Bruce Lindsay gives a review of Steve Horowitz “New Monsters”…
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Old monsters? They were frightening, gargantuan, mythical beasts: fire-breathing, blood-lusting and not at all willing to put together anything close to a danceable riff.New Monsters, at least as envisioned by bassist Steve Horowitz on this Posi-Tone album, are a much more engaging bunch. There’s still some fire-breathing in evidence, but the blood lust is kept at bay in ...Read More
Sax Shed reviews Doug Webb “Swing Shift”…
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Tenor Saxophonist Doug Webb recently released Swing Shift on Posi-Tone Records. The recording features Webb on tenor, Stanley Clarke on bass, Gerry Gibbs on drums and three different pianists, Larry Goldings, Joe Bagg and Mahesh Balasoorlya.
According to the liner notes, “Swing Shift represents the third record from one fruitful day of recording, in which I gathered the great S ...Read More
Another great review for Ehud Asherie “Upper West Side”…
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The upper west side may well be the epi-center for jazz in the western world. Posi-Tone along with pianist Ehud Asherie and tenor saxophone legend Harry Allen have captured a delicious swing for the jazz purist. There is a vibrant, tight and incredibly sophisticated elegance that permeates this stellar recording.
From the opening tune “Learnin’ The Blues” th ...Read More
SomethingElse! reviews Jared Gold “Golden Child”…
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Coming off the magnificent All Wrapped Up, Jared Gold is back just under a year later with Golden Child. A program that alternates standards with his originals, Golden Child is another parade of Gold’s advanced B3 articulations. Whereas on Wrapped he delved more into knotty arrangements and modalisms atypical of organ jazz, he returns to the organ/guitar/drums att ...Read More
JazzWrap reviews Doug Webb “Swing Shift”…
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The most important things about any group that has been/recorded together for long period of time is consistency and chemistry. In the case of Doug Webb, this consistency and chemistry came of the course of one long day which has given birth to three recordings including his latest, Swing Shift. These recordings represent a number of snapshots over those hours with various ...Read More
Raul DaGama Rose reviews Steve Horowitz “New Monsters”…
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Despite the suggestion of the title, New Monsters is not actually crawling with legions of denizens from the netherworld. The promise of monsters has more to do with the unleashing of musical forces as diverse as klezmer and Erik Satie. Moreover, far from being a quaint experiment, the album takes a radical road—one that was travelled by Don Byron on Plays the Music of ...Read More
The Jazz Word on Jared Gold “Golden Child”…
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A greased-up organ trio version of Sam Cooke’s civil rights cry “A Change is Gonna Come” may seem a little far-fetched. In the hands of Jared Gold, however, the tune’s melodic character shapes a thoughtful arrangement, full of soulful character. The same can be said of the organist’s take on Johnny Nash’s pop staple “I Can See Clea ...Read More
Glenn Astarita reviews Steve Horowitz “New Monsters”…
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San Francisco Bay Area bassist Steve Horowitz of The Code International amid copious projects with largely cutting-edge instrumentalists leads a manifold progressive-jazz effort, augmented by the artists’ ‘monstrous’ chops. With a superfine lineup, featuring reedman Steve Adams of ROVA notoriety and tenor sax ace Dan Plonsey who gets credit for writing all the original pieces o ...Read More
Raul Da’Gama Rose reviews Ehud Asherie “Upper West Side”…
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Upper West Side is as fine a duet album as has been made by a pianist with another instrumentalist. This declaration may very possibly include the albums made by Hank Jones with Tommy Flanagan and Oscar Peterson with Dizzy Gillespie. It is a credit to pianist Ehud Asherie that he made this album at such a young age in comparison to the masters who have been mentioned ...Read More
Lucid Culture reviews Doug Webb “Swing Shift”…
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Doug Webb Slays With His Own Stuff
If you see a lot of jazz, you’re probably used to watching familiar faces run through familiar material and wondering to yourself, what if they were left to their own devices? What if they did their own stuff – would they take it to the next level? Doug Webb’s latest album Swing Shift is one answer to that question.
Back in Apr ...Read More