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The Marvin Stamm Quartet: Alone Together
by Jack Bowers
Alone Together is not only another splendid album by trumpeter Marvin Stamm's quartet (does he ever produce anything less?), it also comes with a bonus--a DVD whose playing sequence duplicates the CD and allows one to see and hear Stamm, pianist Bill Mays, bassist Rufus Reid and drummer Ed Soph as they study one another, alertly interact and carefully work things out in a concert taped on November 2006.
The quartet as it now stands has been performing together for ...
read moreThe Marvin Stamm/Ed Soph Project: Live at Birdland
by Rick Bruner
There's often a vibe in live performance that isn't easily captured in the studio, especially when the musicians are highly accomplished jazz veterans performing before an appreciative audience. Trumpeter Marvin Stamm and drummer Ed Soph co-lead this wonderful band, recorded live at Birdland in New York City. Bassist Rufus Reid and pianist Bill Mays complete the quartet, which is augmented on four tunes by guitarist John Abercrombie. Stamm's warm, burnished tone on trumpet and flugelhorn melds wonderfully with the tight ...
read moreMarvin Stamm/Ed Soph Project: "Live at Birdland" on Jazzed Media
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All About Jazz
Why a live" CD? Why at Birdland? There are times when everything just seems right for doing something like this. The quartet had several bookings in the New York area within the space of eight days - a concert in Connecticut, the COTA Festival in Delaware Water Gap, PA, and four nights in Birdland in New York City. Ed Soph and I had been talking about recording another CD, and this seemed to be the perfect time. We’ve spoken often ...
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Pink Martini's long-awaited sophomore release, "Hang On Little Tomato", Follow up to the bands 650,000 unit sold debut, "Sympathique"
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All About Jazz
Portland, OR - Somewhere between a 1930s Cuban dance orchestra, a classical chamber music ensemble, a Brazilian marching street band and Japanese film noir is the 12-piece Pink Martini. The group's much-anticipated second album, Hang on Little Tomato, arrives in stores on October 19, 2004. Part language lesson, part Hollywood musical, the Portland, Oregon-based little orchestra" was created in 1994 by Harvard-graduate Thomas M. Lauderdale to play at political fundraisers for progressive causes such as public broadcasting, clean water, libraries, ...
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