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Jordan Young is Artist of the Month at Critical Jazz…
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Jordan Young is a prime example of the incredible young talent that Posi-Tone seems to hit pay dirt with year after year. What makes Young special is very simple. Melody. The art of the melody and a deep respect for not just jazz but for all music where I strong melodic sense or feel is something that is celebrated. Sure, Young can reharm a cover with the best of them but what ...Read More
Jazz Wax writes up Jordan Young…
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One of the best organ trio albums I’ve heard in a while is by drummer Jordan Young’s Cymbal Melodies (Posi-Tone). Too many albums of this sort are overly moody or too candy pop. This one is just right—upbeat, groovy and melodic. And there are superb tracks here: By the Time I Get to Phoenix, Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, Lee Morgan’sFree Wheelin’ ...Read More
Jordan Young gets a mention on The Jazz Breakfast
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And the organ trios with a bit of added saxophone just keep coming… This one is led by drummer Young with Brian Charette on organ. Avi Rothbard adds some guitar and Joe Sucato is the saxophonist.
The book is pretty straight-ahead readings of classic guitar and organ material from the likes of Lee Morgan and Grant Greene with some covers including Jimmy Webb’s By The Time ...Read More
Lucid Culture on Jordan Young “Cymbal Melodies”…
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It’s been too long without a B3 record here. Luckily, drummer Jordan Young’s new one Cymbal Melodies is just out on Posi-tone. The title is ironic since Young plays this one very low-key and in the pocket: there are cymbals here but they’re typically providing judiciously whispery atmospherics rather than ostentatiously whirling sonic snowstorms. Recorded in a s ...Read More
Thomas Conrad reviews Ralph Bowen “Total Eclipse” for JazzTimes…
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Ralph Bowen plays a pure strain of postmodern tenor saxophone. He is hugely proficient technically and consistently spills his guts. Take “Into the City.” Its quick, jagged, asymmetrical head is like a call to arms. Bowen builds from a few repeated adjacent tones to long convoluted lines that sound like onslaughts until you hear that they are actually sets of subtle variations ( ...Read More
Bruce Lindsay writes up Ed Cherry “It’s All Good”…
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Guitarist Ed Cherry has been playing professionally since the early ’70s, as a sideman to musicians such as Tim Hardin, Jimmy McGriff, Henry Threadgill andJimmy Smith. Most famously, he spent over fifteen years in Dizzy Gillespie’s band, remaining with the group until the trumpeter’s death in 1993. Perhaps because of his busy career as a sideman his disco ...Read More
SomethingElse Reviews Jordan Young…
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A few years ago Pat Metheny made a solo guitar “covers” record What’s It All About, a record I adore as much for the melodies he picked as how he nursed them. In discussing the idea behind the album. Metheny said,
I was born in 1954 and all of these songs were songs from the Top 40 during my childhood and early teen years. It was a period when harmony and melody we ...Read More
The Jazz Breakfast on Ed Cherry “It’s All Good”…
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Guitarist Ed Cherry played in Dizzy Gillespie’s last band, and since then has also worked with Hamiett Bluiett, Henry Threadgill, Oliver Lake and Steve Coleman among others.
Those names might suggest an avant-garde approach, but for his first disc on Posi-Tone Cherry chooses to play it mainstream in an organ trio format with the guitar on top.
Pat Bianchi is on organ and Byr ...Read More
JazzWrap on Jordan Young “Cymbal Melodies”…
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I said last year that Jordan Young had great skill as a leader as well as performer. His group is solid and concise.
Making the jump from his independent self-titled debut to the perfect home of Posi-Tone Records, Jordan Young delivers his newest release, Cymbal Melodies. And it is just as pronounced and confident as his debut. A strong step forward.
The two opening numbe ...Read More
The Jazz Word on Ed Cherry “It’s All Good”…
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Veteran guitarist Ed Cherry, a longtime sideman with Dizzy Gillespie, swings with streetwise finesse on It’s All Good for Posi-Tone Records. The subtleness of Cherry, along with Pat Bianchi on organ and drummer Byron Landham create a club-like vibe caught in the studio. The trio captures the lyrical essence of 1960s Wayne Shorter with two of the saxophonists compos ...Read More