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Music and More review for Jared Gold “All Wrapped Up”…
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Jared Gold – All Wrapped Up (Posi-Tone, 2011)
Organist Jared Gold builds a fine mainstream outing of hard-bop, blues and ballads on this album in conjunction with Ralph Bowen on tenor saxophone, Jim Rotondi on trumpet and flugelhorn and Quincy Davis on drums. They open the the record fast with a couple of fine cookers, “My Sentiments Exactly” and “Get Out of M ...Read More
Lucid Culture reviews Noah Haidu “Slipstream”…
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Noah Haidu’s Slipstream Floats Away
Jazz pianist Noah Haidu has an intriguing new album just out on Posi-tone. Haidu has an individual style – he wanders and hints at melody, with deft use of chromatics, rather than hitting it head-on. That role is left to the horns here, and he’s got a couple of really good ones, Jeremy Pelt on trumpet and Jon Irabagon on alt ...Read More
Posi-lutely (CD reviews) by Peter Hum
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Los Angeles-based Posi-Tone Records sends me red-meat jazz discs faster than I can keep up with them. Here’s what I think of some of the label’s most recent releases from musicians who have been on its roster for a while now:
All Tied Up (Posi-Tone)
Jared Gold
The latest CD from organist Jared Gold could equally have been billed as an outing by the Posi-Tone Al ...Read More
Dan Bilawsky reviews Jared Gold “All Wrapped Up” for AAJ….
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There’s a noticeable change in organist Jared Gold’s sonic template of choice, before All Wrapped Up even begins. While two out of Gold’s three prior releases were quartet outings that used saxophone as the lone horn voice, all three releases were rooted in the traditional organ trio instrumental format. A different guitarist graced each one of those records ...Read More
Sax Shed reviews Dave Juarez “Round Red Light”…
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Dave Juarez – Round Red Light
Barcelona native Dave Juarez has released Round Red Light on Posi-Tone Records. Guitarist Juarez features extraordinary tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake, prodigious John Escreet on piano, Lauren Falls on Bass and Bastian Weinhold on drums.
In this day and age we am seeing far more EPKs sent out to reviewers and promoters rather than the traditio ...Read More
Some more coverage for the new Mike DiRubbo “Chronos”CD….
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Alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo has been around the New York scene for a while, doing the straight-ahead hard-bop thing. He studied with Jackie McLean, and has played with a number of highly regarded musicians older than himself, including Eddie Henderson, John Hicks and Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown. Chronos is his sixth CD as a leader, and his second for the Posi-Tone label. ...Read More
Jazz Wrap covers Jared Gold “All Wrapped Up”….
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TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 2011
Jared Gold
Jared Gold (organ)
All Wrapped Up (Posi-Tone Records)
Jim Rotondi (trumpet)
Ralph Bowen (sax)
Quincy Davis (drums)
Jared Gold is one of those organ players that uses the instrument more like a piano than an instrument to bang out chords. Like the legends Larry Young, Shirley Scott, or Jack McDuff, he uses his compositions and ba ...Read More
Raul D’Gama Rose reviews “Inner Flights” for AAJ…
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Inside Benjamin Drazen is an old soul, nestling cheek-by-jowl in a fertile mind, brimful with new ideas that undulate and flow beautifully from his alto saxophone. That he is able to take control of this force, and harness its power to open a virtual door to the temple of his muses—running the gamut of saxophonists from Charlie Parker to John Coltrane, and almost certainly ...Read More
Richard Kamins Step Tempest review for Jared Gold “All Wrapped Up”…
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There’s something about the Hammond B-3 organ that makes it just right for “soul-jazz.” Over the years, musicians such as the “Jimmys” – Smith and McGriff – Charles Earland, Larry Young and Joey De Francesco have played all sorts of tunes utilizing the big organ.
Jared Gold continues in the long tradition of blending hard-bop a ...Read More
Urban Flux chimes in about Dave Juarez “Round Red Light”….
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Dave Juarez -][- ROUND RED LIGHT – [Posi-Tone Records, 2011]
It’s all systems go as Barcelona native Dave Juarez takes us along a new Jazz tangent on his breathtaking debut release “Round Red Light.” This exciting musical program covers a wide variety of avenues as guitarist Juarez’s brilliant original compositions are presented by an amazing group of pla ...Read More