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Ways & Means

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: Nefarious Notions; Squatters; Champion Of Honesty; Onodaga; The Business End; Legal Action; Fallout; Pow Wow; Gargoyles.

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James Carney: Ways & Means

Read "Ways & Means" reviewed by Terrell Kent Holmes


Pianist James Carney takes the parameters involved in scoring films and applies them with the discipline of a jazz composer on the ambitious Ways & Means, the kind of challenging and cohesive work that listeners have come to expect from this exemplary musician. Carney's band is as great a gathering of talent as ...

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James Carney Group: Ways & Means

Read "Ways & Means" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza


Keyboardist James Carney framed the compositions on this recording from a cinematic perspective. Three of the tunes are improvisations and Carney succeeds with both his stances. He and his artful band bring in plenty of drama, a sense of adventure and pure emotional force. Carney is an accomplished pianist who finds his groove in ...

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James Carney Group: Ways & Means

Read "Ways & Means" reviewed by Matt Marshall


It's good to see the jazz community is not shying away from pressing political and social issues of the day. Guitarist Brad Shepik, with his Human Activity Suite (Songlines, 2009), and drummer Alex Cline, with Continuation (Cryptogramophone, 2009), have both made musical pleas for the environment in 2009, following in the socially conscious footsteps of Max ...

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James Carney Group: Ways & Means

Read "Ways & Means" reviewed by Troy Collins


Inspired by his work scoring Edward Sloman's 1925 silent film, His People, for the Syracuse International Film Festival in 2006, New York-based keyboardist James Carney continued to explore the narrative potential of cinematic structures. Funded in part by commissions from Chamber Music America and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Carney produced Ways & Means, a “virtual ...


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