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Fred Wesley & The Swing 'N Jazz All-Stars: It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
by Suzanne Lorge
Charity golf tournaments raise millions--sometimes billions--in the name of giving back. Trombonist Fred Wesley uses a different kind of swing to make his contribution: His recent release as bandleader, It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing, benefits The Commission Project (TCP), a nonprofit that supports various music education projects around the U.S. ...
Bob Sneider and Joe Locke Film Noir Project: Fallen Angel
by Robert R. Calder
Very, very nice this one is, the absence of an overall noir atmosphere no cause for complaint. The project, under the leadership of Bob Sneider and Joe Locke, looks at the scores of cinematic works of the film noir genre, simply for material worth performing. Maybe somebody thought the genre might have occasioned unusual inspiration and ...
Anthony Branker & Ascent: Spirit Songs
by Ken Franckling
Primarily working outside of the major league jazz spotlight, but not far from it by any means, Anthony Branker is crafting some of today's finest compositions--and has assembled the sextet Ascent to bring them to musical life. Spirit Songs consists of tunes Branker has written since 1997, performed by a rather formidable unit: ...
The Bob Sneider & Joe Locke Film Noir Project: Fallen Angel
by Jerry D'Souza
The dark, haunting world of film noir has returned to thrill viewers in a spate of releases on DVD in recent months. This Film Noir Project transposes that spell to music, capturing the essence of the themes that enhance the thrill of watching the films. Music, even in its darkest ambit, can be elevating. Bob Sneider ...
The Bob Sneider and Joe Locke Film Noir Project: Fallen Angel
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
This music is as subtle and nuanced as the shadows in an old black-and-white movie. Like the film noir that inspired it, Fallen Angel is romantic and jaded, beautiful and cynical, and full of longing and disappointment, all at the same time. The material is excellent: vibraphonist Joe Locke's “Fallen Angel" and pianist Paul Hofmann's “Last ...
Anthony Branker & Ascent: Spirit Songs
by Robert R. Calder
This star of Spirit Song is Ralph Peterson, not on the trumpet he occasionally plays, but as a drummer who's as much in the front line as any hornman on the date, needing and finding as much inspiration and as many ideas as any horn soloist. Often he plays pretty well in duet with each of ...
The Bob Sneider & Joe Locke Film Noir Project: Fallen Angel
by John Kelman
Upstate New York might seem an unlikely place for a jazz scene to develop, but Rochester's renowned Eastman School of Music has provided fertile common ground for a wealth of players to come together over the years. Guitarist Bob Sneider and pianist Paul Hofmann, for example, recorded Interconnection (Sons of Sound, 2004) and a recently released ...
Anthony Branker & Ascent: Spirit Songs
by Jerry D'Souza
Composer and arranger Anthony Branker shows an inclination toward the spiritual on this aptly titled effort, also tilting his pen in tributes to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. As an arranger, he has the gift of letting ensemble lines and solo spots tell their separate, but nevertheless connected stories. All of this works to the good, ...
Stop-Start
By Trio East
Label: Sons of Sound
Released: 2005
Track listing: Tray-Bo (04:50); Up Against The Wall (05:48); Stop-Start (04:31); Con-Alma (05:26; In Fine Line (05:55); Late Bloomer (07:44); 26-2 (03:56); Soul Eyes (05:10); Happy House (01:44)
Jay Leonhart Trio: Cool
By Jay Leonhart
Label: Sons of Sound
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. Take Four; 2. If I Only had a brain; 3. Cool; 4. Nobody else but me; 5. Shall we dance; 6. My Bluebird;
7. Jitterbug Waltz; 8. C Jam blues; 9. You and me; 10. I loves you, Porgy; 11. Bop Kick; 12. For Real; 13.
Two funky people.
