Results for "Steeplechase Records"

Current State

By Martin Jacobsen

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Witchcraft/ Backwater/ Stairway to the Stars/ Forest Flower/ This I Dig of You/ Everything I Love/ Arrival/ Polkadots and Moonbeams/ Funk in Deep Freeze/ Current State.

Inside Chicago, Volume 3

By Brad Goode & Von Freeman

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: The Blues Walk/ You and the Night and the Music/ Just You Just Me/ A Night In Tunisia/ Star Eyes/ Blue Moon/ What Is This Thing Called Love.

Gong With Wind Suite

By Matt Wilson

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Gong With Wind/ Song With Wind/ Winding Up/ Brush/Wind/ No Ill Wind/ Brush Thing/ Rhythmic Wind/ Stickin

Jam Session, Volume 5

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Dig (6:23)/ Up Jumped Spring (8:19)/ Body and Soul (5:47)/ Strikezone (7:57)/ If You Could See Me Now (4:44)/ After Thought (5:54)/ The Duke Ellington Sound of Love (4:28)/ World Wide Web (9:57)/ Onion Straw (8:27).

Duke Jordan: Flight to Norway

by Derek Taylor
October 25, 2003

Jazz pianists in the era of Monk and Powell faced an almost Sisyphean task when it came to currying popularity with the public. These two doyens of the instrument cast a nimbus of influence so wide that even luminaries like Elmo Hope and Herbie Nichols were subsumed in their shadows. Despite being present during the birthing ...

Martin Jacobsen: Current State

by Derek Taylor
October 25, 2003

Steeplechase has long been in the business of giving young talent a shot. The label's roster is brimming with well-established, and sometimes legendary, names right along with players who are only just beginning to make their marks. Tenor saxophonist Martin Jacobsen certainly falls into the latter category, a young Danish man seeking his fortune in the ...

Various: Jam Session, Volume 6

by Derek Taylor
June 25, 2003

Volume 6 of Steeplechase's jam session series adopts the more familiar framework of saxophones, brass and rhythm, but still relies on the element of the surprise in its solo statements. With a songbook of only four compositions, the tracks are considerably longer and allow for more loquacity on the part of the players. George Colligan is ...

Various: Jam Session, Volume 5

by Derek Taylor
June 25, 2003

The Danish Steeplechase imprint has long recognized the fertile dynamics of jam sessions, fronting the resources for many in its roster of players to convene in just such supportive surroundings. Volumes 5 and 6 in the continuing series offer up vernal combinations and surprises while upholding producer Nils Winther’s credo of “positively no rehearsal.” Volume 5 ...

Brad Goode & Von Freeman: Inside Chicago, Volume 4

by Derek Taylor
April 11, 2003

Steeplechase seems to have stepped up the pace on its anthology of concert recordings chosen from trumpeter Brad Goode’s exhaustive tape cache. This fourth volume comes just months after the release of the third. Listeners outside the Chicago loop are perhaps less likely to have heard of Goode, but his co-pilot in the front line should ...

Don Friedman: My Foolish Heart

by Derek Taylor
April 11, 2003

Many modern jazz fans consider the 1960s as the creative apogee of the music. The abundance of top-flight musicians, coupled with a near continuous stream of boundary breaking innovations, made for a creatively explosive combination. The downside to this artistic boon was that many high caliber conceptualists got lost in the deluge.A case could ...