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Steve Haines

Steve Haines (double bass) has played with Wycliffe Gordon, Paul Bollenback, Joel Frahm, Ralph Bowen, Joe Chambers, Dick Oatts, Fred Wesley, Adam Nussbaum, Bob Berg, and Joe Williams. His first album as a leader The Steve Haines Quintet: Beginner's Mind (Artist’s House Records) received international critical acclaim and was hailed as "one of the best inside/outside records of the year." His newest album as a leader, The Steve Haines Quintet with Jimmy Cobb: Stickadiboom (Zoho records) is available at www.amazon.com, or itunes. His most recent recording as a sideman is Chad Eby’s Broken Shadows (Cellar Live records), with Doug Wamble, and Jason and Branford Marsalis.

He is an associate professor and directs the Miles Davis Program in Jazz Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Haines holds a B.M. in Jazz Performance from St. Francis Xavier University in Canada and a M.M. in Music (Jazz Studies) from the University of North Texas, where he was a member of the UNT One O’clock Lab Band. Haines' music is published at the University of Northern Colorado Press. Steve orchestrated and arranged the musical Ella: The Life and Music of Ella Fitzgerald. This past year Steve performed in New Zealand, Czech Republic, New York City, Washington D.C., and Canada. He is a recipient of the North Carolina Jazz Fellowship and a proud member of the Greensboro Warriors Hockey team.

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Steve Haines and The Third Floor Orchestra: Steve Haines and The Third Floor Orchestra

Read "Steve Haines and The Third Floor Orchestra" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Dare al lettore—nel breve spazio di una recensione—l'idea del contenuto e del valore (in un giudizio ovviamente soggettivo) di un album spinge a usare tutte quelle classificazioni nate per orientarci. In poche parole, creare delle mappe è utile ma se il territorio è ricco di elementi diversi si rischia di usare etichette fuorvianti. L'ascolto di questo disco orchestrale di Steve Haines spinge a queste considerazioni per il suo collocarsi tra differenti universi musicali (folk, classica, jazz, canzone ...

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Joe Chambers: Samba De Maracatu

Read "Samba De Maracatu" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Batterista leggendario, compartecipe di grandi pagine del bop avanzato degli anni sessanta settanta, con Wayne Shorter, Andrew Hill, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson e decine di altri, il batterista Joe Chambers torna in casa Blue Note dopo un'assenza più che ventennale. Nella storica etichetta fondata da Alfred Lion, Chambers era soprattutto un sideman e l'unico album da leader l'ha inciso nel 1998 (Mirrors) in un frizzante gruppo con Mulgrew Miller, Vincent Herring e altri. Qui era lecito attendersi ...

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Joe Chambers: Samba De Maracatu

Read "Samba De Maracatu" reviewed by Chris May


Drummer Joe Chambers was unusual among the drummers who emerged on the Blue Note label in the mid 1960s in that not only did he generate a powerful beat, he wrote strong tunes, too. He played on, and often composed pieces for, albums by such Blue Note luminaries as saxophonists Wayne Shorter and Joe Henderson, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson and pianists McCoy Tyner and Andrew Hill, among others. From 1970, with the decline of Blue Note, Chambers led a peripatetic existence ...

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Steve Haines: And the Third Floor Orchestra

Read "And the Third Floor Orchestra" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


In the Fifties and Sixties it was very common to have jazz recordings that would feature a vocal or instrumental soloist like Ella Fitzgerald or Stan Getz in front of a full orchestra. That still happens today but nowhere as frequently as it once did. Bassist and composer Steve Haines revives that tradition with an amazing session that sets vocalist Becca Stevens, saxophonist Chad Eby and pianist Joey Calderazzo against the warm, surging sounds of a string-laden full orchestra.

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Steve Haines: And the Third Floor Orchestra

Read "And the Third Floor Orchestra" reviewed by Jack Bowers


This is by and large lovely music, to be sure, but to paraphrase a Burger King ad from years gone by, “Where's the jazz?" Aside from a handful of perfunctory solos by soprano saxophonist Chad Eby and pianist Joey Calderazzo, there isn't much here. Instead, composer / arranger Steve Haines and the Third Floor Orchestra canvass the sort of rarefied landscapes reminiscent of “music to (fill in the blank) to" by such moonlit mid-twentieth century maestros as Percy Faith, Mantovani, ...

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Steve Haines Quintet with Jimmy Cobb: Stickadiboom

Read "Stickadiboom" reviewed by Larry Reni Thomas


Bassist Steve Haines Quintet 's impressive Stickadiboom is a thought-provoking, energetic, excellently composed and arranged, modern jazz album. Haines, a Canadian transplant who directs the Miles Davis Program in Jazz Studies at Greensboro's University of North Carolina, lived in New York City during a research assignment, playing, hanging out and immersing himself in the jazz scene, where he met legendary drummer, Jimmy Cobb, who is featured on six of the eight selections. Cobb's exceptionally steady and sturdy drum work keeps ...

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Steve Haines Quintet: Beginner's Mind

Read "Beginner's Mind" reviewed by Ken Hohman


Do bass players make better jazz records? Back in 2000, the under-rated bassist John Goldsby released Viewpoint, and I haven't stopped listening to it since. There's no denying the consistent glories of William Parker's recent run on record. And for the past year Dave Holland has been redefining the way a big band can sound, making brilliant music in the process. Now comes a remarkable debut from North Carolina double bassist and composer Steve Haines... perhaps one of the finest ...

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The Steve Haines Quintet Release "Stickdaboom" on Zoho Records Debut

The Steve Haines Quintet Release "Stickdaboom" on Zoho Records Debut

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

New York, NY, March 2, 2009 -- Bassist Steve Haines directs the Miles Davis Program in Jazz Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. With that responsibility comes many things including the future of young people dedicating their lives to music. Haines has been involved with some other activities as well besides his educational obligations at the University. The 2007 recording of his second release, Stickdaboom, is set to make its debut on March 10, 2009 on the ...

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Morning Star

Blue Canoe Records
2022

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Samba De Maracatu

Blue Note Records
2021

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And the Third Floor...

Justin Time Records
2019

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Steve Haines and The...

Justin Time Records
2019

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Stickadiboom

Zoho Music
2009

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Evensong

From: Morning Star
By Steve Haines

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