Michael Dease: Bonafide (Posi-Tone)
Trombonist/composer Michael Dease is a porkpie-hat kind of guy. On his new album, Bonafide, he strives to make fragrant both the swing and bop roots … Read More “Michael Dease: Bonafide (Posi-Tone)”
Trombonist/composer Michael Dease is a porkpie-hat kind of guy. On his new album, Bonafide, he strives to make fragrant both the swing and bop roots … Read More “Michael Dease: Bonafide (Posi-Tone)”
This Oklahoma State University big-band project is an intense collaboration with trombonist Michael Dease, whose straight-ahead sound and bubbling font of musical ideas can bring … Read More “OSU Jazz Orchestra: Solid Gold (OSU Jazz Studies)”
Following 2014’s Relentless, his first foray into big-band territory, trombonist Michael Dease is back on familiar ground, leading a small-group session with saxophonist Tim Green, … Read More “Michael Dease: Decisions”
Like doo-wop, trad-jazz or rockabilly, big-band jazz is so closely associated with a bygone era that any musician testing its waters must find a way … Read More “Michael Dease: Relentless”
Good new trombone players do not come along as often as, say, good tenor saxophone or trumpet players. Enter Michael Dease. On the very first … Read More “Michael Dease : Coming Home”
The buttery, assured trombonist Michael Dease is at home with everything from classic jazz to frantic bop to Brazilian samba. His fourth album as a … Read More “MIchael Dease: Grace”