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Adam Shulman Septet: West Meets East
by C. Andrew Hovan
Quiet as it's kept, too many of today's finest jazz artists are given short shrift by an industry that seems to value product of a fleeting nature over true craft and a reverence for the jazz legacy. This makes it particularly challenging for a talent like Adam Shulman to break through to a wider audience. A fixture on the Bay Area scene since 2002, the pianist has a knack for accompanying singers such as Paula West and often performs as ...
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by Jack Bowers
The west" here is represented by San Francisco-based pianist and group leader Adam Shulman, the east" by the other half-dozen members of Shulman's impressive septet. Even though the reasons that led to the alliance are ambiguous, what matters is the payoff, and that is more than admirable from any vantage point. As if to mirror the ensemble's six-and-one makeup, Shulman wrote six of the album's seven engaging numbers; the seventh (the rapid-fire Whose Blues") was composed by ...
read moreStephen Riley: Hart-beat
by Greg Simmons
The tenor saxophone trio is one of the great, if somewhat underutilized lineups in jazz. Stephen Riley has made a study of the format and delivers a fine addition to a limited canon with Hart-beat. Eschewing piano and leaving the horn to carry the musical weight all by itself is an idea that was recorded by the great Sonny Rollins as early as Way Out West (Contemporary, 1957). That record set a very high standard that is rarely ...
read moreAri Ambrose and Stephen Riley - Tenor Treats Two (Steeplechase)
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Master of a Small House
Resuming right where its companion volume left off, this disc delivers another stimulating hour-plus colloquy between its co-leaders. Tenorist Ari Ambrose gets top billing on the tray card, but it's very much an affair of equals, onset to finish. Stephen Riley is the more overtly mercurial and idiosyncratic of the two frontline partners. His lushly-conceived tone and phrasing are instantly recognizable, a post-millennial alloy of Lester Young disciples running from Don Byas through Teo Macero to Warne Marsh an on ...
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Ari Ambrose and Stephen Riley - Tenor Treats 2 (Steeplechase)
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Master of a Small House
Resuming right where its companion volume left off, this disc delivers another stimulating hour-plus colloquy between its co-leaders. Tenorist Ari Ambrose gets top billing on the tray card, but it's very much an affair of equals, onset to finish. Stephen Riley is the more overtly mercurial and idiosyncratic of the two frontline partners. His lushly-conceived tone and phrasing are instantly recognizable, a post-millennial alloy of Lester Young disciples running from Don Byas through Teo Macero to Warne Marsh an on ...
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Saxophonists Frank Wess, Lew Tabakin, Wayne Escoffrey & Stephen Riley Convene for 'Boudoir Tenors': Feb 28-Mar.2
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All About Jazz
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 1/25/02
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Listing Information: Producer: Jazz at Lincoln Center Event: Jazz at the Penthouse: Boudoir Tenors Featuring Frank Wess, Lew Tabackin, Wayne Escoffery, and Stephen Riley, with Bill Charlap, Peter Washington, and Kenny Washington. Date/Time: Thursday, Friday & Saturday, February 28, March 1 & 2, ...
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Saxophonists Frank Wess, Lew Tabackin, Wayne Escoffery & Stephen Riley Convene For ‘Boudoir Tenors’: Feb. 28
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All About Jazz
Features rhythm section of Bill Charlap (piano), Peter Washington (bass), and Kenny Washington (drums).
Jazz at Lincoln Center (J@LCLC), as part of its expanded Jazz at the Penthouse programming, will produce a special concert highlighting the rich ballad tradition of the tenor saxophone, as performed by four diverse and acclaimed practitioners of that instrument. “Boudoir Tenors” will take place on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, February 28, March 1 and 2, 2002 at 8pm in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse.
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