Downbeat Reviews Rob Schneiderman’s “Tone Twister”
Tone Twister
All About Jazz Reviews Rob Schneiderman’s “Tone Twister”
Geannine Reid, All About Jazz Pianist and composer Rob Schneiderman has returned after a hiatus of over a decade, released in September on Tone Twister, we find him leading a swinging quintet. The lineup is; tenor saxophonist Ralph Moore, bassist Gerald Cannon, drummer Pete Van Nostrand, and trumpeter Brian Lynch, who produced the album. The … Read More
Jazz Weekly Features Rob Schneiderman’s “Tone Twister” and Jared Hall’s “Hallways”
George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly Trends come and go; just give me the hard bop or post bop quintet, and I’m set for the day. Here are a couple perfect examples. Pianist Rob Schneiderman teams up with the strong team of Brian Lynch/tp, Ralph Moore/ts, Gerald Cannon/b and Pete Van Nostrand for a collection of … Read More
Bird is the Worm Features Rob Schneiderman’s “Tone Twister”
Dave Sumner, Bird is the Worm On a modern jazz landscape where the music can come off as alien to the sound of jazz in its heyday, this pleasant straight-ahead session from pianist Rob Schneiderman will ring familiar. It benefits greatly from the contributions of trumpeter Brian Lynch, who increasingly becomes remindful of classic Donald Byrd and … Read More
Gapplegate Music Reviews Reviews Rob Schneiderman’s “Tone Twister”
Gregory Applegate Edwards, Gapplegate Music Reviews Jazz, excellent jazz can still be found. You may not be able to comb the stacks of a trusted record store this day and unearth something that causes you to try out an unknown possibility. Yet we still can take a chance and open up another set of fine … Read More
Acquarian Weekly Reviews Rob Schneiderman’s “Tone Twister”
Mike Greenblatt, Acquarian Weekly For his first new studio effort in over a decade, pianist/composer/mathematician Rob Schneiderman has taken on the role as a Tone Twister (Hollistic Musicworks). Backed by a terrific front line of Brian Lynch on trumpet and RalphMoore on tenor saxophone, augmented by drummer Peter van Nostrand and bassist Gerald Cannon, Schneiderman … Read More
Musical Memoirs’s Blog Reviews Rob Schneiderman’s “Tone Twister”
Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs’s Blog Here is a CD full of compositional diversity. Schneiderman is a prolific songwriter and presents a variety of arrangements that range from Smooth Jazz Funk on “Left Coast Lullaby” to the Latin fused “Footloose Freestyle”. He offers mellow ballads like the standard, “Unforgettable,” to “Distant Memory,” a Straight Ahead … Read More
Midwest Record Reviews Rob Schneiderman’s “Tone Twister”
Chris Spector, Midwest Record So, when is a math genius not a math genius? I don’t know, that just seemed like a good lede. Math genius Schneiderman, who plays like anything but an egghead but uses math in an obvious musical way, serves up his first date in a decade with a smoking jazzbo crew … Read More