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Eric Felten: Seize The Night

Read "Seize The Night" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Wycliffe Gordon and Vincent Gardner are two of the best trombone players in the world, and both men also sing, on occasion, with wonderfully soulful voices. Eric Felten, on the other hand, is a crooner who also plays a mean trombone, and does both equally well on Seize The Night. Felten established himself as a fine trombonist early on in his career when he won the International Trombone Association's Frank Rosolino Award for best young trombone. While he continued along ...

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Eric Felten: Meets the Dek-Tette

Read "Meets the Dek-Tette" reviewed by Jim Santella


In a tribute to Mel Tormé and Marty Paich, veterans of the West Coast jazz scene gather with singer/trombonist Eric Felten to interpret enjoyable standards in their own sweet way. Felten's clear baritone voice gives the session a smooth texture that proves to be an appropriate homage to singer Tormé.

Patterned after Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool sessions, Marty Paich's Dek-tette had a full sound that made the small group sound like a full orchestra. The same ...

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Eric Felten - Seize the Night (Melotone)

Eric Felten - Seize the Night (Melotone)

Source: Master of a Small House

A doubler on voice and trombone, Eric Felten shares a page in common with the Jack Teagarden playbook. His methods on both bespeak a more recent vintage, but there's still something classic in tone about this laidback set. Felten's lubricious phrasing brings to mind J.J. Johnson and is largely free of grit or growl. No tailgate or gutbucket exclamations here, just a smoothly urbane vocabulary whether he's phrasing a lead line or a lyric. A Harvard alum, he built his ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Seize The Night

Self Produced
2010

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Meets the Dek-Tette

V.S.O.P. Records
2005

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