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Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases Of 2016
by Dan McClenaghan
The music keeps moving forward, evolving to higher levels. My search for the best jazz recordings of 2016 led me to these marvelous CDs. Wadada Leo SmithAmerica's National Parks Cuneiform Records Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has attempted in, the new millennium, to create his magnum opus. He may have succeeded ...
Odious Mode
Album: Impulsive Illuminations
By Tom Collier
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2016
Duration: 10:21
Tom Collier: Impulsive Illuminations
by Dan McClenaghan
Vibraphonist Tom Collier offers up something quite different from his previous Origin Records CDs, where he covered the jazz standards like John Coltrane's “Giant Steps; Miles Davis' “So What," and some seemingly unlikely pop hits: The Rolling Stones “What a Shame" and Brian Wilson's “God Only Knows," alongside his own always engaging compositions. With Impulsive Illuminations, ...
Tom Collier: Across The Bridge
by Dan Bilawsky
Ruminations on the past, musical or otherwise, are often weighed down by the sediment of sentiment. But it certainly doesn't have to be that way. Looking back can provide an outlet for the imagination to take control, and vibraphonist Tom Collier seems well aware of that. On Across The Bridge, Collier revisits his youth, delivering nine ...
Alone in the Studio
By Tom Collier
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Little Green Thing; Lines; Double Bars; Spring Can Really Hang You Up
The Most; Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise; God Only Knows / Here,
There, And Everywhere; Five Brothers; Anyone Who Had A Heart; Turning
To Spring; Alone; Orbital Dance.
Tom Collier: Alone in the Studio
by C. Michael Bailey
Percussionist Tom Collier has the solo touch. His previous recording, Tom Collier: Plays Haydn, Mozart, Telemann and Others (Origin, 2012) had the vibraphonist and educator making his way through a Baroque and classical recitals to great effect. Presently, Collier strolls through some originals and standards and not-so-standard standards making up this most inventive and clever collection ...
Sleek Buick
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Sleek Buick; California Avenue; MWB's; Touching; Lettercollum / Paris; A Corona Haze; Playas de
Rosarita; Mallet Tech; Ethiopian; Walking In My Old Shoes
Plays Haydn, Mozart, Telemann and Others
By Tom Collier
Label: Origin Classical
Released: 2012
Track listing: Duo I For Two Violins, Opus 67 - Louis Spohr; Three Duos For Two
Violins, Opus 99 - Franz Joseph Haydn; Duet For Two Violins (After The
Piano Sonata In A Major, K.331) - W.A. Mozart; Duet In G Major For
Violin And Flute - Georg Philipp Telemann (Rolf Ermeler, Editor); Duet
No. 1 For Two Violins, Opus 33 - Franz Krommer; Allegro From Eine
Kleine Nachtmusik - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Moto Perpetuo In C Major,
Opus 11 - Niccol˜ Paganini (Fritz Kreisler, Transcription).
Tom Collier: Plays Haydn, Mozart, Telemann and Others
by C. Michael Bailey
Tom Collier is a bit of a character as, can be attested by the YouTube videos below. He has served as Director of Percussion Studies at the University of Washington since 1980. In 2011, he was appointed Chair of Jazz Studies at the school, and was awarded the Adelaide D. Currie Cole Endowed Professorship in the ...
Mallet Fantastique
By Tom Collier
Label: Origin Classical
Released: 2010
Track listing: Marimba Fantastic; Three Scenes for Vibraphone and Marimba - Nordica Hills; Three Scenes for
Vibraphone and Marimba - Cedar Park After Dark; Three Scenes for Vibraphone and Marimba - Pink
Skies Over Carnaby; Cross Bars; Duettino Improvisando for Vibraphone and Marimba; Vibescape for
Solo Vibraphone - Nocturne; Vibescape for Solo Vibraphone - Space; Vibescape for Solo Vibraphone -
Rondo; Radio Galop
