Results for "The Uptown Quintet"

The Uptown Quintet

Live in New York

By The Uptown Quintet

Label: Cellar Live
Released: 2006
Track listing: O'Cleary's Shuffle; In the Kitchen; A Foolish Lament; Sweet Pumpkin; Calypso Cove; Blue Minor; Joyful Abandon.

The Uptown Quintet: Live in New York

by Samuel Chell
July 11, 2006

This 2006 release of an on-location recording features a non-working band of five musicians who live above 96th Street and have studied at the New School or the Manhattan School of Music. The sounds are less suggestive of the conservatory, however, than Rudy Van Gelder's Blue Note recording studio from the late '50s and early '60s, ...

Live in New York

By The Uptown Quintet

Label: Cellar Live
Released: 2005
Track listing: O'Cleary's Shuffle; In the Kitchen; A Foolish Lament; Sweet Pumpkin; Calypso Cove; Blue Minor; Joyful Abandon.

Uptown Swing

By The Uptown Quintet

Label: Harlem Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Looking Uptown; Give Me The Simple Life; Battle Royal; Blue And Sentimental; Corner Pocket; Bebe's Blues; Just One Of Those Things; The Spirit Is Willing; Ballad Melody; Hot News; If I Had You; Taste On The Place

The Uptown Quintet: Live in New York

by Dan McClenaghan
September 13, 2005

Let's start off with the meat of the matter: Live in New York is hard bop of the highest order; it drives straight ahead with a crackling energy. If Art Blakey can hear this disc up in jazz heaven, he surely has a big grin on his face.And now a tangent. You've got to ...

Uptown 5: Uptown Swing

by Stephen Latessa
June 7, 2005

In the press materials accompanying Uptown Swing, trombonist Jeff Williams describes the Uptown 5 as “a swing quintet playing mainly Basie and Basie influenced music utilizing the enormous and under-used sound of the trombone and tenor saxophone. The description is certainly true, as far as it goes, but it leaves out the palpable sense of joy ...