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All About Jazz likes what it hears on “Bright Side” by Doug Webb
From one perspective, Doug Webb‘s Bright Side is basically twelve tracks clothed in very recognizable forms —a few varieties of soul-jazz, a couple of heartfelt ballads, a taut bossa nova, and an array of middling and up tempo straight- ahead swingers. Although the material is thoroughly enjoyable, it’s tempting to succumb to a nagging notion that its all been done countless times be ...Read More
Dusted Magazine shows us the “Bright Side” by Doug Webb
The title of Doug Webb’s seventh Positone release sums up not only a personal outlook on his vocation, but the reality of it as well, given a career involving 30+ years as a professional musician. Bright Side teams the tenorist with some of the brightest of his immediate peers on the imprint with trumpeter Joe Magnarelli, organist Brian Charette and guitarist Ed Cherry each successful leaders in ...Read More
All About Jazz talks with Walt Weiskopf about his career, past and present
What is it that drives Walt Weiskopf? It’s all about the music, all about the sound.
He’s reached a large audience in ten years of touring with Steely Dan. He’s written a half dozen books on jazz improvisation techniques and methods, and he’s taught at the Eastman School of Music, Temple University and New Jersey City University, where he now heads the jazz program. We find ...Read More
Posi-Tone 20th Anniversary celebration at Smalls!
7:30 – 10;00 10:30 – 1:00
Tom Tallitsch Band Brian Charette Band
w/Jon Davis w/Doug Webb
Peter Brendler Walt Weisko ...Read More
All About Jazz covers Ben Wolfe “The Whisperer”…
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You can always gauge a bassist-led recording by the players he attracts on the bandstand or in the studio. Proof of this premise isBen Wolfe‘s latest, The Whisperer. Just like Charles Mingus had his Jaki Byard, Booker Ervin, and Dannie Richmond, andDave Holland his Craig Taborn, Kevin Eubanks, and Eric Harland, Wolfe is also a magnet for ...Read More
Audiophile Audition coverage for Michael Dease “Relentless”…
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Michael Dease – Relentless – Posi-Tone PR8127, 64:12 [7/8/14] ****½:
I’d have to say that Posi-Tone is two for two on current releases by Joe Magnarelli and Michael Dease. Both are great acquisitions to the Posi-Tone roster, and I’m hoping that they stay put for awhile. I can’t give enough ...Read More