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Professor Aucoin & the Jazz Scientists: Mystified
by Jack Bowers
There is a heap of soul, blues, rock, funk and heart on Professor Tim Aucoin's album, Mystified. On the other hand, the jazz content is in rather short supply. The Jazz Scientists are good at what they do, but what they do is more akin to a nightclub act than a jazz performance, at times reminiscent of Sam Butera and the Witnesses but without the luminous personas of Louis Prima and Keely Smith to raise them above the norm. Aucoin ...
read moreRandy Hoexter: Fromage
by Dan Bilawsky
In manufacturing, it's nearly impossible to work with substandard raw materials and wind up with a high quality finished product. While the same tenet often holds true in music, pianist Randy Hoexter is out to prove that the manner of presentation can overcome the matter itself. On the aptly titled Fromage, Hoexter rearranges a selection of disposable, cheesy" pop pieces, breathing new life into songs that may or may not have deserved it. The majority of the ...
read moreThe Randy Hoexter Group Releases "Fromage": Jazz Interpretations of Cheesy Pop Hits
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Michael Bloom Media Relations
"Fromage" is Atlanta-based pianist/composer Randy Hoexter's second recording as a leader, following his highly-regarded debut Radiant. Inspired by The River, Herbie Hancock's tribute to Joni Mitchell, Randy chose to do a collection of cover songs, with the intent of re-inventing familiar material. However, instead of selecting deep and poetic material such as Mitchell's, Randy decided to take on the arguably greater challenge of cheesy" pop songs. Once this concept was established, Randy interviewed many of his fellow musicians, did research, ...
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Randy Hoexter Group - Fromage (2012)
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Something Else!
When John Stetch led a piano trio through interpretations of television theme songs on a CD released a few years ago, I was intrigued, and ultimately, charmed, by this originative collection of covers. TV Trio, as this record is called, even wound up on my year-end “best of 2009″ list for mainstream and modern jazz, because he brought fresh arrangements to what are really some well-written tunes. By taking these songs out of their original context of just being bumper ...
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From: FromageBy Randy Hoexter