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Album Review

Zeena Quinn: Going My Way

Read "Going My Way" reviewed by Jack Bowers


With so many singers these days competing to tempt the ears of an ever-shrinking jazz audience, success often rests not only on the talents of the vocalist but on the songs he or she chooses to interpret. On Going My Way, San Francisco-based vocalist Zeena Quinn puts her best foot forward on the opening numbers, “Lover" and “So in Love" (it's hard to go astray with Rodgers and Hart or Cole Porter) but it takes her quite a while to ...

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The Sascha Jacobsen Quintet: Outer Sunset

Read "Outer Sunset" reviewed by Javier AQ Ortiz


Outer Sunset begins with generously thick, dense and spacious earthy bass lines, giving way into a Songosized jazzy march in “Mount Uno” that, in turn, becomes a more straight-ahead Latin montuno with an interesting harmonic bridge to a solo by the leader of The Sascha Jacobsen Quintet. Throughout the album Jacobsen carries, supports, drives, and triggers off melodic and harmonic reactions that enhance his percussive take on endemic convergences between jazz and Afro-Cuban music. Even so, the tune in question ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Going My Way

Self Produced
2020

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Outer Sunset

Snarg Records
2003

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