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Mark F. Turner reviews Orrin Evans “Captain Black Big Band”…
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Pianist Orrin Evans has been on a roll, with the release of a couple of diamond Posi-Tone releases in 2010: Faith in Action — dedicated to friend and mentor, saxophonist Bobby Watson—and the old school yet highly progressive thinking of The End of Fear , with Tarbaby trio-mates, drummer Nasheet Waits and bassist Eric Revis. But the truth of the matter is that Evans ha ...Read More
Something Else! Interview: Orrin Evans
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Something Else! Interview: Orrin Evans, jazz pianist, composer and bandleader
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Orrin Evans arrived amidst a wave of new jazz performers in the early 1990s. Unlike many of those young lions, however, he managed to bob up from that era’s ultimately empty retro-conservatism. “A lot of those guys, quite frankly,” Orrin says, “just gave too much ...Read More
Tim Niland reviews Ralph Bowen “Power Play”….
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Ralph Bowen – Power Play (Posi-Tone, 2011)
Saxophonist Ralph Bowen has carved out a fine niche for himself on the mainstream jazz scene as an educator at Rutgers University, and as a recording artist (BTW, back when the Library where I work had money I actually booked him for a concert!) This is a fine mainstream jazz hard-bop recording where Bowen is performing wit ...Read More
John Barron review for Captain Black Big Band…
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Review: The Captain Black Big Band, led by pianist Orrin Evans, is a high-intensity, swinging affair featuring a number of top soloists from the jazz scenes of New York and Philadelphia. Recorded during three different live performances in 2010, the group features a rotating cast of thirty-eight musicians over seven tracks. Despite the lack of a cohesive unit, the disc maintai ...Read More
JazzWrap covers Captain Black Big Band…
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Orrin Evans: Captain Black Big Band
Orrin Evans (piano; b. 1975)
Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone Records)
As the next generation of jazz musicians get more experience, albums and live performances under their belt, its almost inevitable that they will record a big band record. In recent years we have seen it from Wynton Marsalis, Roy Hargrove, Dave Holland, Nicholas Payton, ...Read More
Peter Hum reviews Mike DiRubbo “Chronos”…
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Chronos (Posi-Tone)
Mike DiRubbo
Chronos, from alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo, is a quintessentially Posi-Tone jazz CD that delivers high-level post-bop pleasures. DiRubbo’s a direct and passionate player who’s steeped in the power and modal prowess of icons such as John Coltrane and Kenny Garrett, as you can see from this clip:
On his new CD, DiRubbo leads a tri ...Read More
Richard Kamins Step Tempest review of Captain Black Big Band….
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TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 2011
Powerful Sounds
Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone Records) – Positive comments have been swirling for several years about this large aggregation. Founded and led by pianist/composer Orrin Evans(and named for one of his pieces, which itself was named for his father’s favorite pipe tobacco), the CBBB features musicians of all ages ...Read More
Bruce Lindsay’s AAJ write-up for Orrin Evans “Captain Black Big Band”….
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The man behind the Captain Black Big Band is pianist Orrin Evans. The ensemble’s eponymous debut recording is a CD of such style, musicality and instrumental power that it seems only right to ensure that Evans gets the credit upfront. This is straight-ahead, swinging, big band music, recorded at three live performances in New York and Philadelphia in early 2010. The tune ...Read More
Dan Bilawsky’s AAJ review for Noah Haidu “Slipstream”…
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What do slipstreams and music have in common? The simple answer is: flow. While some genres have turned their back on the idea of letting each piece of music flow in its own unique way, subscribing instead to digital quantizing and beat perfection, jazz isn’t one of them. On his appropriately titled debut, Slipstreams, pianist Noah Haidu presents eight unique tracks tha ...Read More
Ni Kantu review for Mike DiRubbo “Chronos”…
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MIKE DI RUBBO
Chronos
Chronos is altoist Mike DiRubbo’s sixth date as a leader and the first to feature him within the bristling context of organ and drums. A student of Jackie McLean (among others) at the Hartt School of Music, DiRubbo has gone on to work with a number of luminaries of modern straight-ahead jazz, such as trumpeter Jim Rotondi, trombonist Steve Davis, ...Read More