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Album Review

Native Soul: Soul Step

Read "Soul Step" reviewed by Greg Simmons


Native Soul Soul Step is a stylistically coherent and well executed effort. The quartet--a classic keyboards, saxophone, bass and drums lineup--plays mostly straight-ahead, but adds enough instrumental and musical variation to keep it fresh throughout. Keyboardist Noah Haidu is the collective's founder, and is the source of a good portion of the music's diversity. By switching between piano and Fender Rhodes--with a dash of B-3 organ and synthesizer--he adds just the right touch of funk and nostalgia to ...

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Native Soul: Rough Jazz

Read "Rough Jazz" reviewed by Ivana Ng


Native Soul's debut album, Rough Jazz, can be viewed as an evolution from prudent bebop to hard bop with more soulful, daring rhythms. On the first half of the record, Peter Brainin's tenor's blithe timbre provides melodies that are often overpowering; pianist (and Fender Rhodes player) Noah Haidu subtly pulls him back with low-register notes. During the CD celebration at Sweet Rhythm on July 6, Haidu's soulful riffs on the keyboard had an intense gravity that might ...

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Recording

Down-Home Funk and Hard Bop on Native Soul's "Soul Step"

Down-Home Funk and Hard Bop on Native Soul's "Soul Step"

Source: Gapplegate Music Review by Grego Edwards

A soulful way is what the Native Soul quartet brings to the table. Their second release Soul Step (Talking Drum 2010) gives the listener a generous 70 minutes of originals and standards that cover a kind of updated approach to the funk (in the Horace Silver sense) and late hard bop current as part of the scene in the late '60s-early '70s. In there too is a little of the electricity of the earthy forms of fusion from that time ...

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Native Soul CD Celebration Live At Sweet Rhythm Thursday, July 6th Sets at 8PM and 10PM

Native Soul CD Celebration Live At Sweet Rhythm Thursday, July 6th Sets at 8PM and 10PM

Source: All About Jazz

Native Soul CD Celebration Live At Sweet Rhythm Thursday, July 6th

Peter Brainin-saxophones Noah Haidu-piano Marcus McLaurine-bass Steve Johns-drums

Sweet Rhythm 88 Seventh Avenue South Phone 212-255-3626 for reservations http://www.sweetrhythmny.com Sets at 8PM and 10PM

Native Soul is the combined effort of drummer Steve Johns, saxophonist Peter Brainin, bassist Marcus McLaurine, and pianist Noah Haidu. Their upcoming CD release Rough Jazz (Apria ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Soul Step

Talking Drum Records
2011

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Rough Jazz

Apria Records
2006

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