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The Psychic Horns: From the One
by Jack Bowers
The New England–based Psychic Horns slip immediately into a funky groove and stay there throughout much of their genial debut album on Whaling City. The horns are trumpeter John Allmark (who composed five of the album’s eleven tunes), saxophonist Dan Moretti (who wrote two others) and trombonist John Wheeler. A fourth horn, baritone Bob Bowlby, is present on some tracks, perhaps even most of them; I can’t say for sure, as the baritone isn’t always audible in ensemble passages and ...
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by Glenn Astarita
Northeasterners; trumpeter John Allmark, woodwinds ace Dan Moretti and trombonist John Wheeler recently reunited to record their inaugural release. Hence, no underlying agendas here, as the band pursues a ”Tower of Power” style funk-groove chart on the opener “From the One”, which is all about 70’s style, tightly coordinated unison horn arrangements atop crisp beats and radiant soloing, amid keyboardist Ben Cook’s judicious injections of harpsichord and Fender Rhodes-based motifs.
The ensemble renders blaring, reverb-laden horns for the intro of ...
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by Dave Nathan
All masters of their instruments, The Psychic Horns are John Allmark, trumpet, John Wheeler, trombone and Dan Moretti, woodwinds. Their debut album runs with a play list of originals by Allmark and Moretti plus two pieces of familiar music. The liner notes hawk the varied backgrounds of the players, funk, pop, jazz, etc., and there's a tad of all here, with contemporary pop (rock) appearing to prevail. While the three horn players get the prime spot on the marquee, the ...
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by Glenn Astarita
Northeasterners; trumpeter John Allmark, woodwinds ace Dan Moretti and trombonist John Wheeler recently reunited to record their inaugural release. Hence, no underlying agendas here, as the band pursues a Tower of Power" style funk-groove chart on the opener From the One", which is all about 70's style, tightly coordinated unison horn arrangements atop crisp beats and radiant soloing, amid keyboardist Ben Cook’s judicious injections of harpsichord and Fender Rhodes-based motifs.
The ensemble renders blaring, reverb-laden horns for the intro of ...
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