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Adison Evans: Meridian
by Hrayr Attarian
On her second release as a leader, the buoyant Meridian, saxophonist Adison Evans demonstrates remarkable maturity as both a composer and a performer. Evans drew inspiration from the idyllic Tuscan village where she retreated to pen the music that comprises this intriguing album. The opening title-track sets the mood with the right balance of ...
Troy Roberts: Nu-Jive Perspective
by Mike Jurkovic
Though still a pup age-wise, Australian-born saxophonist Troy Roberts has two Grammy nominations under his belt and has shared the stage and studio with luminaries that have defined the musical spectrum, including Aretha Franklin, Van Morrison, Joey DeFrancesco, Christian McBride, Orrin Evans, and Dee Dee Bridgewater. Nu-Jive Perspective, his eighth disc as leader and third with ...
Tales & Tones
By Troy Roberts
Label: Inner Circle Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: Decoration; Trams; Rivera Mountain; Bernie’s Tune; Cotu Chi Chi, Chi; Take the ‘A’ Train; Pickapoppy; Mr. Pinononnk; Boozy Blues.
Hallways
By Jared T Hall
Label: Hollistic MusicWorks
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. Wanderer (5:43) 2. Hallways (5:39) 3. Love, Laugh and Cry (6:15) 4. Allure (6:56)
5. Visions and Dreams (5:13) 6. Brother Spiro (6:12) 7. Meditations (7:30) 8. Tones
for Jones (7:40) 9. Aphelion (7:07)
Jared Hall: Hallways
by Paul Rauch
It has been a long road for trumpeter/composer Jared Hall. That road has been a path cloistered in jazz education, starting in his native Spokane, WA studying with Dan Keberle at Whitworth University, to his masters completion at Indiana University under David Baker. At that point, Hall had a decision to make, in terms ...
Berta Moreno: Little Steps
by Troy Dostert
When first seeing the title of Berta Moreno's debut record, one might be tempted to interpret it as a self-effacing gesture. Perhaps the tenor saxophonist is acknowledging her debt to the giant steps of the master of the tenor, John Coltrane himself? Upon further investigation, however, Moreno makes clear in her notes to the album that ...
Troy Roberts: Tales & Tones
by Jerome Wilson
Troy Roberts is a saxophonist from Australia who has made his way in America working with the likes of Christian McBride, Jeff “Tain" Watts and Joey DeFrancesco. On this CD he demonstrates a forceful saxophone sound married to original ideas in rhythm and tempo.Roberts' plays deep, swooping sax mostly over tricky, pounding beats set ...
Myles Wright: Manhattan EP
by Troy Dostert
For evidence that the big-band tradition is alive and well, look no further than this release from composer and arranger Myles Wright. His second self-produced recording after 2015's LA EP, he's shifted his focus to the other coast this time, and with a top-flight crew of New York musicians to perform four ambitious, infectious charts, it's ...
Troy Roberts: Tales & Tones
by Geannine Reid
Saxophonist and composer Troy Roberts continues to present music that retains a distinctive strength and originality, still vastly rooted in tradition, while firmly grounded in new perspectives. Hailing from the remote location of Perth, West Australia, Roberts has received numerous awards including 3 consecutive DownBeat Jazz Soloist Awards, a Grammy Nomination medal, and was the only ...
Greg Osby: Saxophone “Griot”
by Victor L. Schermer
The griot is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician, a repository of oral tradition who is often seen as a societal leader. Saxophonist Greg Osby recently was excited to meet some griots on his travels. While he is originally from St. Louis, he himself is a griot in many senses of the ...
