-abused genre of guitar-organ jazz. The guitarist's most recent recordings, Fake Book , Battle in Seattle , and Homegoing were all devoted to this time-tested format, and in each case Heller revealed some element not otherwise considered when thinking of Hammond B3-driven jazz. It's ...
Skip Heller: Fakebook
by Chris M. Slawecki
When you read that youngblood guitarist Skip Heller has played with a wide range of musicians, it means a wide range of musicians – Todd Rundgren to Yma Sumac to Big Jay McNeely to Susanna Hoffs to NRBQ and more. On Fakebook , Heller leads John Wicks on drums, Robert Drasnin on flute, ...
Eight Questions for Skip Heller
by C. Michael Bailey
Skip Heller looks like the love child Charlie Sheen, Lenny Bruce, and the young Art Pepper. He is tall and thin (Mr. Heller is a runner) with a plume of dark hair that would appear more comfortable on the mid-1950s streets of his native Philadelphia than the sunny climes of Southern California. The music he makes ...
Skip Heller: Fakebook
by C. Michael Bailey
Skip Heller FakebookHyena Records2004Ever since I heard of Career Suicide and Homegoing , I have enthusiastically anticipated the next Skip Heller release. In 2003, Mr. Heller continued his organ trio investigations that began with Homegoing with the well-received live recording Battle in Seattle , where he hooked up ...
The Battle in Seattle 3.13.03
By Skip Heller
Label: Jewbilee
Released: 2003
Track listing: Sometimes It Snows In April; Freddie The Freeloader; Arriverderci, Roma; Fun Day; Emiko; Never
Can Say Goodbye.
Skip Heller with Dose: The Battle in Seattle 3.13.03
by C. Michael Bailey
Skip Heller is a West Coast Uri Caine with a much more wicked sense of humor. That comparison should be flattering to both parties, as they were friends growing up on the jazz fertile street of Philadelphia. Both men like to apply jazz, or simply music, if you will, in the most unlikely places. Ever searching, ...
Skip Heller: Inviting You In to his Musical World
by R.J. DeLuke
Where do you start with Skip Heller, a self-taught guitarist, composer, arranger who's been playing bars and clubs since his high school days, everything from blues to rock to rockabilly to bluegrass to folk and on and on. He knows Mahler and Dave Douglas. He knows Louis Jordan and Henry Mancini. He may be the world's ...
Homegoing
By Skip Heller
Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: From the Night Before; Maydele; Time After Time; Nika's Dowry; Emily
Remler; Funeral March from Mahler, Symphony #5; The 'Intensive' Girl; I
Just Keep Lovin' Her; Thinking Of You.
The Skip Heller Quartet: Homegoing
by Jim Santella
Skip Heller's organ combo brightens the day with its saucy freshness and pert attitude. Eclectic in nature, the group interprets blues, pop soundtracks and mainstream jazz classics. It's timeless music with a timeless flavor. Heller emerged in Philadelphia in the mid-eighties, but his music, much of it original, comes from an earlier era. Shirley Scott, Groove ...
