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
Various Blue Note Artists
Somethin’ New
RICHARD OPPENHEIM
Greenhorn In A Red State
THE MIKE LONGO TRIO
Float Like a Butterfly
JAKE BERGEVIN
Holding Back the Dawn
VARIOUS
Rumble In the Great Lakes (Best of the Detroit Jazz Fest 2007)
OUTER BRIDGE ENSEMBLE
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