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Threshold

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: Speech Perception; Simple Times; Liminality; Thought Process; Quiet Recollections; Folklore; Looper's Gold; Keep Moving.

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEWS November 29, 2015

The fast-paced “Speech Perception" offers a dramatic and modal introduction to this album. Tenor sax and trumpet play vibrant solos all underpinned by the rhythm section and solid piano chords, redolent of McCoy Tyner. The mood changes with “Simple Times" which presents an ensemble opening to this pastoral piece embellished by Matthew Muneses sensitive tenor sax ...

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Threshold

By MIKE DIRUBBO

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Threshold; Where There's A Willis There's A Way; Sun Steps; Pace; Faith; Curvas Perigosas; 1970; Salter Of The Earth; Bloomdido.

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEWS March 21, 2014

Mike DiRubbo: Threshold

By EDWARD BLANCO

New York-based alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo is one of the most recognizable and formidable forces in the jazz world today. A former student of the late great jazz icon Jackie McLean and a fixture in the Big Apple's vibrant jazz scene, DiRubbo is no novice. He has a substantial discography, and experience performing with some of ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEWS March 18, 2014

Mike DiRubbo: Threshold

By HRAYR ATTARIAN

Mike DiRubbo's eight disc as a leader, Threshold finds the ever inventive alto saxophonist in a solidly hard bop environment that is reminiscent of Blue Note records of the 1950s but has a clear modern edge. In addition to leading a superb and sympathetic quintet, DiRubbo penned eight of the nine tracks on this riveting record ...

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