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Dan Pratt Organ Quartet: Springloaded

Read "Springloaded" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
October 15, 2004

DPOQ, as it's named on the cover of Springloaded, stands for the Dan Pratt Organ Quartet, a smokin' band led by tenor saxophonist Dan Pratt. DPOQ draws upon the foundations of organ jazz as set by Jimmy Smith and Larry Young, using modern compositional forms to create up-to-the-minute jazz that combines invention and swing. The members ...

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Sunna Gunnlaugs Quartet: Live in Europe

Read "Live in Europe" reviewed by John Kelman

by John Kelman
May 25, 2004

Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko explained, in a recent interview, how the term melancholy does not always have to mean sad; there can be an inherent optimism as well. Pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs, an ex-pat from Iceland who now makes her home in New York City, understands that all too well. She writes music that is tender and ...

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George Colligan: Mad Science

Read "Mad Science" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes

by Terrell Kent Holmes
March 16, 2004

Noted keyboardist, group leader and ubiquitous sideman George Colligan has applied his chops to the Hammond B-3 with his latest release, Mad Science, which is also the name of the trio he's assembled: guitarist Tom Guarna, drummer Rodney Holmes and guest star Gary Thomas on tenor sax and flute.“Barbarians" is a funk-driven opener. Colligan ...

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Fagra Verold

By Sunna Gunnlaugs

Label: Sunny Sky
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1 Fra lidnu vori 2. Eg leyfi mer ad dreyma 3. Fagra verold 4. Sumar vid sjo 5. Margar naetur 6. Heim nu reikar hugurinn 7. Eg mun takast a vid heiminn 8. Lestin mikla 9. Skipaskagi

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Mad Science

By George Colligan

Label: Sunny Sky
Released: 2003
Track listing: Barbarians; Earth Signs; Out From The Underground; Mad Science; Seduction; Tought Police; Alaska Basin; Modieidi

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George Colligan: Mad Science

Read "Mad Science" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
December 8, 2003

I must confess that I recently signed a petition to call for the end of B3 organ recordings. Not that I haven’t enjoyed the jazz organ playing by Jimmy Smith, Charles Earland, and Sun Ra... just that with the reinvestigation of the instrument since the late 1980s and 1990s the storm gates have opened for John ...

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Sunna Gunnlaugs: Fagra Verold

Read "Fagra Verold" reviewed by Roger Crane

by Roger Crane
May 12, 2003

An Icelandic woman who leads her own group is not the most common thing in jazz, but pianist Sunna Gunnlaugs just may be the best jazz pianist you’ve never heard. As a child she played polkas and Beatles tunes on the organ in her homeland, but an encounter with an LP by pianist Bill Evans was, ...

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