Music and More on “Cloud Nine”…

jazzandblues.blogspot.com Saxophonist Jacam Manricks is a player with a strong melodic sensibility, performing on this album with a potent unit which includes the leader on alto saxophone, Adam Rogers on...

StepTempest weighs in on Jacam Manricks “Cloud Nine”…

steptempest.blogspot.com For his second release on the Positone label (and 4th overall), alto saxophonist Jacám Manricks, a native of Brisbane, Australia, has assembled quite a cast to play his music. ...

Dan Bilawsky on “Cloud Nine”…

www.allaboutjazz.com The euphoria-based title of Jacam Manricks' latest album makes perfect sense. After all, who wouldn't be on cloud nine with a band like this?! For his fourth album, the...

Bruce Lindsay chimes in on Steve Davis “Gettin’ It Done”…

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=42443 Calling trombonist Steve Davis a veteran is probably inappropriate—after all, he was a mere 44 year-old when he recorded Gettin' It Done in October, 2011. However, he has such...

Brent Black reviews the new Steve Davis CD “Gettin’ It Done”…

www.criticaljazz.com  The latest and most appropriately titled release from trombone wizard Steve Davis proves that both Davis and his label Posi-Tone are if nothing but consistent in releasing some of...

SomethingElse reviews the new Steve Davis CD…

http://somethingelsereviews.com/2012/07/07/half-notes-steve-davis-gettin-it-done-2012/ Former Jazz Messenger Steve Davis might not have the name recognition of his Blakey forbear Curtis Fuller, but he’s no less a talented trombone player. We last examined his...

Lucid Culture reviews Orrin Evans “Flip the Script”…

lucidculture.wordpress.com Orrin Evans’ New Trio Album Is One of the Year’s Best Pianist Orrin Evans has been on a creative rampage lately. Recorded at a single marathon session at a Brooklyn studio this...

Brent Black is on “Cloud Nine” with Jacam Manricks …

http://www.criticaljazz.com/2012/06/jacam-manricks-cloud-nine-posi-tone.html Cloud Nine should easily make my year end best of list! Jacam Manricks musical stock is an arrow pointing straight up. Aside from Cloud Nine as his fourth release as a leader,...

StepTempest reviews the new Steve Davis CD…

steptempest.blogspot.com Trombonist-composer-educatorSteve Davis teaches at Hartt School of Music's Jackie McLean Institute and The Artist Collective.  Mentored by saxophonist McLean, Davis (born in Binghampton, NY and raised in Worcester, MA) stayed in...