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Thought Trains
By Mike Holober
Label: Sons of Sound
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Jump Down, Spin Around 11:35; 2. Big Sky 10:11; 3 Waltz Medium 7:43; 4. Thought Trains 6:38; 5. Form X Mood
Holober 6:34; 6. Let's Get Nice 9:07; 7. Heart of the Matter 11:37; 8. I Can See My Desk from Here 6:15
Mike Holober and the Gotham Jazz Orchestra: Thought Trains
by Robert R. Calder
Mike Holober's not just another pianist working within long-established post-Bill Evans methods, he's one of the rare very individually creative ones. Given his more monumental approach, his Gotham Jazz Orchestra can seem something of an extension of his piano work. His orchestration sometimes fills out a piano conception, sometimes interacts with his playing, piano concerto fashion. ...
Thought Trains
By Mike Holober
Label: Sons of Sound
Released: 2004
Track listing: Jump Down Spin Around, Big Sky, Waltz Medium, Thought Trains, Form x Mood, Let's Get Nice, Heart of the Matter, I
Can See My Desk From Here
Mike Holober and the Gotham Jazz Orchestra: Thought Trains
by John Kelman
Originally recorded in '96, years before Mike Holober's début small group recording Canyon (Sons of Sound, '03), Thought Trains is only now seeing the light of day, but it continues to assert the pianist/composer/arranger as a dominant new force on the New York scene. And while the larger ensemble context of Thought Trains limits the amount ...
Mike Holober and the Gotham Jazz Orchestra: Thought Trains
by Dan McClenaghan
There's something about trains, the metronomic, ringing clink-clack of metal wheels on metal track, the fanfare of the whistle, the rhythm and rumble of the coaches being propelled across a countryside. Duke Ellington loved trains, in a day when he and the band used the form of transportion to get from gig to gig. Think of ...
The Gotham Jazz Orchestra: Thought Trains
by Jack Bowers
One assumes instinctively that a big–band album named Thought Trains isn’t likely to include such time–worn staples as “Moten Swing” or “One O’Clock Jump.” That’s definitely true of this one, even though it does receive a “jump start” from Mike Holober’s rhythmically vibrant composition, “Jump Down, Spin Around.” All of the compositions / arrangements are Holober’s, ...
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