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Al Ashley:
These Are Them
Label Jazzand 1001
recorded September 2001 in Pittsburgh, PA/USA
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Credits
Al Ashley drums
David Liebman sax
Rick Stone guitar
Oliver von Essen organ, piano

 

Track List
01: Blue Note
02: These Are Them
03: Perfect Day
04: The Other Time
05: Relative Minority
06: Fats Write
07: Look At What We Do To Ourselves

 

Review
The dirty organ sound of the young Oliver von Essen is remarkable. Al Ashley has chosen well: Oliver is an excellent organ player, not stuck to certain styles, but creating his very own way of producing an organ sound which fully integrates itself into the sax playing of David Liebman.
 
Ashley's quartet provides 7 tunes, all of them composed by members of the band, one as comfortable to listen to as the next. We should hear more of this quartet - and for all of Oliver.
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