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Jasper Lundgaard / Bob Rockwell / Doug Raney / Henrik Gunde, Aage Tanggaard: Love & Peace: The Music of Harold Parlan

Read "Love & Peace: The Music of Harold Parlan" reviewed by Chris Mosey


Maybe it was the mournful sound of the foghorns belonging to the ships passing below the Great Belt Bridge. Or the music he'd just been listening to, and featured on this album. But Harold Parlan's thoughts strayed from the care home where he now lives in the small Danish coastal town of Korsør (pop. 14,501) to Rudy Van Gelder's studio at Englewood Cliffs on the New Jersey shoreline. “It was like recording in someone's living room," he ...

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The Bob Rockwell 5: Bob's Wilder

Read "Bob's Wilder" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Here's another album to file under “p" for “pleasant surprises." Bob Rockwell, an American saxophonist who traveled to Denmark as a young man and has lived there ever since (which may explain the omission of his name in both the New Grove Dictionary and Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz ), is a persuasive modernist on tenor or soprano who surveys the music of composer Alec Wilder on this splendidly recorded and invariably charming studio session.

Besides the leader, the Rockwell 5 ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Jungleopolis

Victor
2024

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Gong

Gateway Music
2016

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Love & Peace: The...

Storyville Records
2013

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Grey To Blue

Stunt Records/Sundance Music
2008

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Bob's Ben

Stunt Records/Sundance Music
2006

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Bob's Wilder

Stunt Records/Sundance Music
2004

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