StepTempest covers Sarah Manning “Harmonious Creature”…
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The majority of the music alto saxophonist/composer Sarah Manning created for her 4th CD, “Harmonious Creature” (Posi-Tone Records), came from a month-long stay in 2012 at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. In fact, the first track of the recording, “Copland On Cornelia Street“, was inspired by the fact she stayed in a cabin that Aaro ...Read More
TimeOutNY mentions the upcoming gig for Sarah Manning…
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/music/sarah-manning
We hadn’t heard of saxist-composer Sarah Manning until recently, but now that we’ve checked out Harmonious Creature—a new Posi-Tone set featuring piquant themes, an ambient textural feel and the leader’s distinctive liquid tone—we feel like we have a lot of catching up to do. Here, Manning celebrates the disc with help from ...Read More
The Jazz Breakfast reviews Sarah Manning “Harmonious Creature”…
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Sarah Manning – Harmonious Creature
BY PETER BACON on 9 FEBRUARY 2014 • ( 0 )
(Posi-Tone PR8117)
This is the fourth CD from the US alto saxophonist and her second on this label. She has Eyvind Kang on viola, Jonathan Goldberger on guitar, Rene Hart on bass and Jerome Jennings on drums.
It’s both straight down the line, small combo chamber jazz, and also som ...Read More
Another insightful review of Sarah Manning “Harmonious Creature”…
www.birdistheworm.com
Working the line where jazz and folk meet, saxophonist Sarah Manning captures the vibrant energy of the former and the back porch languor of the latter. Her 2013 release Harmonious Creature touches upon similar motifs as that of Bill Frisell and his Americana Jazz stylings, but where Frisell pretty much ventures out of jazz territory and into the folk countryside, Manni ...Read More
Music and More reviews Tom Tallitsch new CD “Ride”…
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Tom Tallitsch is a tenor saxophone player working on the modern mainstream scene, recording as a leader and a sideman regularly. He is accompanied by Art Hirahara on piano, Mike Dease on trombone, Peter Brendler on bazz and Rudy Royston on drums. “Ride” opens the album with a strong beginning that builds to a boiling tempo and fine saxophone solo and an ...Read More
Lucid Culture covers Sarah Manning’s concert at the I-Beam Brooklyn…
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Sarah Manning’s Quintet Airs Out a Great Album’s Worth of Tunes at I-Beam
When she was invited up to the McDowell Colony last year to compose, alto saxophonist Sarah Manning was not in a good place, she alluded between songs at her show Saturday night at I-Beam. But her time in the New Hampshire woods turned out to be exactly what she needed to reboot, and ...Read More
Critical Jazz reviews Tom Tallitsch “Ride”…
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Tom Tallitsch shows exponential growth both as a performer and a composer and is certainly a name to remember!
Brent Black / www.criticaljazz.com
Ride is the sophomore release from Tom Tallitsch on Posi-Tone Records. The stellar cover art is an excellent representation of a release that is evocative, energized and delightfully eclectic. This quintet is firing on all c ...Read More
Midwest Record reviews Steve Fidyk “Heads Up!”…
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STEVE FIDYK/Heads Up: As much as we really love a real original that knows
how to work an original, we have a soft spot for leaders that can take a chestnut
and put a whole new spin on it, much like Fidyk, Stafford, Warfield and company do
here on “I Can See Clearly Now” as well as several others. Original, creative and
somewhat vis ...Read More
Music and More reviews Sarah Manning’s new CD “Harmonious Creature”…
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Sarah Manning is an alto saxophonist and composer, whose new album, Harmonious Creature features her in the company of Eyvind Kang on viola, Jonathan Goldberger on guitar, Rene Hart on bass and Jerome Jennings on drums. The album was recorded in Brooklyn about one year ago and consists of several original compositions, and some interesting covers, particularly “O ...Read More
Sarah Manning Takes a Sensationally Successful Shot at Chamber Jazz
http://lucidculture.wordpress.com
Sarah Manning is to the alto sax what JD Allen is to the tenor: even in a world of rugged individualists, she stands out. Lots of artists doll themselves up, tone themselves down and smile sweetly for the camera for an album cover shot. Manning scowls at you from the inside of the cd booklet for her new Posi-tone album, Harmonious Creature. Her bright, defenest ...Read More