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HeroesRoger Kellaway, Bruce Forman, Dan Lutz
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Cotton Tail - [play]
52nd Street Theme - [play]
Hymn to Freedom - [play]Reviews
JazzImpov Magazine - "The result on Heroes is some irresistible music that - like Peterson's, Cole's and Tatum's - entertains and delights listeners, enveloping them in the music."
AllAboutJazz - Roger Kellaway could not be called a best kept secret. He's been active for over 40 years, performing with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Zoot Sims, Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, Barbra Streisand, and yes, Bobby Darin, the subject of the first two discs reviewed here. Kellaway's sprawling experience is reflected by his black-hole talent. His command of the entire history of piano styles is staggering and it's exhilarating to hear it all at once--and on these three recordings, the listener is treated to this exact experience... While Kellaway's Bobby Darin offerings are heads and shoulders above the vast majority of jazz piano discs, Heroes is his current piece de resistance. Roger Kellaway is a talent reaching zenith, hopefully a very long one.
CD HotList - The repertoire is familiar ("Cotton Tail," "Night Train," "Moten Swing," etc.) but the interaction between the three musicians is so joyfully energetic that it's like you're hearing the tunes for the first time. Note, in particular, Kellaway's brilliant arrangement of Thelonious Monk's "52nd Street Theme." For all jazz collections.
JazzTimes - Kellaway is a rare pianist with the technical command and historical knowledge to recreate a portion of Peterson's "power, clarity, musicality, and will to swing," all while sounding like himself.
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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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