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Despite a good first album, On the Brink, Five Play took their sweet time recording Five Play...Plus in 2004. The "Plus" indicates outside players on several tracks, but even without these players, Five Play remind one of a scaled-down big band. For those unfamiliar with the group, it's interesting to note that unlike 99 percent of the active jazz units playing today, the band is all female, a fact that's even more unusual when one notes that none of them sing. Fronted by drummer Sherrie Maricle, Five Play consist of two saxophonists, tenor Anat Cohen and alto Karolina Strassmayer, a pianist, Tomoko Ohno, and bassist Noriko Ueda. The lively arrangements give a number of traditional songs -- Dave Brubeck's "Theme from Mr. Broadway" and Lew Brown/Sammy Fain's "That Old Feeling" -- fresh treatments. Five Play deliver fairly traditional mainstream jazz, but their eclectic choice of material -- "If I Only Had a Brain" and "On the Good Ship Lollipop" -- gives them a distinct edge. On half the tracks, the band is joined by either trumpeter/flügelhornist Jami Dauber or Barbara Laronga. This gives songs like Hank Mobley's "Funk in a Deep Freeze" and Chick Corea's "Bud Powell" an even bigger sound. Five Play...Plus is a good album by a good group, and with any luck, it will serve to introduce Five Play to an appreciative audience. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford Jr.
Audio Mixer: Kent Heckman.
Liner Note Author: Nat Hentoff.
Recording information: Red Rock Studios, Saylorsburg, PA (04/19/2004).
Arrangers: Anat Cohen; Karolina Strassmayer; Tomoko Ohno; Rich Shemaria.
Five Play: Noriko Ueda (double bass); Sherrie Maricle, Tomoko Ohno, Anat Cohen, Karolina Strassmayer.
Personnel: Karolina Strassmayer (flute, alto saxophone); Anat Cohen (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Jami Dauber, Barbara Laronga (trumpet, flugelhorn); Tomoko Ohno (piano); Sherrie Maricle (drums).
Additional personnel: Barbara Loronga (trumpet, flugelhorn); Jami Dauber.
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| | George Benson Absolute Benson CD (2000)
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$10.65 This is an Enhanced audio CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
ABSOLUTE BENSON was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album.
With the help of his longtime friend and producer, Tommy LiPuma, George Benson crafts a guitar heavy, yet commercially viable album with ABSOLUTE BENSON. Benson here delivers guitar work similar to his '70s CTI releases; his guitar licks are lyrical, logical, and liquid, and his sparse vocals are also impressive.
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| | Rahsaan Roland Kirk Man Who Cried Fire CD (2002)
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$10.39 Perhaps more than any other player, Rahsaan Roland Kirk embodied the entire history of not only jazz but 20th century American music in his playing. No matter which of the many horns he played (more often than not three at once), he would cut through an original composition, something from the current pop repertoire, or a jazz or R&B nugget that hadn't been heard in a while, and open the floodgates, bringing all of the other musics he knew to bear on the present selection. And Kirk was not one for excess; his humor, his fire, and his soulfulness were always displayed with great tenderness and taste. This set, originally issued on Joel Dorn's Night Records label in 1991, features a series of unreleased live performances from the mid-'70s. There are six from the Keystone in San Francisco, one from the Olympia Theater in Paris, and one from the It Club in Los Angeles. Sidemen include future bright lights like pianists Hilton Ruiz and Ron Burton, trombonist Steve Turre, bassist Henry Pearson, and a host of different drummers, including John Goldsmith and ...
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