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OMNITONE PRESS RELEASES
[Press about OmniTone]
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Marionettes
on a High Wire offers a
balance of grace, wit, beauty (05-Feb-01)
OmniTone leaps into 2001 with Marionettes on a High Wire
(OmniTone 12101), a breathtaking new release from Baikida Carroll.
His last highly acclaimed album, Door of the Cage (Soul Note), was
likened by the press to Miles' Davis' In a Silent Way.
Marionettes uses virtually the same group, including
Hudson Valley mystic Erica Lindsay (tenor saxophone), AACM-member
Adegoke Steve Colson (piano), volcanic Pheeroan ak Laff
(drums) and group newcomer and veteran musician Mike
Formanek (bass).
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- Jim
McNeely's ten-piece band debut redefines the large ensemble (05-Feb-01)
BROOKLYN, NY -- OmniTone enters the second year of its
Discovery Series with a scorching romp across the territory
of the "big band" in jazz. The Jim McNeely
Tentet blazes through eight protracted pieces on Group Therapy,
exponentially extending the vocabularies of arrangement,
composition and performance for large groups.
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