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December 9, 2012 Hal Galper's Airgen Revisited is exhilarating. The pianist has been working at his artistry for more than a half century, and he is moving surely into the "elder statesman of jazz" category, riding the furious wave of several
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October 23, 2012 Chad McCullough, with one CD under his own namethe outstanding Dark Wood, Dark Water (Origin Records, 2009)has also contributed his distinctive voice to recordings by the Kora Band and Tunnel Six, all under the Origin Records
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August 9, 2012 Jessica Williams, with her last four CDs on Origin Records, is like a butterfly coming out of its cocoon. Earlier in her career, Williamswho once held the piano chair in drummer Philly Joe Jones bandwrapped her artistry in the Great
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Howard Reich Arts critic Guitarist Bobby Broom moved to Chicago from New York in 1984 and quickly established himself as one of the city's most promising instrumentalists, his resume eventually including an ongoing stint with no less than tenor
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May 18, 2012 The three players who now call themselves Human Spiritdrummer Matt Jorgensen , trumpeter Thomas Marriott and alto saxophonist Mark Taylor have a very successful track record of recording together. They teamed up on Jorgensen's
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May 10, 2012 There's no arguing that the best of the best in the piano trio field comes from the longterm units: on the younger end of the spectrum there's Brad Mehldau 's group with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jeff Ballard , who replaced his
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2012-04-26 Bobby Broom's new CD, Upper West Side Story , is the guitarist's tenth album in as many yearsthe culmination of a golden period of prolific creativity and steady artistic growth. Five of those recordings have featured his jazz trio with
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March 19, 2012 Whereas many of Chicago's jazz and blues guitar icons seem to channel the dark alleys and the bar sign neon of the city through their instruments, John Moulder 's sound is more akin to a synthesis of the lakefronta beauty and serenity
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March 7, 2012 Portland, Oregon's Upper Left Trio has been together nearly a decade. The group began its recording journey on Origin Records in 2003 with Cycling . Ulternative is the trio's fourth recording for the label, and continues to push its
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November 24, 2011 About eighty percent of the jazz piano players out there can fit into one of two schools: that of the introspective, harmonically rich Bill Evans mode; or the more percussive and gregarious Bud Powell bebop approach. There's also a
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