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Stephans, Liebman, Copland, Gress's Quartette Oblique on Sunnyside

Stephans, Liebman, Copland, Gress's Quartette Oblique on Sunnyside

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey

Stephans, Liebman, Copland, Gress: Quartette Oblique (Sunnyside) Attempting the impossible, Rifftides once again tries to catch up. We all know that is impossible because record companies refuse to accept that jazz is dead; they keep releasing new music. It took too long for me to mention this superb quartet album, which has been out for a year or so. From Dave Liebman’s falling-away tenor saxophone insinuations that introduce Wayne Shorter’s “Nardis” through the concluding exploration of Miles Davis’s “So What” ...

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Recent Listening: Quartette Oblique

Recent Listening: Quartette Oblique

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey

Michael Stephans, David Liebman, Marc Copland, Drew Gress: Quartette Oblique (Sunnyside) Opening the album, Liebman launches the familiar opening phrases of “Nardis” from his tenor saxophone, toying with them, letting each note fall away. The rhythm section soon joins him. Within seconds the toying is over and the album’s muscles are rippling in a show of strength that for more than an hour does not recede, regardless of tempo. The energy is in great part due to Liebman’s intensity on ...

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STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: David Sanborn and Bob James Team up Again for Quartette Humaine

STLJN Saturday Video Showcase: David Sanborn and Bob James Team up Again for Quartette Humaine

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

With a paucity of touring jazz musicians coming to St. Louis for the next couple of weeks, and thus no upcoming shows to preview in this space, this seems like an opportune time to take a closer look at Quartette Humaine, the latest album from saxophonist and St. Louis native David Sanborn. The collaborative effort with keyboardist Bob James (who grew up in the northwest Missouri town of Marshall) is the first time the two have recorded together since their ...

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Bob James and David Sanborn Pay Tribute to Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond on New Album, "Quartette Humaine", Available May 21 on Okeh

Bob James and David Sanborn Pay Tribute to Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond on New Album, "Quartette Humaine", Available May 21 on Okeh

Source: DL Media

OKeh will release keyboardist-composer-arranger Bob James and alto saxophonist David Sanborn‘s new album, Quartette Humaine, on May 21, 2013. The project is the first collaboration between the two musicians since their 1986 Platinum-selling, GRAMMY® Award-winning album, Double Vision. An all-acoustic quartet offering, Quartette Humaine pays tribute to the late iconic pianist-composer Dave Brubeck, putting a prime spotlight on his work that featured alto saxophonist Paul Desmond. “David and I realized long ago that Double Vision had become more successful than ...

Radio

STLJN Audio Archive: Quartette Tres Bien - Stepping Out

STLJN Audio Archive: Quartette Tres Bien - Stepping Out

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

For this week's Audio Archive post, we revisit Stepping Out!, a 1966 release by the popular St. Louis group Quartette Trés Bien. A groove-oriented piano-trio-plus-percussionist, the QTB rose to fame during the Gaslight Square era, right around the same time that Ramsey Lewis and Young-Holt Unlimited were successfully purveying similar sounds up in Chicago. The band's fifth album to get national distribution as part of their deal with Decca Records, Stepping Out! has been out of print for decades and ...

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STLJN Audio Archive: Quartette Tres Bien - Boss Tres Bien

STLJN Audio Archive: Quartette Tres Bien - Boss Tres Bien

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman

Today's Audio Archive post features the Quartette Tres Bien's debut recording for a national label, and comes to us via the blog Soundological Investimigations. QTB were one of the better known groups of St. Louis' Gaslight Square era, and were sometimes compared with Ramsey Lewis, the Three Sounds, and other piano-based groups playing groove-oriented music. The members of the group as heard on Boss Tres Bien were Jeter Thompson (piano), Richard Simmons (bass), Albert St. James (drums) and Percy James ...

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