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Article: Liner Notes

Steve Davis: Systems Blue

by C. Andrew Hovan
February 25, 2023

From Kid Ory to Roswell Rudd, the role of the trombone has changed dramatically over the brief span of jazz history, as we know it. Whether it be keeping a beat via the style of “tailgating," exploring a multitude of textural possibilities through the challenges of the avant-garde, or working somewhere in that middle ground that ...

Album

Systems Blue

By Steve Davis

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2002
Track listing: Surrey With The Fringe On Top; Spirit Waltz; Systems Blue; A Nightingale Sang In Berleley Square; If I Love Again; Who Can I Turn To; Speak Low; 8. Namely You; Three and One; My Old Flame.

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Article: Album Review

Steve Davis: Systems Blue

Read "Systems Blue" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann
May 2, 2002

Indicative of formative experiences in the bands of Art Blakey and Jackie McLean, as well as his current association with the cooperative sextet One For All, Steve Davis’ Systems Blue encompasses many of the characteristics of bop and hard bop without sounding stalled in a bygone era. On his fifth date for the Criss Cross label, ...