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Jared Gold is served up hot and fresh at the jazzbreakfast blog…..
thejazzbreakfast.wordpress.comJared Gold: Out Of Line (Posi-Tone PR8067)
From the LA-based record label comes a warm and greasy Brooklyn session from organist Gold with Chris Cheek on tenor, Dave Stryker on guitar and Mark Ferber on drums.
They open with Hank Mobley’s An Aperitif, which includes strong solos from Gold and Cheek. Then it’s time for some Preachin’, a relaxed modern take on tha ...Read More
Something Else! provides expert analysis of organist Jared Gold’s career on the rise and his latest CD “Out of Line”….
Maybe it’s just me, but I think we’re in the midst of a full-fledged revival in jazz organ, led by a newer generation of players who have gone beyond mimicking the tried and true voicings of Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff and Richard “Groove” Holmes. In that group of innovative new B-3 specialists I’d include Larry Goldings, Sam Yahel, John Medeski, Neal Evans and Gary Vers ...Read More
AAJ contributor Bruce Lindsay has this to say about Jared Gold “Out of Line”…
Track Listing: An Aperitif; Preachin’; Out of Line; You Haven’t Done Nothin’; It is Well; Down South; The Stone Age; La-La (Means I Love You); Skylark.
Personnel: Jared Gold: organ; Chris Cheek: saxophone; Dave Stryker: guitar; Mark Ferber: drums.
If a single word is needed to describe Out Of Line, organist Jared Gold’s third album as leader, then that word is cool. If two ...Read More
The Lucid Culture blog provides insight into Jared Gold’s new CD “Out of Line”….
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Remember that scene in American Splendor where Harvey opens the review copy of the album he’s just received in the mail, looks at it and then says, glumly, “Oh. Another organ-and-tenor record?” These days, organ-and-tenor records don’t grow on trees anymore, and this one’s hardly ordinary. The title of organist Jared Gold’s third and latest album Out of Line ...Read More
Audiophile Audition’s review for Jared Gold “Out of Line”……
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Jared Gold – Out Of Line – Posi-Tone Records PR8067, 50:54 ****½:
(Jared Gold – organ; Chris Cheek – saxophone; Dave Stryker – guitar; Mark Ferber – drums)
Jared Gold is a big part of the jazz organ resurrection. Influences such as Jack McDuff, Larry Young and Don Patterson, have shaped a distinctive approach to his music. In the place of pedestrian blues and R & B ...Read More
Richard Kamins provides this insightful analysis of the new Tarbaby CD on his Step Tempest Blog….
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Tarbaby is the collective trio of Orrin Evans (piano), Eric RevisNasheet Waits (bass) and (drums) and “The End of Fear” (Posi-Tone Records) is the their 2nd CD. They’ve invited 3 fine guests to join them, including J D Allen (tenor sax), Oliver Lake (alto sax) and Nicholas Payton (trumpet). This is music that takes plenty of chances, throws the listener ...Read More
Another thoughtful review of Tarbaby “The End of Fear”…..
lucidculture
Intense, enigmatic, often very funny, Tarbaby’s debut album The End of Fear is a jazz power trio of sorts featuring Orrin Evans on piano, Eric Revis on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums along with some welcome guests: JD Allen on tenor, Oliver Lake on alto and Nicholas Payton on trumpet. Darkly melodic, fearlessly spontaneous (hence the title) and bristling with combustible energy, ti ...Read More
NYTimes writer Ben Ratliff provides this review of the new Tarbaby CD….
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Tarbaby — provocative name, right? — is a trio with the pianist Orrin Evans, the bassist Eric Revis and the drummer Nasheet Waits. As with Ms. Laubrock’s band, the group identity is a little porous; its new album, “The End of Fear” (Posi-Tone), mixes in guest appearances integral to the music, from the saxophonists Oliver Lake and J. D. Allen and the trumpeter Nicholas Pa ...Read More
Bruce Lindsay of AAJ weighs in on Tarbaby “The End of Fear”…….
www.allaboutjazz.com
A band name that some might see as confrontational—although the band denies this—an album title that could be wildly optimistic, a statement of faith or simply ironic; some of the fieriest jazz players on the scene and a scary Hieronymus Bosch-style cover design. What kind of music might emanate from such a combination? Free form, loud, frenetic, aggressive? Yes, but this ...Read More
Lucid Culture’s write up for the new Ehud Asherie CD “Organic” featuring Peter Bernstein….
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Ehud Asherie is an interesting guy, a longtime star of the New York jazz underground with a unique and soulful voice on the organ. A lot of jazz players go straight for the funky grooves pioneered by Jimmy Smith and Jimmy McGriff and there’s definitely that feel here but there’s also a welcome fearlessness of the kind of power a B3 organ can deliver. Which is especially interestin ...Read More