Owen Cordle

Steve Slagle: Alto Manhattan (Panorama)

Owen Cordle

Alto Manhattan, named for the New York City borough where alto saxophonist and flutist Steve Slagle resides, is a mixed bag of Latin music, ballads … Read More

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Dave Stryker: Eight Track II (Strikezone)

Owen Cordle

As an alumnus of stints with organist Jack McDuff and tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, guitarist Dave Stryker knows how to please hardcore jazz heads as … Read More

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Joey DeFrancesco: Trip Mode

Owen Cordle

Joey the Aggressor has emerged with this album. With new guitarist Dan Wilson and new drummer Jason Brown, the organist’s trio harkens back to-as liner-note … Read More

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Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio: Live in Studio

Owen Cordle

This album was recorded with a studio audience present and without rehearsals and formal arrangements, and it is a testimony to the power of spontaneity … Read More

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Houston Person: Something Personal

Owen Cordle

Something Personal is a typical offering from veteran tenor saxophonist Houston Person: warm ballads, an R&B cooker, a couple of standards with a bossa-nova beat … Read More

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Steve Slagle & Bill O’Connell: The Power of Two

Owen Cordle

You’ve heard the expression about there being “strength in numbers.” In the case of Steve Slagle and Bill O’Connell’s The Power of Two, two is … Read More

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Grant Stewart: Trio

Owen Cordle

Working with Paul Sikivie on bass and brother Phil Stewart on drums throughout TRIO, tenor saxophonist Grant Stewart exhibits a big, direct tone and, in … Read More

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Dave Stryker: Messin’ With Mr. T

Owen Cordle

The bluesy, soulful guitarist Dave Stryker played in tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine’s band from 1986 through 1995. On Messin’ With Mr. T, he invites 10 … Read More

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Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer

Owen Cordle

Bob Brookmeyer was a charter member of the Jazz Band, otherwise known as the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra and eventually the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. From … Read More

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Afro Bop Alliance: Angel Eyes

Owen Cordle

The most unusual feature of the septet Afro Bop Alliance is the presence of steel pans in the frontline alongside trumpet and alto and tenor … Read More

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Mack Avenue Superband: Live From the Detroit Jazz Festival–2013

Owen Cordle

Supergroups don’t always live up to the billing, but this one does. A sequel to the SuperBand’s 2012 Detroit Jazz Festival recording, this album features … Read More

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Tom Harrell: Trip

Owen Cordle

Not to discount the work of Tom Harrell’s frontline partners from his previous albums, but the tonal match and improvisational rapport between the trumpeter-flugelhornist and … Read More

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Frank Kimbrough: Quartet

Owen Cordle

Frank Kimbrough’s piano playing is unpredictable. Not in terms of quality-he’s always “on”-but in terms of content, direction and execution. He’s a genuinely spontaneous player. … Read More

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Saxophone Summit: Visitation

Owen Cordle

Here’s what this album suggests at various times: the soundtrack to a dark, slow-moving suspense film; an orchestra tuning up; six musicians practicing simultaneously in … Read More

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Saxophone Summit: Visitation

Owen Cordle

Here’s what this album suggests at various times: the soundtrack to a dark, slow-moving suspense film; an orchestra tuning up; six musicians practicing simultaneously in … Read More

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Mike LeDonne: I Love Music

Owen Cordle

Mike LeDonne’s Groover Quartet has a talent for finding the jazz groove in pop tunes as well as for striking up a righteous groove on … Read More

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Stan Kenton Alumni Band: Road Scholars Live

Owen Cordle

With trumpeter Mike Vax at the helm, the Stan Kenton Alumni Band is in good hands. The group’s 2013 tour, memorialized here, would not disappoint … Read More

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Ralph Bowen: Standard Deviation

Owen Cordle

With Standard Deviation, tenor saxophonist Ralph Bowen, pianist Bill O’Connell, bassist Kenny Davis and drummer Donald Edwards deliver a program of standard tunes revised in … Read More

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Mike Longo and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble: Live From New York!

Owen Cordle

This album captures an electrifying evening at the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium in the NYC Baha’i Center. There is a feeling of elation in the … Read More

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Ray Mantilla: The Connection

Owen Cordle

Jazz and Afro-Caribbean rhythms are a natural connection, one attractively celebrated in the work of Latin percussionist Ray Mantilla, who was born in the South … Read More

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Art Hodes: I Remember Bessie

Owen Cordle

“She just reaches out and grabs and holds me. … This gal sings from the heart. She never lets me get away from her once.” … Read More

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Stan Getz Quartet: Live at Montreux 1972

Owen Cordle

Recorded in 1972 at the Montreux Jazz Festival, this sold-separately CD and DVD release captures Getz in aggressive form as he digs into newer repertoire … Read More

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Houston Person: Nice ‘N’ Easy

Owen Cordle

Houston Person has called his style “good old bootin’ tenor sax playing.” With parts of this album, he might also refer to boudoir footwear, especially … Read More

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Joey DeFrancesco: One for Rudy

Owen Cordle

“Rudy” is, of course, legendary recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder, for whom Joey DeFrancesco feels a certain affinity. The organist recorded his second album at … Read More

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Eli Yamin/Evan Christopher: Louie’s Dream: For Our Jazz Heroes

Owen Cordle

The heroes pianist Eli Yamin and clarinetist Evan Christopher honor on this album include not only Louis Armstrong but also Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Sidney … Read More

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Scott Hamilton: Remembering Billie

Owen Cordle

Here we have a typically swinging set by tenorman Scott Hamilton, the majority of which features songs recorded by singer Billie Holiday before World War … Read More

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Frank Wess: Magic 101

Owen Cordle

Former Count Basie Band saxophonist Frank Wess, 89 at the time of this 2011 recording, is in classic form throughout. Accompanied by pianist Kenny Barron, … Read More

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The Bechet Legacy: Birch Hall Concerts Live

Owen Cordle

Soprano saxophonist and clarinetist Bob Wilber formed the Bechet Legacy in the late ’70s. He had studied with Sidney Bechet as a teenager in the … Read More

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Eric Alexander: Touching

Owen Cordle

Eric Alexander, on the scene since the early 1990s, is from the masculine school of tenor saxophone rhapsody. Throughout Touching, an album of ballads, he … Read More

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Bill Evans: Momentum

Owen Cordle

This two-CD set is a considerable emotional distance from the definitive and introspective Bill Evans Trio heard on the revered Sunday at the Village Vanguard … Read More

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Steve Slagle: Alto Manhattan (Panorama)

Dave Stryker: Eight Track II (Strikezone)

Joey DeFrancesco: Trip Mode

Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio: Live in Studio

Houston Person: Something Personal

Steve Slagle & Bill O’Connell: The Power of Two

Grant Stewart: Trio

Dave Stryker: Messin’ With Mr. T

Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: OverTime: Music of Bob Brookmeyer

Afro Bop Alliance: Angel Eyes

Mack Avenue Superband: Live From the Detroit Jazz Festival–2013

Tom Harrell: Trip

Frank Kimbrough: Quartet

Saxophone Summit: Visitation

Saxophone Summit: Visitation

Mike LeDonne: I Love Music

Stan Kenton Alumni Band: Road Scholars Live

Ralph Bowen: Standard Deviation

Mike Longo and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble: Live From New York!

Ray Mantilla: The Connection

Art Hodes: I Remember Bessie

Stan Getz Quartet: Live at Montreux 1972

Houston Person: Nice ‘N’ Easy

Joey DeFrancesco: One for Rudy

Eli Yamin/Evan Christopher: Louie’s Dream: For Our Jazz Heroes

Scott Hamilton: Remembering Billie

Frank Wess: Magic 101

The Bechet Legacy: Birch Hall Concerts Live

Eric Alexander: Touching

Bill Evans: Momentum

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