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Some more coverage for Tom Tallitsch “Ride”…
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New Jazz from NJ Saxophonist Tom Tallitsch – Ride!! (Video)
by EKK • May 16, 2014 •
So this morning I loaded up two new jazz albums on the iPhone to serve as the soundtrack for my trip to Trader Joe’s, and then proceeded to listen to neither of the albums!! What I did listen to on the way over was Ride the great new release from New Jersey resident Tom Ta ...Read More
Dave Sumner makes Orrin Evans “Mother’s Touch” a pick of the week on eMusic…
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Orrin Evans’ Captain Black Big Band, Mother’s Touch: Excellent big band release, and the first studio album by Evans’ Captain Black Big Band. Boisterous, almost mad with enthusiasm at times between the solos and group efforts, there’s plenty of huge sounds and expansive views. But the most amazing quality of this album is when Evans scales things down for quiet inte ...Read More
ICON’s Nick Bewsey makes Orrin Evans “Mother’s Touch” one of his picks for the month…
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Orrin Evans’ Captain Black Big Band: Mother’s Touch: Posi-tone – Orrin Evans is a true jazz advocate. One of the busiest leaders on the scene with more than 20 solo albums in his discography along with countless sideman appearances, Evans has a second-to-none work ethic in and around New York as well as his hometown of Philadelphia. An ...Read More
AAJ’s Glenn Astarita reviews Ralph Bowen “Standard Deviation”…
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Ralph Bowen: Standard Deviation (2014)
By
GLENN ASTARITA,
Published: May 20, 2014
Track review of “Yesterdays”
Tenor saxophonist Ralph Bowen (Out Of The Blue, Horace Silver, Michel Camillo) is a highly regarded New York-based artiste and an idea man who can stand with the best of them. With his fifth solo venture for Posi- Tone Records Bowen tackles standa ...Read More
Midwest Record on “Mother’s Touch”…
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ORRIN EVANS’ CAPTAIN BLACK BIG BAND/Mother’s Touch: Right from the opening, this feels like a classic big band set. He might be a piano man, but he’s got the arranger’s chops of instrumentalists from other axes from the last 50 years of greats. Starting out by sort of taking it to church, Evans and his vast collection of players knock it ...Read More
Ralph Bowen is on WBGO’s radar….
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Saxophonist Ralph Bowen has made his mark on the New York jazz scene for over three decades with what he calls “casual perfectionism.”
He’s been documented on over 70 recordings, including those with Horace Silver, Kenny Garrett, Renee Rosnes, Michel Camilo and Steve Wilson. Bowen has appeared with Art Blakey, Michael Brecker, Ron Carter, Kenny Barron and Gary Bart ...Read More
Another nice piece on David Ake “Bridges”….
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David Ake. Bridges.
Posi-Tone, 2013.
There’s a new jazz guy in town. He’s not really new, but he’s got a job here now, so that makes him ours (“gooble gobble, one of us”), whether he wants to be considered a Northeast Ohio artist or not. David Ake is the relatively new Chair of the Department of Music at Case Western Reserve University, having reloca ...Read More
Another review for Ralph Bowen’s new release…
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RALPH BOWEN/Standard Deviation: Here’s an experiment that really works well. Sax man Bowen tackles the standards, one generally presented in mellow tones, but he changes things up and gives them a hard edge. Solidly swinging post-bop, Bowen and his crew get inside the music and find things generally never brought out on these tunes except in church basements, if at all. H ...Read More
SomethingElse Reviews Ralph Bowen’s new release “Standard Deviation”…
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Tenor saxophone ace Ralph Bowen had been such a non-stop record-making machine since he signed up withPosi-Tone Records around 2009, but he spent 2013 catching his breath, so to speak. And now, he returns with his fifth release for the label, Standard Deviation (out May 13).
Returning to the usual acoustic quartet format following his organ jazz encounter with Jared ...Read More
A nice gig review for Orrin Evans Captain Black Big Band….
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Orrin Evans’ Captain Black Big Band Smolders at Smoke
Not to disrespect everything that pianist Orrin Evans has done with smaller combos, whether as a bandleader or with tenor sax titan JD Allen, but his greatest moments so far could well be with his Captain Black Big Band. Over the past couple of years, that mighty group has earned a reputation as arguably the h ...Read More