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Vanessa Wagner: Variations

Read "Variations" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


As viewed through a jazz prism, what is a variation if not an improvisation written down? A transcription of Coleman Hawkin's famous 1939 recording of “Body and Soul" is no different than Bach's Goldberg Variations or Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. All examples present a theme and then melodic variations over the harmonic structure of the ...

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Variations

Label: Laborie Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Summertime; Blossom (var. 1); Facing him (var. 2); Jerusalem of gold (var. 3); Libera me; Fugue (var. 1); Eli ELi (var. 2); Pie Jesu (var. 3); Ose Shalom; Drops (var. 1); Le temps du Conteur (var. 2); Fragile; Hommage a Francis Paudras.

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Yaron Herman: Variations

Read "Variations" reviewed by Dr. Judith Schlesinger


Variations is Israeli-born pianist Yaron Herman's first solo release. Now 25, he didn't start studying piano until he was sixteen. At nineteen he moved to Boston to attend Berklee, but was turned off by its competitive climate; a return stopover in Paris and a spontaneous jam session led to a recording contract and a new home. ...

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Variations

Label: WEPA Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Jolo (Patneaude) 2. Variation On A Variation (Muscatello) 3. The Strega (Muscatello) 4. The Longing (Lukas) 5. O.F.F. (Muscatello) 6. Hide The Fat Guy (Whelchel/Muscatello) 7. Erodiade (Muscatello) 8. Freedom Trane (Patneaude) 9. Tons Of Fun (Muscatello)

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Brian Patneaude Quartet: Variations

Read "Variations" reviewed by Alexander M. Stern


Any self-help guru will tell you that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. In jazz, that truism can easily apply to debut albums: You only get to make one. A strong first album can set the pace for the rest of an artist’s career as a leader. Think of debuts like ...


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