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Article: My Playlist

Tom Varner

Read "Tom Varner" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


01. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus (Prestige - 1956). Solenne, ricco di maestria tecnica, di inventiva, spavaldo. 02. Julius Watkins - French Horns for My Lady (Phillips - 1961). Sentimentale ma ancora attuale, Julius al top con altri quattro corni francesi e George Duvivier, Ray Barreto, Gil Melle. Prodotto da Quincy Jones con gli arrangiamenti di ...

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News: Recording

Recent Listening: Tom Varner

Recent Listening: Tom Varner

Tom Varner, Heaven and Hell (Omnitone). When Varner moved from New York to Seattle in 2006, he left behind none of his French horn virtuosity, compositional skill or avant-garde daring. Heaven and Hell is his meditation on changes in the world and in his life since the 9/11 attack, and on the evolution of his approach ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Seattle Times: Tom Varner Brings Jazz French Horn to a Sacred Space

Seattle Times: Tom Varner Brings Jazz French Horn to a Sacred Space

From The Seattle Times: At its best, jazz is hand-tailored music that can be shaped to fit just about any setting. For French-horn master Tom Varner, a concert in the intimate, resonant Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center offers an opportunity to design a program calibrated for a sacred space. Saturday’s performance, part of ...

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Second Communion

Label: OmniTone
Released: 2002
Track listing: 1.Watts 2,Complete Communion: 2.Complete Communion 3.And Now 4.Golden Heart 5.Remembrance 6.Paris Ambulance Song/Complete Communion (reprise) 7.Cherryco 8.Don's Big View 9.Leaving Malaga 10.Elephantasy 11.Don's Hymn

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Article: Album Review

Tom Varner: Second Communion

Read "Second Communion" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


French hornist Tom Varner's previous OmniTone release, Swimming was considered by many as one of the finest modern jazz releases of 1999. On his follow-up, the artist renders a keenly perceptive tribute to the late trumpeter Don Cherry. Part of the beauty resides within Varner's ability to interject a sense of duality into his compositional forums ...

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The Swiss Duos

Label: HighNote
Released: 2000

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Martian Heartache

Label: Soul Note
Released: 1999

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Swimming

Label: OmniTone
Released: 1999

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Article: Album Review

Tom Varner: Swimming

Read "Swimming" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Other than being a top flight and much in demand session musician, french hornist Tom Varner has rapidly established a reputation as being a formidable composer-leader resulting from a string of highly successful solo recordings. Here, on Swimming Varner helps inaugurate the promising newOmniTonelabel which has jumped out of the gate rather quickly with excellent new ...


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