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Tim Armacost: Brightly Dark

Read "Brightly Dark" reviewed by Alexander M. Stern

by Alexander M. Stern
October 7, 2003

The ghost of John Coltrane hovers over Brightly Dark. At times, Tim Armacost sounds startlingly like the late saxophonist, especially when he plays soprano, as he does on 'Afro Pentameter' and on the title track. Armacost is an extremely talented musician and an excellent composer, but he is still somewhat lacking in originality. Not that anyone ...

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The Wishing Well

By Tim Armacost

Label: Double Cross
Released: 2000
Track listing: Body And Soul; Sustenance; Cresent; Black Sand Beach; The Wishing Well; Special Delivery.

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Tim Armacost: The Wishing Well

Read "The Wishing Well" reviewed by AAJ Staff

by AAJ Staff
June 1, 2000

In order to play true jazz, a musician needs to assimilate all that went before him, paying particular attention to those artists who charted the course and defined the vernacular for the specific instrument that he has set out to master. In music, nothing ever gets pulled out of thin air. You carry forth a linage, ...

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Tim Armacost: The Wishing Well

Read "The Wishing Well" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
June 1, 2000

A quick look at his bio, and a quick listen to his accomplished new release on Double-Time Records, makes clear that 37-year-old Tim Armacost is no run-of-the-mill tenor saxophonist. A well-travelled, broadly educated New Yorker (via L.A., Washington, Tokyo, Amsterdam and India), Armacost draws heavily on the Coltrane and Rollins legacies, but has enough fresh musical ...