Name: Five *
Brand: Criss Cross Jazz
SKU: 1487056
Price: 23.86 SGD
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Five *

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Personnel: Ralph Bowen (tenor saxophone); Peter Bernstein (guitar); John Swana (trumpet); Sam Yahel (organ); Dana Hall (drums).
Audio Mixer: Max Bolleman.
Liner Note Author: C. Andrew Hovan.
Recording information: Systems Two Studios, Brooklyn, NY (10/20/2007).
Photographer: Gildas Bocl‚.
A member of Out of the Blue in the 1980s and an oft-employed freelancer in the `90s, Canada-born saxophonist Ralph Bowen has been steadily blazing his own path through the mainstream jazz scene. With FIVE, Bowen continues his reinvigoration of the jazz organ group sound, with leanings not toward classic soul-jazz (Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff) but rather towards the more adventurous end of the spectrum (Larry Young), namely hard bop with tinges of fusion. Bowen's combo, including ultra-modern organ ace Sam Yahel and guitarist Peter Bernstein, burns brightly and intelligently throughout.