Rufus Reid Evolving Bass
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Ph. D
 Farmer Well Deserves The Diploma -- This album has really grown on me. At first, I thought it inferior to "Blame It On My Youth", but having let it settle in I find that it is just as pleasing. As expected of this era of Farmer, the trumpeter ... [... more]
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Reid R-Rufus Reid-Live in Vienna
This concert was filmed in early 2005 at Vienna's famous jazz club Porgy & Bess, and features Rufus Reid on bass accompanied by Fritz Pauer on piano and John Hollenbeck on drums. Interwoven with the footage is insightful artist interviews. Reid's ... [... more]
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Playing For Change
What A Change - Jack Just Plays... -- No singing on this album. The entire album is filled with what Jack does best: wail on his trumpet. Excellent combo performances, from soulful ballads to jazzy uptempo tunes. Jack is at the top of his game on this ... [... more]
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Bambu Sun
Danceable Music With An Organic Sound Of Cross-Cultural Fusion -- Playing Time - 63:05 -- Born in Peru but currently living in New York, jazz vocalist and percussionist Corina Bartra shows the varied influence of her upbringing and life encounters. By ... [... more]
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We Used To Dance
Joel Frahm Meets Very High Expectations -- When I saw that tenor sax player Joel Frahm had recorded with the legendary rhythm section consisting of Kenny Barron on piano, Rufus Reid on bass and Victor Lewis on drums, which section got famous as the team ... [... more]
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Urban Grooves
Hitting On All Cylinders -- It's great to see a jazz veteran like Joe Chambers come up with such a fine disc. I don't know what it is--serendipity, the planets aligned, whatever--but 2003 continues to be a banner year for jazz recordings. Sometimes these ... [... more]
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Lucky So and So
"Burrell Puts You In That Sentimental Mood Call Jazz" -- I've been a fan of Kenny Burrell since the mid to late '60s ~ realized he's been around and recording since the mid '50s with various labels ~ remember his style and influence was from ... [... more]
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The Awabakal Suite
The Awabakal Suite -- The Parrott sisters have pooled their individual talents to release a CD that presents a 360 degree look-see at two of New York City's most exciting jazz musicians. Under the watchful eye of producer Rufus Reid, Nicki and Lisa take ... [... more]
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Suite Talk
Excellent Modern Jazz -- Bennett's not a name previously known to me, though she's had several albums out before now. She's got a great band on this one--Rick Margitza, Bill Mobley, Rufus Reid & Billy Hart--& she plays good, distinctive, though ... [... more]
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Doublebass Delights
Good, But Get Intimacy Of The Bass First -- I fear that most copies of this disc are going into the hands of bass players. That's a pity. Because while this is a great show of bass playing, it's also just ... good music. Apparently the two Reid/Moore ... [... more]
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Classic
Beautiful And Exciting -- Chris Connor had the great fortune of retaining her gorgeous voice deep into her career: she sings as forcefully and with as much control on this 1986 album as she did on her 1954 Bethlehem sides. Indeed, her smoky alto voice ... [... more]
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