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Dave Liebman Group: Expansions - The Puzzle

Read "Expansions - The Puzzle" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Registrato nella primavera del 2015, The Puzzle documenta il lavoro dell'attuale gruppo di Dave Liebman, Expansions, composto da uno storico collaboratore del sassofonista, il bassista Tony Marino, e da giovani musicisti che--con l'eccezione del batterista -contribuiscono tutti alle composizioni. Quattro di queste sono infatti di Liebman, due dell'ancista Matt Vashlishan, due di Marino e ...

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Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio: Live In Studio

Read "Live In Studio" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


È possibile che il nome di questa formazione e il suo stesso leader non vi dicano molto ma guardate chi sono gli altri protagonisti e gli ospiti coinvolti. Il pianista Kenny Barron e il bassista Ron Carter completano il trio mentre si aggiungono Roy Hargrove in quattro brani e Cassandra Wilson in tre. Senza esagerare è ...

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Dave Liebman: Expansions: The Puzzle

Read "Expansions: The Puzzle" reviewed by Budd Kopman


The Puzzle is the terrfic follow-up recording by David Liebman's new group, Expansions, the first being Samsara. No sophomore jinx here; if anything, the group has coalesced further and is even tighter. To throw out a (perhaps meaningless) label, this music could be called hyper-bop in its mix of well-placed dissonance, rhythmic displacements and ...

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Greg Abate & Phil Woods: Kindred Spirits: Live at Chan's

Read "Kindred Spirits: Live at Chan's" reviewed by Edward Blanco


Alto saxophonist Greg Abate is a man who has built a career as a powerhouse reed man and a proponent of the mainstream bebop style, earning the nickname “the prince of bebop." One of the kings of the genre, is unquestionably the legendary Phil Woods who blazed that trail before Abate and others followed. Captured live ...

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Greg Abate & Phil Woods: Kindred Spirits: Live at Chan's

Read "Kindred Spirits: Live at Chan's" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The legendary alto saxophonist Phil Woods' (1931-2015) health was failing at the time Kindred Spirits: Live at Chan's was recorded, but you never know it by listening to the crisp delivery, the vitality of a hot bebop band playing in the mode of the iconic altoist Charlie Parker. Saxophonist Greg Abate joins Woods in the front ...

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Jason Miles/Ingrid Jensen: Kind of New

Read "Kind of New" reviewed by Jeff Winbush


When your first or last name is “Miles" and you play jazz and you make an album dueting with a trumpet player and you call it Kind of New, you're opening yourself up to all sorts of assumptions and expectations. Well, let's get those expectations out of the way. Kind of New is not ...

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Kind of New

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2015
Track listing: Interlude; The Faction of Cool; Super City; Shirley; Film Noir Interlude; Ferrari; Seeing Through the Rain; Close to the Action; Kats Eye; Street Vibe; Twilight Interlude; Sanctuary

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Plucky Strum

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2015
Track listing: Woods Talk; Bluzin' F; Ghost Dancer; S And S; Broken Glass; To Bea; For Jimmy; Charlie Haden; Saint Nick; Before.

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NYC Sessions

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2015
Track listing: The Sixties; Lost Mambo; Endless Waltz; La Comparsa/Mi Montuno; Lost Valentine; My Foolish Heart; Baltic Bolero; Since I Found You; Dark Eyes; Silence; Just A Fool.

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Expansions: The Puzzle

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2015
Track listing: Hat Trick; For J.A.; Vendetta; Good Bait; Sailing; The Puzzle; Off Flow; Continues to Ignore; Off and Off; The Thing that Wouldn’t Leave; Danse de la Fureur


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