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Pianist/composer Skip Wilkins is featured on Skip Wilkins Solo, his third Dreambox Media Release (DMJ-1109). Recorded live in concert at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, Wilkins presents a program of his own compositions as well as pieces by Hoagy Carmichael, George Gershwin, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and others. Critics have priased Wilkins' range-- "Wilkins goes from soulful, gut-bucket mode to rich ballads to angular modern jazz..." (Philadelphia Inquirer), his technique -- "Wilkins has some of the best hands/fingers you've ever heard on a keyboard" (Improvijazzation), and his reach-- "Wilkins is an inventive, subtle pianist...[his] music has an edge; he's searching for, and more often than not finding, his own voice, which is really what jazz is all about..." (Allentown Morning Call).
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Pianist/composer Skip Wilkins and his superb quintet captured another set of original compositions in their second CD Volume II (Dreambox Media DMJ-1104). The CD was recorded at the same time as their critically acclaimed 2006 release Volume I (Dreambox Media DMJ-1101) in a live remote recording at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, from the main stage of the Williams Center for the Arts. Skip is again joined by Paul Kendall (tenor saxophone), Tom Kozic (guitars), Tony Marino (bass) and Gary Rissmiller (drums), in Volume II of Skip WIlkins Quintet, on the Dreambox Media label of Philadelphia.
Look for their third release in August 2008.
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