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The Jazz Page covers Doug Webb “Another Scene”…
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Veteran saxman Doug Webb has a big-time jazz saxophone voice, in league with some of the great purveyors of the instrument. This sound is on full display on his latest effort Another Scene. Webb can burn hard on a swing tune or find the tenderest approach on a ballad. He knows his stuff and he’s joined by a collection of musicians who know theirs as well. Joining Webb on the pro ...Read More
Audiophile Audition covers Doug Webb “Another scene”…
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Doug Webb – Another Scene – Posi-Tone PR 8115, 61:56 [10/22/13] ****:
(Doug Webb – tenor sax; Peter Zak – piano; Dwayne Burno – bass; Rudy Royston – drums)
West Coast-based saxophonist Doug Webb continues to impress. For his fourth CD on the Posi-Tone label, Webb has the support of an East Coast rhythm section to match his intensity and creativity. Doug is based in the Los A ...Read More
Music and More reviews Doug Webb “Another Scene”…
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Saxophonist Doug Webb grew up in California before moving east to study at Berklee. He is in great demand as a sideman and a film score composer, and this album presents him leading a band with Peter Zak on piano, Dwayne Bruno on bass and Rudy Royston on drums. This is a well played and accessible modern mainstream jazz album that takes its inspiration from the lik ...Read More
Midwest Record reviews Doug Webb “Another Scene”…
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DOUG WEBB/Another Scene: Sax man Webb puts LA in his rear view mirror for a while and kicks it big apple style. Don’t worry, he didn’t leave any of his hard driving playing in his rear view mirror. Too driving a set for hipsters, this is for real jazzbos that want to dig the groove that doesn’t quit. Solid stuff from a canon that keeps growing in the righ ...Read More
Music and More on Shauli Einav “Generations”…
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Shauli Einav is an up and coming jazz saxophonist from Israel. He has a light and buoyant tone that is very appealing on tenor and soprano saxophones and the remainder of the group consists of Itai Kriss on flute, Don Friedman on piano, Or Bareket on bass and Eliot Zigmund on drums. “Thermo Blues” opens the album with the quartet playing with great dexterity, an ...Read More
Brent Black on Doug Webb “Another Scene”…
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Doug Webb may well be the best unknown saxophonist in America.
Doug Webb has released three critically acclaimed recordings on the Posi-Tone label. So who is Doug Webb? Having played and recorded with such luminaries as Stanley Clarke, Rod Stewart, and Pancho Sanchez there is no questioning Webb’s versatility. Small screen work for Webb includes such smash television ...Read More
Dan Bilawsky/AAJ reviews Idan SAnthous “There You Are”…
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This debut release from composer/multi-reedist Idan Santhaus was a long time coming. There You Are actually started to take shape in April of 2008, when four of these tracks were recorded with a solid sixteen piece band, but that was just the beginning. It took three more years for Santhaus to get back into the studio with his jazz orchestra, which was now split between retu ...Read More
Another review for Shauli Einav…
http://midwestrecord.com/
POSI-TONE
SHAULI EINAV/Generations: Jazz sax man Einav only writes a few fingers worth for the handful on display here, but he has the balls to kick it off with one of his own hard bopping originals that just keeps driving with no let up introduces everyone on board, sonically, right out of the box, letting you know everyone came to play and can keep up. Like some of your ...Read More
Midwest Record on Idan Santhaus “There You Are”…
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IDAN SANTHAUS/There You Are: This record is divided into two big band dates with everyone that knows how to blow like a pro in New York on board and showing their stuff. The kind of stuff you could expect from Stan Kenton when he was doing dates that didn’t requite extra showing off, this is the sound of pros that know all about keeping the groove in the grooves. A w ...Read More
Lucid Culture on Idan Santhaus “There You Are”…
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Sweeping Orchestral Big Band Jazz from Idan Santhaus
The big band compositions on Idan Santhaus‘ new Posi-tone album There You Are have steady tempos, bright colors and a slowly unfolding melodicism, sort of a reverse image of Bob Belden’s darkly panoramic Animation project. Santhaus honed his chops as a teenage flutist with the Haifa Youth Orchestra in h ...Read More