Search results for "Greg Osby"
Greg Osby: The Single Petal of a Rose (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music March 17, 09For St. Louis Shoes, Greg Osby imaginatively scaled down for a quintet the orchestral arrangement of "East St. Louis ...
Greg Osby: All Neon Like (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music September 21, 09It’s easy to see why a jazz musician might want to tackle Bjork’s “All Neon Like”. Consisting of little more than a s...
Greg Osby: East St. Louis Toodle-Oo (Rating: 97/100) posted in Music March 11, 09Duke Ellington gave two differing explanations for the derivation of the title "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo," his theme ...
Greg Osby: Pent-Up House (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 26, 08Blue Note packaged this CD to resemble a bootleg, what with the crude "graphics" and the pseudo-provocative behind-th...
Greg Osby: Indiana (Rating: 87/100) posted in Music February 12, 08Here, the melody of "Indiana" is more a pretext for exploration and improvisation than the real center of intere...
Marc Copland & Greg Osby: Easy Living (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music March 21, 08This version of "Easy Living" is very quiet and relaxed in its beginning, and Copland's piano maintains a slow, under...
Jimmy Herring: Splash (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music October 20, 08"Splash" is not necessarily one of the best cuts on the stellar Lifeboat. That says more about the quality of the alb...
Andrew Hill: Golden Sunset (alternate take) (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music November 10, 08This is from one of a couple of records that Andrew did for Blue Note in the late ‘80s. The album itself has a certai...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: VIJAY IYER SURVEYS THE MUSIC OF ANDREW HILL
In 1995, Vijay Iyer, then a 24-year-old Berkeley PhD candidate in Physics with an interest in the neurobiology of ...
Jimmy Herring: Gray Day (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music October 20, 08Wow. This brooding melodramatic piece belongs in a soundtrack of really great movie. It oozes mystery. What is happen...
Stefon Harris: One String Blues (Rating: 88/100) posted in Music June 11, 09On his debut album, Stefon Harris emerged as one of the most interesting voices in jazz music. He approaches composit...
Stefon Harris: Sacred Forest (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music June 11, 09This tune is one of several short but nice percussion heavy songs as "Sacred Forest" features Harris rocking the mari...
In Conversation with Greg Osby posted in Features and Interviews November 16, 08By Ted Panken “When you look the music's lineage, the people that stand out have something that's their ow...
Osby, Greg (Gregory Thomas) posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 09Alto saxophonist Greg Osby's career is one of reverse osmosis. As a member of the M-Base collective in the eighties a...
Moran, Jason posted in Encyclopedia May 19, 09Pianist Jason Moran has demonstrated an ability to strike a delicate balance between musical tradition and innovati...
Coleman, Steve posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Coleman, Steve, alto saxophonist, composer, band leader. Steve began playing music just days before his 14th birthda...
Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog March 19, 09We continue in our noble if quixotic quest to review all of the great and almost great tracks in the history of jazz....
Rosewoman, Michele (Donna Michele) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Rosewoman, Michele (Donna Michele), pianist, composer; b. Oakland, CA, 19 March 1953. Her father Louis Roseman was a ...
Twenty Jazz Lives posted in The Jazz.com Blog September 03, 09Unless you dig into the deep recesses of this web site, you might miss the Encyclopedia of Jazz Musicians. This pr...
Hill, Andrew posted in Encyclopedia June 18, 08Pianist Andrew Hill’s challenging compositional style puzzled many jazz fans during his lifetime. Despite this, many...
Simon, Edward posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Simon, Edward, pianist; b. Punta CardUn, Venezuela, 27 July 1969. His mother is Daisy Morillo Garcia, born 7/30/1942,...
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