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Title: Scrapper
Condition: New
Description: EDITORIAL REVIEWS
The Scrapper, John Sneider's first album released under his own name in 20 years, finds him re-united with his original band. He's among friends, doing what he loves: swinging. A lot can change in 20 years, but some things remain constant. For John Sneider, that includes the rhythm section of Larry Goldings on organ, Andy Watson on drums and John Hart on guitar, all of whom appeared on his first record. A long time leader of his own groups, Sneider has performed with Max Roach, Curtis Fuller, The Mingus Big Band, The Frank Foster All-Star Big Band, Clark Terry, Cab Calloway, Andy Bey, Brad Mehldau, and Larry Goldings. Sneider also composes and arranges music for television and radio commercials.
REVIEW
In the same way a plethora of Canadian jazz fails to reach our neighbours to the south, there are also many American artists that we are not exposed to here. This is why I was delighted to see trumpeter and composer John Sneider's first release under his own name in over 20 years appear on the Canadian Cellar Live label. Sneider's album The Scrapper fits in perfectly with Cellar Live's usual programming, which hosts artists from both sides of the border who play ''timeless, swinging, heartfelt and resonant'' music, as their website states.
The core members of Sneider's band remain the same as on his last release Panorama from 2000: John Hart on guitar, Larry Goldings on organ and Andy Watson on drums. It is the shared influences among these veterans of the New York City scene that give the group its contemporary yet grounded sound. The tracks on the album are a unified flow of originals by Sneider and Goldings, small-group arrangements of two Duke Ellington pieces, and tracks that feature its guest artists: vocalist Andy Bey and young trumpeter David Sneider. Bey contributes a conversational rendition of Miles Davis' classic Solar, and Sneider demonstrates he shares his father's mature yet playful compositional style on the two-trumpet closer Dinosaur Eggs. Overall, The Scrapper is an excellent release that pays homage to the tradition while still sounding current in 2020.
Sam Dickinson, The Whole Note Magazine
It might be the trumpeters first record in 20 years but the personnel is the same as it was on his first record, and there's no dust on anyone. A hip player that's opted for the studio tan over the years shows that he's one of the few that doesn't need the feedback of a live audience to keep his chops sharp. A tasty mainstream date with an edge. Playing with a sure hand and a talented lips, if you haven't met the Scrapper yet, it's time to get hip to what all the hipper New Yorkers already know---he's got it on the ball and hits it out of the park. Well done.
Chris Spector --Midwest Record review 2/8/2020
Artist: JOHN SNEIDER
Country/Region of Manufacture: Canada
EAN: 0875531017014
Format: CD
Genre: Jazz
No Of Discs: 1
Record Label: Cellar Live
Release Date: 2020
Release Year: 2020
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