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The Bert van den Brink Trio with Rick Margitza: Conversations

Read "Conversations" reviewed by Robert Spencer


Conversations is a soulful disc of jazz and jazz/funk. Often the latter comes in unexpectedly: John Coltrane's “Naima" is invested by drummer Hans van Oosterhout with a heavy funk beat, although tenor saxophonist Rick Margitza plays rather conventionally over it. But of course this is no indication that this quartet isn't capable of shifting down to play a ballad: there's Jacques Brel's “La Chanson des Vieux Amants" immediately following “Naima," and played with a keen sincerity and no funk at ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Friendship - Live At...

Inner City Records
2009

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Bert's Bytes

Inner City Records
2007

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Conversations

Challenge Records
1999

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