2006-01-30
For those programmers who pine for another Vince Guaraldi experience after watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas," here's another set of simple but pleasing piano-bass-drums trio music. Other than yet another ill-fated rendition of "Autumn Leaves" (arrrrgggh! enough already!), Roger and his pals competently handle these arrangements and the rhythm section actually gets to pop out into the spotlight with some regularity.1/06 MJVD Jazz-Contemporary
THE JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET
New World
PAUL RENZ QUINTET
Rebop
JASON LINDNER
Now vs. Now
THE SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA
Rising Sun
VARIOUS
Rumble In the Great Lakes (Best of the Detroit Jazz Fest 2007)
JERRY LEAKE AND RANDY ROOS
Cubist Live
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