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Steve Davis: Outlook
by George Kanzler
Trombonist Steve Davis has spent much of his two-decade jazz career in larger ensembles--big bands but most notably sextets, from Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Chick Corea's Origin and the co-op band One for All to Benny Golson's New Jazztet. But when Davis leads his own bands or puts out his own records he thinks smaller. Outlook ...
New Time New Tet
By Benny Golson
Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2008
Track listing: Grove's Groove; Airegin; Dream to Dream; Whisper Not; Epistrophy; L'Adieu; Love Me in a Special Way; Gypsy Jungle; Verdi's Voice; Uptown Afterburn.
David Weiss: Writin', Arrangin' and Playin'
by R.J. DeLuke
David Weiss has been on the New York scene for a while now, writing and arranging, producing albums, organizing an outstanding octet. He's known for all that. He also plays the trumpet. Quite well, in fact. Although he's played with the likes of Jaki Byard, Frank Foster, Craig Handy, Christian McBride, Jimmy Heath and ...
Alone Together
By Steve Davis
Label: Mapleshade Recordings
Released: 2007
Track listing: Milestones; My Foolish Heart; Surrey With the Fringe on Top, Alone Together; The Day You Said Goodbye; United; We'll Be Together Again; UMMG; Shortcake.
Steve Davis Quintet at Cecil's Jazz Club
by David A. Orthmann
Steve Davis Quintet Cecil's Jazz Club West Orange, NJ June 15, 2007 The first of Steve Davis's seven recordings as a leader for the Criss Cross Jazz imprint, entitled The Jaunt, refers to the 110 mile trip from the trombonist's longtime base in Hartford, CT to the jazz Mecca, New ...
Steve Davis Quartet: Alone Together
by CJ Shearn
Trombonist Steve Davis has been a veteran of the New York scene for many years. Hailing from Binghamton, New York, he quickly established a presence as one of the best trombonists in the area as a teenager. Upon his arrival in New York City in the mid-1980s, Davis' talents were noticed by such luminaries as drummer ...
Update
By Steve Davis
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2006
Track listing: Marie Antoinette; Fenja; Bird Lives; Grove's Groove; The Maze; Daydream; Wildflower; Moment
to Moment; Leanin' & Preenin'.
Steve Davis: Update
by C. Andrew Hovan
For many years now, Steve Davis has been the torchbearer for an instrument that is often neglected among today's younger musicians. Often associated with swing and Dixieland styles, the trombone is no less a communicative voice for creative jazz expression than any other brass or woodwind instrument. Capable of using the 'bone as the sole lead ...
Steve Davis Quartet at Cecil's Jazz Club
by David A. Orthmann
Steve Davis Quartet Cecil's Jazz Club West Orange, NJ March 17, 2006 Great jazz musicians always find a way to rise above adverse performance conditions. Despite a sparse St Patrick's Day audience, the constant ringing of a cell phone, and a bartender whose voice boomed over the band, Steve Davis' ...
Meant to Be
By Steve Davis
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2005
Track listing: Bright Side; Choices; As Fate Would Have It; Lost in Thought; Waiting; Angelina; Blues Across the World
