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Winner of the prestigious National Jazz Awards', "Best Trombonist of 2007".
Two-time nominee (for Best Album and Best Trombonist).
"Russ Little's --- virtuoso performance on the albums Snapshot and Footwork could not be denied."......
-J.D. Considine writing in the Toronto Globe and Mail, April, 2007.
Geoff Chapman, National Jazz Critic for the Toronto Star, has declared Russ Little's latest release, "Footwork", to be
"one of the Top 10 Best Albums of 2006".
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On The Shoulders Of Giants
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"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
Sir Isaac Newton,
February 5th, 1675
Track Listings:
1. Cottontail Listen
2. Along Came Betty Listen
3. Friday Night At The Cadillac Club Listen
4. Star Crossed Lovers Listen
5. Sister Sadie Listen
6. Memories Of You Listen
7. I Remember Clifford Listen
8. Django Listen
9. Blue Monk Listen
10. Song For My Father Listen
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Footwork
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For all its acknowledged nobility and sonorous power, the
Trombone, by its very nature, lends itself to neither fleetness
nor effortless grace, which is why we all spend many long and lonely hours of intense and unremitting practise hoping to achieve the necessary - "Footwork".
Track Listings:
1. Footwork Listen
2. The Boy Next Door Listen
3. Midnight Sun Listen
4. Nikki's Grin Listen
Russ Little - Trombone(First Solo)
Slide Hampton - Trombone(Second Solo)
5. Four Brothers Listen
6. Six Inch Spike Listen
7. Peace Listen
8. She Listen
9. Up Jumped Spring Listen
10. Things Ain't What They Used To Be Listen
Slide Hampton - Trombone(First Solo)
Russ Little - Trombone(Second Solo)
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"In Russ Little's hands, the trombone transforms into a musical magic lamp
capable of granting anything your heart desires."
-Frank Nakashima, Whole Note Magazine --- February, 2007.
"Uncanny precision --- Extremely versatile"
-Frank Nakashima, Whole Note Magazine --- February, 2007.
"...a rollicking frolic."
-The Toronto Star, 2006
"...this seriously talented leader explores sound possibilities and different stylistic approaches."
-The Toronto Star, 2006
"...charges into bluesy territory inhabited in earlier days by Horace Silver."
-The Toronto Star, 2006
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Snapshot
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We chose Snapshot as the name for this collection of song
recordings because, like every family album snapshot, this CD
captures and preserves a particular moment in time -- a kind
of sonic photograph of my style of playing jazz trombone,
circa 2004-2005.
Track Listings:
1. Undecided Listen
2. My One And Only Love Listen
3. Where Can I Go Without You? Listen
4. Cold Duck Time Listen
5. Out On A Limb Listen
6. A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square Listen
7. Autumn In New York Listen
8. Smile Please Listen
9. Little Prince Listen
10. More Than You Know Listen
11. Exactly Like You Listen
12. One Note Samba Listen |
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"What a marvelous record this is, a spellbinder from start to finish..."
-Geoff Chapman, National Jazz Critic for the Toronto Star, August 4th, 2005
"No matter how virtuosic his solos get, what comes across most strongly
is the clarity of his melodic ideas."
-J.D. Considine, Toronto Globe & Mail
"It's seldom obvious that what he's doing is spectacularly difficult."
-J.D. Considine, Toronto Globe & Mail
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