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Tom Johnson is excited about his latest project, the Shark quintet. “I think I’ve found a format where I can really explore what I want to express”, he explains. The band has an unusual instrumentation: trombone, two saxes, double bass and drums. “This is a great opportunity to get stuck in” Isn’t it difficult to create harmonic interest with this line-up? “Definitely not.” Johnson is convinced; “the fact that we have no harmonic instrument has two important implications. First, it means that we can construct a harmony between all of us. When I write I can use up to four notes if I wish to and that’s more than enough to create a rich harmony
Time Takes Odd Turns
By Tom Johnson
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Naught Won; Simple Song; 80’s Suite: Book One; 80’s Suite (Book One, One More Time,
Lucky); En la Casa de los Perritos; Well You Better; Ballad for the A1 Band; Cats and Mouses;
Bossa Monday Suite; Simply Stuff and Nonsense.
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Jack Bowers
On a personal note, this is unlike any “best of the year" summaries I've written during my more than twenty-five years as a reviewer for All About Jazz. The reason is that I fell in late April and broke my left femur. As a result, I completed no reviews from that time until early September, a ...
Meet Jocelyn Gould
by Cheryl K.
In this hour, an interview with JUNO Award-winning guitarist and vocalist Jocelyn Gould. Her fourth album is titled Portrait of Right Now. Accompanying Gould are Will Bonness on piano, Curtis Nowosad on drums, and Jared Beckstead-Craan on bass. Playlist Tom Johnson Jazz Orchestra “Ballad for the A1 Band" from Time Takes Odd Turns (Tom ...
Lux Quartet, Warren Wolf, and Archie Shepp
by Jerome Wilson
This show features recent music from Warren Wolf and the Lux Quartet led by Myra Melford and Allison Miller as well as older work from Jamie Baum and Don Byron's New Gospel Quintet. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill ...
Tom Johnson Jazz Orchestra: Time Takes Odd Turns
by Jack Bowers
Time is not the only thing that has taken odd turns in composer/trumpeter Tom Johnson's life and career. Even though a musician at heart, he chose a more practical and lucrative path, spending his adult years as a psychologist and full-time professor at Indiana State University, placing his dream of a musical career on hold while ...
The Architecture Of Jazz
by Bob Osborne
Traditional jazz groups move from trios to full orchestras via various combinations. This selection of new releases features well recognised instrumental combinations and well as exciting and inventive new formations which challenge the accepted norms and offer new aspects to the music. The Architecture of Jazz has both a rich history and an exciting future.
Bob Florence Limited Edition / Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band / Dana Legg Stage Band / John Burnett Swing Orchestra
by Jack Bowers
Bob Florence Limited Edition Legendary MAMA 2009 “Legendary" is a word that is often misused and shamelessly over-used, and in this case entirely appropriate. Even though composer / arranger / pianist Bob Florence is no longer with us, and wasn't in the studio when his Limited Edition recorded ...
