Gear Check – March 2016
A look at the latest gear for jazz educators and players – March 2016.
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A look at the latest gear for jazz educators and players – March 2016.
Read More…by Pete McGuinness The three-horn front line in jazz small groups has had many historical triumphs. Famous groups such as the many Art Blakey Jazz Messengers, Benny Golson and The Jazztet, and the Horace Silver “Cape Verdean Blues” LP ensemble come to mind. The various composer-arrangers of these and other important sextets found ways of […]
Read More…Dave Douglas Quintet Brazen Heart (Greenleaf) Dave Douglas – trumpet Jon Irabagon – tenor saxophone Matt Mitchell – piano Linda Oh – acoustic bass Rudy Royston – drums The protean trumpeter Dave Douglas strikes again – yet another album of creative, immediate, and rousing post bop with a crack band of exemplary young–ish players. Douglas’ […]
Read More…A look at what San Diego-based pianist and composer Danny Green is listening to this month.
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