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SomethingElse! reviews the Captain Black Big Band CD…
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— March 23, 2011 10:31 am
One Track Mind: Orrin Evans, “Jena 6 ” (2011)
Posted by Nick DeRiso
by Nick DeRiso
Turns out, it actually does mean a thing, even if it ain’t got that swing.
For something like 80 years now, that old Duke Ellington cliche worked as the clarion call of big band music, but its mantra has also become its curse. Subsequent generations mo ...Read More
Lucid Culture reviews Orrin Evans – Captain Black Big Band….
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Orrin Evans’ Captain Black Big Band Is Everything You’d Expect
In some ways, what Pink Floyd, Nektar, Supertramp and all the rest of the orchestrated rock bands were to the “classic rock” era, new big band jazz is to the decade of the teens. It’s where you get your epic grandeur fix. Towering, intense angst; full-blown exhilaration. There’s a lot more of the ...Read More
Jeff Krow’s Audiophile Audition review for Orrin Evans – Captain Black Big Band…
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Orrin Evans/ Captain Black Big Band – Posi-Tone Records PR8078, 59:54 ****:
(Artists include: Orrin Evans – piano; Tatum Greenblatt, Brian Kilpatrick, Walter White, Jack Walrath – trumpets; Mark Allen, Ralph Bowen, Wayne Escoffery, Tia Fuller, Rob Landham, Victor North, Jaleel Shaw, Tim Warfield – saxophones; Stafford Hunter, Frank Lacy, Brent White – ...Read More
Here’s the Lucid Culture write-up for Mike DiRubbo ” Chronos”….
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Saxophonist Mike DiRubbo’s new album Chronos is a refreshingly different kind of B3 jazz album. Not that there’s anything wrong with funky organ shuffles, it’s just a lot of fun discovering something this different and rewarding. Here Brian Charette’s Hammond organ functions more like a ...Read More
Mike DiRubbo makes the hang on “The Scene”…
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You can now hear episode 2 of “The Scene”, Hardbop’s monthly podcast. The podcast will feature a different jazz artist on the scene, either emerging or established and play excerpts from their latest release. This month we feature Mike DiRubbo a humble saxophonist from the New York/Connecticut area who came up in the late ’90s after graduating from the Hart ...Read More
Bruce Lindsay’s AAJ review for Benjamin Drazen “Inner Flights”….
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Track Listing: Mr Twilight; Monkish; Prayer for Brothers Gone; Jazz Heaven; Inner Flights; Neeney’s Waltz; This Is New; Kickin’ Up Dirt; Polka Dots and Moonbeams.
Personnel: Benjamin Drazen: alto saxophone, soprano saxophone; Jon Davis: piano; Carlo De Rosa: bass; Eric McPherson: drums.
Style: Modern Jazz
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Another review for “Inner Flights”….
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Alto saxophonist Benjamin Drazen has been plying his trade around Manhattan’s network of small jazz bars — places like 55 Bar, Smalls, and The Garage — for over a decade. At long last, the New York native unveils his debut outing Inner Flights. In a program of mostly original music, Drazen consistently delivers strong post-Coltrane fire with a sound that lies somewhere bet ...Read More
Brandon Wright talks with Anthony Cekay on the Page4Music podcast…Check it out!
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Today marks the launch of Page4Music’s saxophone podcast. Tune in each Friday as Anthony Cekay interviews various saxophonists, equipment manufactures, teachers and more saxophone specialists about everything saxophone related.
In this episode, saxophonist Brandon Wright joins Anthony to discuss their favorite Blue Note albums that feature the tenor saxophone.
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Lucid Culture has this to say about Benjamin Drazen “Inner Flights”…
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Benjamin Drazen’s Inner Flights Delivers Understated Intensity
Intense but not overbearing, richly melodic, rhythmically surprising yet extremely accessible, saxophonist Benjamin Drazen’s new album Inner Flights is smartly titled. Beneath the surface calm, there’s an inner fire – he’s one of those guys like JD Allen who chooses his spots. Drazen likes a clea ...Read More