Ralph Bowen - Five

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2009
Time: 63:50
Size: 146,5 MB
Label: Criss Cross Records
Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Art: Front

Tracks Listing:
 1. Step Lightly -  9:59
 2. Baby Girl -  7:46
 3. First hiatus -  7:58
 4. Free Time -  9:43
 5. Blues Cruz -  7:13
 6. Drowning Man - 12:28
 7. Rahsaan's run -  8:40

Musicians:
Ralph Bowen - tenor saxophone;
John Swana - trumpet;
Peter Bernstein - guitar;
Sam Yahel - Hammond B3 Organ;
Dana Hall - drums.

A member of Out of the Blue in the 1980s and an oft-employed freelancer in the ‘90s, Canada-born saxophonist Ralph Bowen has been steadily blazing his own path through the mainstream jazz scene. With FIVE, Bowen continues his reinvigoration of the jazz organ group sound, with leanings not toward classic soul-jazz (Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff) but rather towards the more adventurous end of the spectrum (Larry Young), namely hard bop with tinges of fusion. Bowen’s combo, including ultra-modern organ ace Sam Yahel and guitarist Peter Bernstein, burns brightly and intelligently throughout.

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