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Dave Hanson

Blues Sky

By Dave Hanson

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Two Masters; Across That Bridge; June 16th; Ambrosian; Arnhem; As It Was and Is; Blues Sky; Cross Steps; Dylan Dream; Muse Walk.

Dave Hanson: Blues Sky

by Dan McClenaghan
March 25, 2025

Pianist Dave Hanson opens his Blue Sky with a joyful barnburner, “Two Masters," a tip of the hat to Bill Evans and Chick Corea, two of the biggest names in piano jazz. Hanson is probably best known for his work as composer-arranger and co-leader of Denver's H2 Big Band, but he pares things down on his ...

Two Masters

March 26, 2025

Album: Blues Sky
By Dave Hanson
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 05:10

H2 Big Band: It Could Happen

by Nicholas F. Mondello
July 9, 2015

From one perspective, It Could Happen is a teaser title for this big band recording. Sure, it's a perseveration of one of the scrumptious cuts on this cake. However, like a fine Le Cordon Bleu recipe, if you heap eleven exceptionally well-written GAS and original selections into the pot and set great charts before some of ...

H2 Big Band: It Could Happen

by Jack Bowers
February 20, 2015

As Shakespeare wrote, “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Who would dare argue with that? The point is that It Could Happen,the second recording by the H2 Big Band, is performed by a world-class ensemble. It's just not the H2 Big Band, which essentially remained home in Colorado ...