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Bill Cunliffe/Gary Foster: It's About Love

Read "It's About Love" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The genius of this teaming of pianist Bill Cunliffe and saxophonist Gary Foster on It's About Love is their ability to play jazz that evokes images of dapper men decked out in gleaming tuxedos, elegant bejewled ladies draped in sparkling evening gowns, all sipping from long-stemmed glasses of bubbly champagne. Classy sounding stuff. And Bill Cunliffe ...

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Bill Cunliffe/Gary Foster: It's About Love

Read "It's About Love" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


This album is a second volume presenting the music of composer Reed Kotler, following Bobby Shew-Gary Foster and Friends Play the Music of Reed Kotler (2002). It's About Love resumes with 13 songs as played by Gary Foster, Bill Cunliffe, Jeff D'Angelo and Tim Pleasant. Foster is one of Los Angeles' best kept secrets. I've heard ...

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How My Heart Sings

Label: Torii Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Here's to Neil, City tune, Mother of Earl, Silverado Trail, How My Heart Sings, Return to Love, Earl's Blues, Elsa, Heads or Tails, Soiree

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Bill Cunliffe Sextet: How My Heart Sings

Read "How My Heart Sings" reviewed by Michael P. Gladstone


On this record subtitled “The Music of Earl Zindars," Bill Cunliffe pays tribute to the composer who wrote the jazz standard “How My Heart Sings," which began life as the exclusive property of Bill Evans in 1956. Throughout a lengthy friendship and business relationship, Evans championed a number of Zindars' songs, such as “Elsa," on his ...

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Bill Cunliffe Sextet: How My Heart Sings

Read "How My Heart Sings" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The name Earl Zindars might not ring a bell, unless you're a fan of the late pianist Bill Evans, who was a Zindars fan. Evans ' for those of you who check out songwriting credits ' recorded several Zindars tunes in his career, including a classic version of “How My Heart Sings," the title track of ...

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Play The Music Of Reed Kotler

Label: Torii Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Night to Remember; Calypso Bop; Jenny; Just Having Some Fun; One for Bobby; You are the One; A Distant Song; Take Me With You; One for Smith; Blues for T.H.; Beautiful Evening; Blues for Kenny B.; Coop; Nice Groove; Darling I Love You; Tears for Evans; Happy Day; Too Soon; I Never Knew Clifford; Tuesday Blues; I Couldn't Have Loved You More.

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Bobby Shew, Gary Foster and Friends: Play The Music Of Reed Kotler

Read "Play The Music Of Reed Kotler" reviewed by Jim Santella


It's a refreshing, straight-ahead quintet that interprets these songs by San Francisco Bay area composer Reed Kotler. All five members of the quintet solo throughout this 2-CD set; but it's the distinctive, front line work of Bobby Shew and Gary Foster that thrills. Shew provided the musical arrangements. As his schedule reveals, the trumpeter is noted ...


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