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Everything I LoveRoland Hanna
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DownBeat - Five Stars (a "masterpiece")
Where Y'at, New Orleans entertainment monthly:
"The recently departed jazz pianist Roland Hanna left a legacy of some of the most exquisite music ever heard. He was first choice for many of the greatest jazz vocalists including the divine Sarah Vaughan and was equally respected by no less a task-master than Charles Mingus. Solo recordings are especially challenging to pull off, but Hanna handled the task with ease and comfort, relying on his chops and his impeccable taste. Everything I Love is a stunningly beautiful solo recording that finds Hanna at the peak of his powers. You can hear the history of the music shining through his fingertips. The feeling for the blues, the Tatumesque touches, the joy and soulfulness, as well as supreme sense of grace evidenced throughout. For these final sessions Hanna sat at the piano and commenced to recording Everything I Love. Apparently, there was enough material recorded to release a series, of which this is the first. Hanna's interpretations of "I Hear A Rhapsody," "In The Blue of The Evening," "Embraceable You" and "Send In The Clowns" amply display his disarming sensitivity and reveal his heart and soul in a way that is quite rare and beautiful. Everything I Love sparkles like a radiant jewel."
One of only four 2003 releases to receive DownBeat's rare five star designation, "Everything I Love" is one of the finest jazz solo piano albums ever recorded. Many connoisseurs believe that Roland Hanna was the greatest jazz piano soloist since Art Tatum, and the playing on this album is unsurpassed in its inventiveness, beauty and style.
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Roger Kellaway & Eddie Daniels
(From BillBoard review of latest IPO release)
Clarinetist Eddie Daniels and pianist Roger Kellaway have been both revered and sublimated by critics and listeners during their long and sometimes obscured careers. Make no mistake, though -- they are great musicians who somehow do not get the credit they deserve as true jazz masters. When Daniels has played more commercially oriented music, he's branded a sellout, while Kellaway's profile is so low-key, he's practically off the radar except when releasing a recording. Fact is, Daniels is as limber, facile, tuneful, and literate as any clarinet player on the contemporary scene, while Kellaway's understated brilliance is balanced by a sense of wonder and empowerment tempered by a veteran's common sense and deep wisdom. Both have made important strides in recent years to change minds and hearts with several very fine efforts in the modern mainstream idiom, but these duets recorded live at the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles have to be a high watermark for them, individually and together... This is a wondrous duet date featuring extraordinary musicians taking chances and thankfully succeeding on all levels, not the least of which are in the enviable elements of pace, placement, and depth.
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