John Vanore, Primary Colors | The Vinyl Anachronist

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Out of the blue, I’ve developed a fascination with the flugelhorn. I’ve even gone online  once of twice to shop for one. At my age I’ve thought about really trying to learn one more musical instrument–to date I’ve flirted with the violin, drums, saxophone, guitar, ukelele and clarinet but I never invested enough time to stick with any of them and become, well, adequately skilled. But there’s something about the flugelhorn that appeals to me, and John Vanore and his new album Primary Colors has only increased that desire to blow my own horn, so to speak. Primary Colors is a collection of duos John Vanore recorded with keyboardist Ron Thomas back in 1984-1985. If that makes you think about all that bright, digitized jazz recorded back then, rest assured that this is a beautiful and natural recording. The music itself can sound a little more typical of the times–Thomas, in particular, might have been listening to a lot of ’80s fusion jazz and sometimes extracts an odd, dated idea or two, but for the most part this recording features John Vanore and his sensitive touch with both the trumpet and the flugelhorn. Why am I so infatuated with flugelhorns […]

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