The Urban Flux reviews Noah Haidu “Slipstream”….
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Based in New York, pianist-composer Noah Haidu originally from Charlottesville, VA debuts with his engaging bop induced yet lyrically intense album titled “SLIPSTREAM” on Posi-Tone Records. All compositions on this recording were written by Haidu with the exception of “Just One of Those Things” composed by Cole Porter.
Out of the box “SLIPSTREAM,” sonicall ...Read More
Audiophile Audition Review for Jared Gold “All Wrapped Up”…
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Jared Gold – All Wrapped Up – Posi-Tone
Some golden moments….
Published on April 10, 2011
Jared Gold – All Wrapped Up – Posi-Tone PR 8080, 50:03 ****½:
(Jared Gold, organ; Ralph Bowen, tenor sax; Jim Rotondi, trumpet and flugelhorn; Quincy Davis, drums)
Jared Gold covers all the bases on his latest Posi-Tone release,All Wrapped Up. From wh ...Read More
SaxShed review for Jared Gold “All Wrapped Up”….
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Jared Gold – All Wrapped Up
Jazz organist Jared Gold is soon to release his cd All Wrapped Up on April 12, 2011. The energetic quartet features Gold on organ, tenor saxophonist extraordinaire Ralph Bowen, trumpeter Jim Rotondi and Quincy Davis on drums.From the opening bars of the hard swinging, up-tempo My Sentiments Exactly to the final funky Just a Suggestion, this gr ...Read More
Ken Blanchard reviews the Captain Black Big Band CD….
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Captain Black Big Band
I am just beginning to listen to the Posi-Tone recordings that the label was kind enough to send me. As I type I have ‘Here’s the Captain’ playin’ and man oh man am I ever groovin to it. It’s the second cut from Captain Black Big Band. The band is directed by pianist Orrin Evans. Evans solos, as does Victor N ...Read More
Here’s the first review for Jared Gold “All Wrapped Up”….
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As I type this review, I’m listening to not necessarily All Wrapped Up, the new record by organist Jared Gold, but also Unity by Larry Young. I know, it doesn’t make sense, since it’s Gold’s record being reviewed here, not Young’s. But something struck me about All Wrapped Up when I listened to it the last time: Gold’s artistic development is going along the ...Read More
The Revivalist reviews the Captain Black Big Band CD….
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(Posi-Tone Records)
March 29, 2011
8.5
Pianist Orrin Evans is doing something special in the Philadelphia area with the release of Captain Black’s Big Band, a 7-track release from an eighteen-member group of the same name. Led by Evans, the album is a humble suggestion that a once forceful sound reclaim its rightful place on the world stage, respectful of all tradition ...Read More
One Track Mind: Orrin Evans on “Captain Black,” “Commitment,” “Jena 6,” others…
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On this special edition of Something Else! Reviews’ One Track Mind, we hand the reins over to Orrin Evans, a former sideman with Bobby Watson who quickly established himself as one of jazz music’s most fascinating new voices over the course of a solo career begun in 1994. Here, the pianist shares unique insights into some of his more memorable tracks.
Find out just ...Read More
Mark F. Turner reviews Orrin Evans “Captain Black Big Band”…
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Pianist Orrin Evans has been on a roll, with the release of a couple of diamond Posi-Tone releases in 2010: Faith in Action — dedicated to friend and mentor, saxophonist Bobby Watson—and the old school yet highly progressive thinking of The End of Fear , with Tarbaby trio-mates, drummer Nasheet Waits and bassist Eric Revis. But the truth of the matter is that Evans ha ...Read More
Something Else! Interview: Orrin Evans
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Something Else! Interview: Orrin Evans, jazz pianist, composer and bandleader
Posted by Nick DeRiso
Orrin Evans arrived amidst a wave of new jazz performers in the early 1990s. Unlike many of those young lions, however, he managed to bob up from that era’s ultimately empty retro-conservatism. “A lot of those guys, quite frankly,” Orrin says, “just gave too much ...Read More
Tim Niland reviews Ralph Bowen “Power Play”….
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Ralph Bowen – Power Play (Posi-Tone, 2011)
Saxophonist Ralph Bowen has carved out a fine niche for himself on the mainstream jazz scene as an educator at Rutgers University, and as a recording artist (BTW, back when the Library where I work had money I actually booked him for a concert!) This is a fine mainstream jazz hard-bop recording where Bowen is performing wit ...Read More