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Music Box
Label: TNC Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: A Three in Four; Smilin’ Eyes; Blue Sky; Infinite; Piece of Mind; Decisions; Illusions; Trikings; Stefan Karlsson interviewed by Ken Hanlon (72:01).
The Heart and Soul of Hoagy Carmichael
Label: TNC Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Georgia on My Mind; The Nearness of You; I Get Along without You Very Well; Stardust; Two Sleepy People; Heart and Soul; One Morning in May; Small Fry; Skylark; Up a Lazy River (58:01).
No Place to Go But Up
Label: TNC Recordings
Released: 2002
Track listing: Mack the Knife; It Never Was You; No Place to Go But Up; Here I
The Shapiro Project: True Colors
by Jack Bowers
The Shapiro Project is a quartet formed two years ago by grad students at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas who were pursuing degrees in Jazz Studies. Guitarist Eugene Shapiro, the group’s composer / arranger, serves as nominal leader with Rusty Blevins on tenor and soprano saxophones, Kevin Thomas on bass and a second Shapiro, younger brother ...
The Tom Ferguson Trio: Say When
by Jack Bowers
Piano trio Jazz as it should be played, with intelligence and brio, by Tom Ferguson and his empathetic teammates, bassist Tom Warrington and drummer Steve Houghton. For Ferguson, known primarily as an accompanist and educator, the debut is as long overdue as it is welcome, and we can thank TNC Records for coaxing the sixty (or ...
The Wayne de Silva Quartet: First Morning
by Jack Bowers
The references to Joe Henderson in the liner notes to Wayne de Silva’s CD, First Morning, aren’t misplaced; the young tenor saxophonist often mirrors Henderson’s temperament, both in spirit and in substance. On the other hand, he’s definitely no clone, using Henderson’s substructure as a springboard for his fresh improvisational concepts. The similarities between them are ...
Jiggs Whigham / Gene Bertoncini: The Heart and Soul of Hoagy Carmichael
by Jack Bowers
One great composer, two wonderful musicians, ten memorable songs — a fabulous idea on paper, but one in which the ingredients are sometimes tastier than the meal. Not that trombonist Jiggs Whigham and guitarist Gene Bertoncini are a less than charming and accomplished duo; on the contrary, they perform the songs of Hoagy Carmichael with an ...
Jazz @ Six: Out of the Blue
by Jack Bowers
Jazz @ Six is a six–member co–op group comprised of faculty members at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas. These are teachers who can — play, that is — an opinion that even the most casual survey of Out of the Blue quickly affirms. Pianist Stefan Karlsson, UNLV’s director of Jazz Studies, is present on every track, ...
The Stefan Karlsson Trio and Friends: Music Box
by Jack Bowers
Recorded in 1997, Music Box is the first album by pianist Stefan Karlsson’s trio (Tom Warrington, bass; Ed Soph, drums), which is hard to believe in light of their conspicuous rapport and the high level of musicianship throughout. The talented threesome has since recorded a second album, No Place to Go But Up, and backed a ...
Walter Blanton and Dharma: Voyage from the Past
by Jack Bowers
Grab your pencils and paper, students; there’ll be a pop quiz later. From Brian Sanders’ liner notes to Voyage from the Past: “Dharma begins with the notion that the relationship between composition and improvisation is circular rather than linear; that each process inspires the other. Dharma furthers our sense that music is conversation: participants [are] free ...
