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Testimony

Label: Tuscarora Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Testimony; Working Hard for the Joneses; Fly with the Wind; Natural Woman; High Priest; Little Black Lucille; Evolution; Way Back Home.

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Howard Johnson and Gravity: Testimony

Read "Testimony" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
October 20, 2017

Il Gravity di Howard Johnson è un organico dedito esclusivamente alla timbrica grave (basso tuba, principalmente) con solisti e sezione ritmica. Il progetto risale addirittura al 1968 ma registrò il suo primo disco solo nel 1996 perchè tutte le etichette lo rifiutavano. Alla fine Johnson convinse i dirigenti della Verve, che non se ne pentirono viste ...

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Howard Johnson and Gravity: Testimony

Read "Testimony" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
January 26, 2017

Howard Johnson really should need no introduction. He's played with many of the greats including Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, Hank Crawford, Jack De Johnette and Gil Evans (his solo on “Voodoo Child" was a highlight of Evans's Jimi Hendrix tribute album). He also appeared on Carla Bley's seminal 1971 album Escalator Over The Hill. Throughout his ...

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Howard Johnson and Gravity: Testimony

Read "Testimony" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 13, 2017

Those who see the tuba as a sluggish, unwieldy instrument capable only of rounding out a musical composition in the lower register may have to rethink that appraisal after listening to Testimony, in which multi-instrumentalist and tuba master Howard Johnson ushers no less than half a dozen tubas and rhythm through their paces in a session ...