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This week I’m reviewing two digital-only releases. You can find them on AppleMusic, Spotify and various other streaming services, and I’m including the Bandcamp links as well.
Adler/Yarranton – Double Exposure
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(Independent, 2021)
https://percynilsadler.bandcamp.com/album/double-exposure
Full disclosure again: Blair Yarranton and I have been friends for over 20 years and have played together in various bands (including the Commodores Orchestra). He’s a remarkable trumpet and flugelhorn player who devotes countless hours to constantly evolving his playing. His flugelhorn tone is warm and round, inspired by Guido Basso, but in this modern duo setting his trumpet sounds are other-worldly. For years now Blair has been experimenting with playing his trumpet through a collection of effects pedals that most people associate with the electric guitar. There are delays, reverbs, poly-octave generators, distortions and more.
Adler and Yarranton are like a pair of mad scientist musical architects
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Adler and Yarranton are like a pair of mad scientist musical architects
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By Adam Feibel Humber College
Denny Christianson, the jazz musician and educator who appeared on more than 250 albums and inspired generations of Canadian jazz students along the way through his work at Humber College, has died at the age of 78.
Rising to prominence as the leader of the 18-piece Denny Christianson Big Band in Montreal in 1981, Christianson was a widely acclaimed trumpeter, flugelhornist, arranger, composer, conductor and bandleader with a career that lasted several decades.
In 2001, Christianson became the director of music studies at Humber College in Toronto, where he made a lasting impression on the past, present and future of jazz in Canada. He retired in 2018.