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Skip Spratt of SaxShed.com reviews Ehud Asherie “Upper West Side”…
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Tenor Saxophonist Harry Allen joins thirty-year-old pianist Ehud Asherie on their newest release Upper West Side on Posi-Tone Records.
The recent release features Asherie’s piano and Allen’s tenor in a traditional jazz duo setting. The two traditionalists compliment each other on a slew of standards such as It Had to be You, Our Love is Here to Stay and Have You Met Miss Jone ...Read More
Brent Black reviews Fowser/Gillece “DuoTone”…
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In 1958 Stan Getz and Cal Tjader released their Sextet recording originally on the Fantasy label. Leaning towards the West Coast Cool sound with a more bossa influenced swing, Getz and Tjader started a trend that is continued to this day with DuoTone from Ken Fowser and Behan Gillece. With the cool dialed back and the swing kicked up a notch we have ten original tunes tha ...Read More
Bruce Lindsay gives a review of Steve Horowitz “New Monsters”…
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Old monsters? They were frightening, gargantuan, mythical beasts: fire-breathing, blood-lusting and not at all willing to put together anything close to a danceable riff.New Monsters, at least as envisioned by bassist Steve Horowitz on this Posi-Tone album, are a much more engaging bunch. There’s still some fire-breathing in evidence, but the blood lust is kept at bay in ...Read More
Sax Shed reviews Doug Webb “Swing Shift”…
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Tenor Saxophonist Doug Webb recently released Swing Shift on Posi-Tone Records. The recording features Webb on tenor, Stanley Clarke on bass, Gerry Gibbs on drums and three different pianists, Larry Goldings, Joe Bagg and Mahesh Balasoorlya.
According to the liner notes, “Swing Shift represents the third record from one fruitful day of recording, in which I gathered the great S ...Read More
Another great review for Ehud Asherie “Upper West Side”…
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The upper west side may well be the epi-center for jazz in the western world. Posi-Tone along with pianist Ehud Asherie and tenor saxophone legend Harry Allen have captured a delicious swing for the jazz purist. There is a vibrant, tight and incredibly sophisticated elegance that permeates this stellar recording.
From the opening tune “Learnin’ The Blues” th ...Read More
SomethingElse! reviews Jared Gold “Golden Child”…
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Coming off the magnificent All Wrapped Up, Jared Gold is back just under a year later with Golden Child. A program that alternates standards with his originals, Golden Child is another parade of Gold’s advanced B3 articulations. Whereas on Wrapped he delved more into knotty arrangements and modalisms atypical of organ jazz, he returns to the organ/guitar/drums att ...Read More
JazzWrap reviews Doug Webb “Swing Shift”…
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The most important things about any group that has been/recorded together for long period of time is consistency and chemistry. In the case of Doug Webb, this consistency and chemistry came of the course of one long day which has given birth to three recordings including his latest, Swing Shift. These recordings represent a number of snapshots over those hours with various ...Read More
Raul DaGama Rose reviews Steve Horowitz “New Monsters”…
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Despite the suggestion of the title, New Monsters is not actually crawling with legions of denizens from the netherworld. The promise of monsters has more to do with the unleashing of musical forces as diverse as klezmer and Erik Satie. Moreover, far from being a quaint experiment, the album takes a radical road—one that was travelled by Don Byron on Plays the Music of ...Read More
The Jazz Word on Jared Gold “Golden Child”…
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A greased-up organ trio version of Sam Cooke’s civil rights cry “A Change is Gonna Come” may seem a little far-fetched. In the hands of Jared Gold, however, the tune’s melodic character shapes a thoughtful arrangement, full of soulful character. The same can be said of the organist’s take on Johnny Nash’s pop staple “I Can See Clea ...Read More
Glenn Astarita reviews Steve Horowitz “New Monsters”…
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San Francisco Bay Area bassist Steve Horowitz of The Code International amid copious projects with largely cutting-edge instrumentalists leads a manifold progressive-jazz effort, augmented by the artists’ ‘monstrous’ chops. With a superfine lineup, featuring reedman Steve Adams of ROVA notoriety and tenor sax ace Dan Plonsey who gets credit for writing all the original pieces o ...Read More