Richard Cole - Shade - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Cole is from the school of modern, progressive jazz. On such cuts as InchFree Time,Inch one hears the influence of Sonny Rollins with his hard bop and unique thematic improvisations, as well as the hard-driving free jazz idioms employed by the likes of Archie Shepp and Pharoah Sanders. Along with friends from the NY jazz scene - Randy Brecker, Joey Calderazzo, Adam Nussbaum and others, Cole has created a dynamic, swinging, recording for our times. Originally released in 2001.

This jazz is human, detailed, full of love and passion. And it is as personal as it is virtuosic, maybe the highest compliment one can pay a jazz recording. It is impossible to over-recommend Richard Cole's a Glance Back.Inch -Earshot Jazz. Originally released 1998.

Seattle-based Richard Cole's Inner Mission further solidifies his position among the important voices on the tenor saxophone. Once again utilizing the talents of long time-friend and trumpet giant, Randy Brecker, Cole leads his group through a maze of deconstructed Jazz & Pop standards, as well as several thought-provoking originals. InchCome TogetherInch gets a dark and smokey treatment, while Cole and pianist Bill Anschell's co-written InchBlame It on My ReedInch sets the band into a burning spiral of rhythm changes. InchThe brazen display of emotional range emanating from the man's horn is overwhelming... a sonic delight from start to finish.Inch -John Barron, All About Jazz.