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CD Reviews: Carroll's CD Reviews
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Posted by: editoron Friday, August 29, 2008 - 09:18 AM |
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Aaron Irwin Group/Blood & Thunder/FSNT320
Echoes of ''Bird'.......Trane.......And other influential 'outside' jazz players who hold up our beloved idiom well......Enter Aaron Irwin with musical panache as he carries on our great mainstrean jazz tradition! Irwin is very much at home with his music, and bebop is 'where he lives.' I hope my missive engenders a deep respect for this musically knowledgeable & harmonically articulate jazz player, as he should be considered in my humble opinion a jazzer with immense objectivity and substance. This is a guy with a unique signature plus a definite singular personal dimension with what he sends out to us artistically.
George W Carroll
The Musicians' Ombudsman
Ralph Lalama Quartet/Energy Fields/MQP1116
I'm always amazed at the level of talent 'out there' today.
My hopes are that these giants fare well in such a convuluted
business as the music business. Lalama and his guys 'come to play' as it were. And, their style seems to establish a context for current tastes and trends. The group masters at presnting their musical perspective very well! A group like this gives the listener special insight into the human qualities of jazz artists......And, one will find much that is both musically interesting and harmonically enlightening in this fine group.
George W Carroll
The Musician's Ombudsman
Hank Jones-James Moody/Our Delight/IPO
Whenever jazz pianist Hank Jones or a luminary like sax great James Moody are on a disc, the review virtually writes itself. And, I'll confess my bias that these are two of my mainstream jazz heroes. However, contemporary jazz has enjoyed a wider access in recent years due to the massive & enduring talents of giants like these two. Both Hank and Moody have crossed all borderlines with their capability to exploit all musical idioms . The only world that these two have yet to conquer, (at their stage in life) is the universe, which seems to be theirs for the asking.
George W Carroll
The Musicians' Ombudsman
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