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Jazz Trail reviews “Force Field” the sophomore album by Sam Dillon

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Even boasting a very personal diction when discoursing, the young American saxophonist Sam Dillon brings an impressive amount of different influences to his ripe sophomore album, Force Field. Strongly inflected with the hard bop idioms from the 50’s and early 60’s, Dillon, who possesses an outstanding technique, offers a classic-derived repertoire bolstered by creative spins that show how swin ...Read More

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October 15th, 2019 at 8:19 am

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October 2nd, 2018 at 11:08 am

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“Interstellar Adventures” is focused keenly on tradition and searching beyond it

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Interstellar Adventures makes good on the promise displayed on 2017’s Promethean, the young pianist’s debut for Posi-Tone, and 2015’s Live at Smalls, his first as a leader. It also far surpasses them in originality and pluck. Where the earlier outings, particularly Promethean, showed Hill to be an imaginative player with one eye focused keenly on tradition and the other eagerly searching bey ...Read More

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August 12th, 2018 at 3:26 pm

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Turn it up and feel the power of “Interstellar Adventures”

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Pianist and composer Theo Hill, a native of Albany, New York, first studied jazz piano with the late (and, in her neck of the woods, legendary Lee Shaw (1926-2015). After graduating from the Jazz Conservatory at SUNY/Purchase, Hill moved to New York City.  Slowly yet steadily, he has built quite the resume working with drummer Jeff “Tain” Watts, trumpeter Wallace Roney, vocalist Grego ...Read More

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June 11th, 2018 at 9:52 am

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June 4th, 2018 at 4:42 pm

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June 4th, 2018 at 4:40 pm

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June 4th, 2018 at 4:16 pm

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Behn Gillece Roxy Coss Josh Lawrence  Theo Hill  Peter Brendler  Vinnie Sperrazza ...Read More

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March 14th, 2018 at 2:00 pm