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...This gig presents his wispy tone and melodic flair with pianist Gerald Clayton from the album Trios: Ocean, one of three 2022 Blue Note releases, alongside guitarist Marvin Sewell....
...Conductor Pablo Heras-Casado has led multiple Wagners at El Real; the cast includes Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley and South Korean bass Jongmin Park....
...The trattoria serves Italian wines and seasonal dishes such as sea bass with saffron, red peppers and basil, with much of the produce grown in the grounds of Villa Bologna....
...Ocean, with pianist and guitarist Gerald Clayton and Anthony Wilson, and Sacred Thread, featuring guitarist Julian Lage and percussionist Zakir Hussain, are due to be released later this year....
...Next to him, Gerald Finley is making his role debut as Leporello....
...As a bonus, this two-disc set comes with a work by contemporary Irish composer Gerald Barry, as each of the live concerts did....
...The one who really lifted the performance was bass Gerald Finley, singing with a generous depth of emotion that made the King of Scotland for once a linchpin of the opera....
...Gerald Finzi’s Let us garlands bring, a collection of five Shakespeare settings, dates from 1942 and is shadowed by wartime loss....
...He sits at a huge grand piano on the stage of the Gerald W....
...Coltrane’s “Blue Train” was a warm-up cruise, a Monk medley smoothed out the edges and, in the second half, “A Night in Tunisia” was uplifted by Gerald Cleaver’s drum solo....
...The last we heard from Gérald Toto was on last year’s Toto Bona Lokua album, Bondeko, where he teamed up with the Cameroonian bassist Richard Bona and the Congolese guitarist Lokua Kanza, reigniting the...
...Finley’s role debut as Bluebeard sounds gravely convincing, although a real bass might project with more weight. Angela Denoke’s Judith is strongly affecting....
...Here they were underpinned by the stripped-down percussion of Gerald Cleaver, who replaced the album’s Tyshawn Sorey on drums....
...Toto, the Cameroonian bass player Richard Bona and the Congolese guitarist Lokua Kanza....
...Four years ago, Gerald Barry cracked a bold joke....
...When William Parker (bass), Craig Taborn (piano) and Gerald Cleaver (drums) operate as a trio they call themselves Farmers By Nature....
...Gerald Barry’s operatic adaptation of The Importance of Being Earnest has little right to work....
...This was particularly so with US pianist Gerald Clayton, whose close musical relationship with bassist Joe Sanders stretches back 15 years....
...Avishai Cohen’s Triveni Dark Nights (Anzic Records) Gerald Clayton guests on US trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s third Triveni CD, adding piano on “I Fall in Love Too Easily”, a tribute to Chet Baker....
...At the head of the cast Gerald Finley makes a wonderfully inspiring and stylish William Tell....
...They finished with an irreverent cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain”, the verses played at triple speed, with a fast ukulele blur replacing the aggressive languor of the original; and then the famous bass...
...More impressive than either, indeed the most impressive feature of the whole performance, was the bass, Gerald Finley, grand and beautiful of voice, verbally poetic, and in the biblical passages of the creation...
...Cleaver 25 years ago, and this unit, with Thomas Morgan on bass, has been together for eight years....
...In his prime he made three studio recordings with Gerald Moore (1955, 1962 and 1971) and one with Jörg Demus (1968), and it’s the second of the Moore collaborations, taped when Fischer-Dieskau was 38, that...
...Gerald Clayton and Christian McBride push envelopes on piano and bass; guests include veteran trumpeter Clark Terry. Highly recommended....
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