Sounds of Timeless Jazz reviews Orrin Evans “Flip the Script”…
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Flip The Script
Orrin Evans
Pianist Orrin Evans’ Flip the Scriptis a confident display of his trio’s musical interplay that features bassist Ben Wolfe and drummer Donald Edwards on ten great tracks. This straight-ahead session offers some daring swing, audacious hard-bop, and forward-thinking avant-garde improvisations in an evocative program. The recording ...Read More
Dan Bilawsky on Brandon Wright “Journeyman”…
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Saxophonist Brandon Wright sells himself a little short with the title he selected for his sophomore release. While he has been honing his skills while working in the employ of artists like trombonist John Fedchock, E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg and trumpet legend Doc Severinsen, he’s hardly an apprentice at this point. WrightR ...Read More
Bruce Lindsay reviews Brandon Wright “Journeyman”….
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Beware of album titles that seem to damn with faint praise. Although saxophonist Brandon Wright takes inspiration for the title of his second album from the words of novelist Cormac McCarthy, Journeyman is a term that usually conjures up an image of a reliable, hard-working, solid but uninspiring type of person. All admirable qualities, of course, but hardly earth shattering ...Read More
The first review is in for Orrin Evans “Flip the Script”…
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In the days of the digital download and advanced ordering of new releases there are some records simply too good to wait for – this is one.
When we last heard from Orrin Evans the release was Freedom. Evans pays homage to some of the Philly greats that influenced his sound and fueled his passion. Now we have Flip The Script which is simply Evans not reinventing the ...Read More
Some nice coverage for Ralph Bowen on SaxShed…
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Heads up SaxShed.com readers! Ralph Bowen has done it again. You can check out the newest release “Total Eclipse” from Posi-tone Records on May 29, 2012.
The press release below tells a bit about Ralph’s newest release “Total Eclipse”:
“Saxophonist Ralph Bowen reaches for new vistas andsu rpasses himself with his latest release “Total Eclipse.” Bowen plays with ...Read More
SomethingElse Reviews on Brandon Wright “Journeyman”…
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Journeyman is sax specialist Brandon Wright’s second time out as a leader and for this go around he brought some of his cohorts in the Mingus Big Band in the studio with him: David Kikoski on piano, Boris Kozlov on bass and Donald Edwards on drums. What these guys might lack in the big name draw of Wright’s first album Boiling Point (2010) they make up for in chem ...Read More
Another review for Jared Gold “Golden Child”…
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JARED GOLD
“Golden Child”
(Posi-Tone)
Hammond B3 expert Jared Gold’s work as a sideman has been nothing short of sensational, and that streak continues on saxman Ralph Bowen’s upcoming release “Total Eclipse.” (More on that one in a future episode.) Gold’s own efforts as a leader, however, have been less than stellar. Thankfully, “Golden Child” breaks that stre ...Read More
Lucid Culture on Steve Horowitz “New Monsters”…
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Fun Stuff from Steve Horowitz’s New Monsters
Funny jazz – there just isn’t enough of it. Happily, there’s bass guitarist Steve Horowitz’s recent New Monsters album, which follows an often comedic trajectory into the future of where melodic jazz is going. It seems to be Posi-Tone’s entry in the youngish eclectic kitchen-sink combo sweepstakes, and it is ...Read More
Dan Bilawsky reviews Tom Tallitsch “Heads or Tales”…
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Jazz musicians are often lauded for how different they are from one another, but all of the most notable musicians who wear the jazz label actually have one thing in common: expertise in telling a story. When theory, technique and stylistic divisiveness are all removed from the equation, musicians are left with the not-so-simple task of creating aural narratives worth followin ...Read More
A couple of new reviews for Orrin Evans and Ralph Bowen….
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ORRIN EVANS/Flip the Script: With a new trio, Evans plays piano like it’s a bebop instrument using it to anchor a straight ahead date with a lot of modern jazz overtones. Left leaning but not from the church basement, this is seasoned, high octane piano trio music that goes from racket to joyful noise to pulse pounding. Sitting down jazz for those not afraid to push the ped ...Read More