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Adam Hersh
Adam has performed with Bob Mintzer, Danny Janklow, Gary Pratt, Bob McCheseny, Scott Whitfield, Rob Lockhart, Pete Christlieb, Ike Sturm, Calabria Foti, Tierney Sutton, Gene Coye, Dave Robaire, Nick Mancini, Anthony Strong, Dan Schnelle, Ben Van Gelder, Kevin Kanner, Mike Cottone, Graham Dechter, Barbara Morrison, Munir Hossn, and Doug Webb.
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Adam Hersh: Tornado Watch
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Tornado Watch is a uniquely attractive album from pianist Adam Hersh and his terrific sidemen. It offers ten tracks of intelligent, intensely-performed music. All the songs here are Hersh originals (save one) and each was recorded live in Los Angeles at the Sam First" jazz club. Woe V Shade," obviously a politically directed word play, is a multi-tempoed track with an eight-note theme over a frantic foundation. Hersh takes off on an extended and energetic Rhodes solo, ...
Continue ReadingWill Lyle: L.A. Source Codes
by Kyle Simpler
For computer programmers, a source code is a piece of computer language, which they are able to read and transfer and put to use in a practical way. With his debut album, L.A. Source Codes, bassist Will Lyle makes a connection between this concept and jazz. As with computer programming, jazz has its own language, and learning the language of jazz can be somewhat challenging. A skilled player, however, can take musical source codes," such as chords, scales and arpeggios, ...
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From: L.A. Source CodesBy Adam Hersh