ContemporaryJazz.com » rippingtons http://www.contemporaryjazz.com Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:18:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Ripps’ Jazz Cat Makes List http://www.contemporaryjazz.com/ripps-jazz-cat-makes-list/ http://www.contemporaryjazz.com/ripps-jazz-cat-makes-list/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 02:24:08 +0000 John Hilderbrand http://www.contemporaryjazz.com/?p=1707 Just put up a tweet on this: Rippingtons’ Modern Art cover makes Smashing Magazine’s list of 100 Obscure and Remarkable CD Covers. Congrats, Bill Mayer!

]]> http://www.contemporaryjazz.com/ripps-jazz-cat-makes-list/feed/ 0 Rippingtons Interview and Review http://www.contemporaryjazz.com/rippingtons-interview-and-review/ http://www.contemporaryjazz.com/rippingtons-interview-and-review/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:32:54 +0000 John Hilderbrand http://www.contemporaryjazz.com/?p=1653 Modern Art by the Rippingtons featuring Russ FreemanShannon West recently interviewed Rippingtons main man Russ Freeman at the SmoothViews site. Check out Freeman’s thoughts on composing, painting, balancing new songs with the classics when touring, what may be his favorite saxophone performance on a Rippingtons recording, and more. Shannon also reviewed the new Rippingtons recording Modern Art, saying “these are tight, short, melodic songs that give the musicians a lot of room to breathe and take some fascinating twists and turns along the way.”

I posted samples of two tracks from Modern Art last month. Check out that Try It Out Tuesdays post!

]]> http://www.contemporaryjazz.com/rippingtons-interview-and-review/feed/ 2 Try It Out Tuesdays – The Rippingtons http://www.contemporaryjazz.com/try-it-out-tuesdays-the-rippingtons/ http://www.contemporaryjazz.com/try-it-out-tuesdays-the-rippingtons/#comments Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:41:08 +0000 John Hilderbrand http://www.contemporaryjazz.com/?p=1538 Modern Art by the Rippingtons featuring Russ FreemanThe new Rippingtons recording, Modern Art, is out today. The Rippingtons is a Russ Freeman project that I very much enjoyed in the 80s and 90s. Freeman has kept it going for over 20 years with above-average pop-jazz compositions and a changing roster of musicians. Modern Art marks some changes in the group: a new bassist and no percussionist. Long-time Ripps saxman Jeff Kashiwa returns as a “special guest.”

Check out a couple of tracks from it (Windows Media Player required):

> Paris Groove
> Modern Art

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