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Dave Leslie: The Brim

Read "The Brim" reviewed by Dave Nathan


This album is another indication of the many forms the basic elements of jazz can be adapted to. Keyboard and accordion player, Dave Leslie, applies jazz principles to a series of tunes based in foreign lands. There are pieces which have rhythms derived from the Balkans, Ireland, Bulgaria, etc. On this international musical escapade, Leslie is joined by musicians who regularly appear on Dave Storrs' Corvallis, Oregon-based Louie label, including the inestimable Mr. Storrs himself on drums and percussion.

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Dave Leslie: The Brim

Read "The Brim" reviewed by Jim Santella


The modern mainstream thrives on adventure. Whether it be dissonance, rhythmic complexity, ethnic re-creations or creative improvisation, the artist has a freedom that is rare in most forms of music. Jazz, however, lives and grows because of artists who dare to be different.

Dave Leslie takes it to the edge with his hands held firmly around the middle. Tradition is never far away, as his compositions travel through The Old West, the Roaring Twenties, The Old Country, ...

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Album Review

Dave Leslie: The Brim

Read "The Brim" reviewed by Dave Nathan


This album is another indication of the many forms the basic elements of jazz can be adapted to. Keyboard and accordion player, Dave Leslie, applies jazz principles to a series of tunes based in foreign lands. There are pieces which have rhythms derived from the Balkans, Ireland, Bulgaria, etc. On this international musical escapade, Leslie is joined by musicians who regularly appear on Dave Storrs' Corvallis, Oregon-based Louie label, including the inestimable Mr. Storrs himself on drums and percussion.

To ...

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Album Review

Dave Leslie: The Brim

Read "The Brim" reviewed by Jim Santella


The modern mainstream thrives on adventure. Whether it be dissonance, rhythmic complexity, ethnic re-creations or creative improvisation, the artist has a freedom that is rare in most forms of music. Jazz, however, lives and grows because of artists who dare to be different.

Dave Leslie takes it to the edge with his hands held firmly around the middle. Tradition is never far away, as his compositions travel through The Old West, the Roaring Twenties, The Old Country, and midtown Manhattan. ...

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Recording

Louie Records releases "The Brim" by Dave Leslie

Louie Records releases "The Brim" by Dave Leslie

Source: All About Jazz

A member of the Portland jazz scene since the mid seventies, Dave Leslie has played with jazz greats Woody Shaw, Bobby Hutcherson, Jim Pepper and Charlie Rouse. He has also led the Famous Daves, the Dave Leslie Quintet and played in Freezer Burn, The Tone Sharks, Oomph, and the Mike Curtis Klezmer Quartet, among others. He has toured in Europe and North America. He obtained a B.A. in ethnomusicology from the University of Washington in the early seventies and went ...

Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Brim

Louie Records
2002

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