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The Joe Mullen Quartet: Lost World Tango

Read "Lost World Tango" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Drummer Joe Mullen's Lost World Tango presents a highly collaborative trumpet-and-rhythm section quartet. Jazz foursomes are more commonly led by a saxophonists, with notable exceptions being trumpeter Miles Davis' Musing of Miles (Prestige, 1955); pianist Herbie Hancock's classic Empyrean Isles (Blue Note, 1964); Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's marvelous ECM series with his supporting trio of young ...

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Ron Thomas: Two Lonely People

Read "Two Lonely People" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


A spin through pianist Ron Thomas's discography as a leader doesn't always directly point toward the music found on Two Lonely People. His two masterful trio outings, Music in Three Parts (Art of Life Records, 2006) and Doloroso (Art of Life Records, 2006) are both full of abstract and elastic originals; the highly electric and compellingly ...

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Night Mood

Label: Vectordisc Records
Released: 2010
Track listing: Night Mood; Hectic Street; Trooper Duke; Stumblefunk; Blue Mountain Bossa Nova; Camel Humps; Room Without a Window; Pastorale.

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Leaf Juice

Label: Vectordisc Records
Released: 2010

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Paul Klinefelter: Night Mood

Read "Night Mood" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Connoisseurs of jazz trios led by pianists may be familiar with bassist Paul Klinefelter's contribution to Ron Thomas's superb Music in Three Parts (Art of Life Records, 2006). That particular piano trio outing, one of that year's finest, featured Klinefelter's big bass sound interacting in a three-way Zen dance with pianist Thomas and the extraordinary drummer ...

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Galaxy

Label: Vectordisc Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Galaxy; Contessina; Feelin' So Morose; Forking Paths; Nightlands; Five Pieces 1973.

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Bobby Rose / Ron Thomas: Galaxy

Read "Galaxy" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


On Galaxy a couple of mainstream jazz guys sit down and plug in to see where the interstellar winds will take them.The profiles of guitarist Bobby Rose and keyboardist Ron Thomas, subject to the laws of gravity, have not achieved the heights commensurate with their talent--an old jazz story. But both are immensely creative ...

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Wings of the Morning

Label: Vectordisc Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Wings of the Morning; Cossacks and Wolves on the Frozen River; Orpheus; Oostkapelle; En Reve; Dusk of the Nightlands.

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17 Solo Piano Improvisations

Label: Vectordisc Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17.

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Ron Thomas: 17 Solo Piano Improvisations

Read "17 Solo Piano Improvisations" reviewed by Budd Kopman


Music is the language of sound, of vibrations; and hence, at a basic level, of physics. The history of Western music is an effort to understand and control how these vibrations interact and relate to each other, always with an ear towards how they affect the listener. Music's emotional affect on us is its greatest mystery. ...


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