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Barrett's strong tone and fine sense of melody are put to excellent use on this vibrant set. With guests Kenny Garrett, Aaron Goldberg and Jimmy Greene, Barrett runs through a batch of fine original tunes and a couple of lovely covers. His take on Steve Allen's "Impossible"...

Darren is perhaps best-known as the actor who played Moondoggie in the original #Gidget, and more recently the character of Vic Fontaine in #Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Concurrently with his acting career, he spent the '70s doing nightclubs in Vegas, Reno, and Tahoe and fairs around the...

Acknowledging that he couldn't roll all of his jazz, rock, country, and blues influences into his high-spirited acoustic guitar debut Sun Song, Tony Darren emerges with a style that is not as jazz intensive as Metheny's, yet snappy along the light funk lines of Benson's trademark

This funky Colorado-based saxman made some huge behind the scenes contributions to the smooth jazz genre prior to recording this picture-perfect breakout date that features key contributions by genre stars Wayman Tisdale, Jeff Lorber and Dave Koz. In addition to playing dates as a sideman with...

For anyone who listened to Darren Barrett's first two albums, Attack of Wren will come as a surprise, if not a shock. This isn't a bad thing. Barrett cut both First One Up and Deelings in the hard bop/post-bop mode, sometimes resembling the old Blue Note sound. On Attack of Wren, he...

During a career that's stretched for more than 40 years, James Darren has touched many of the bases in the entertainment game. He started in the 1950s when he was a teenage idol of the big screen, and then moved on to appearances on any number of TV shows over the ensuing years. One of the...

You don't have to be signed to Blue Note to embrace a Blue Note type of sound. Take Darren Barrett, for example. Deelings, the trumpeter's second album as a leader, was recorded for the Cincinnati-based J Curve label, not Blue Note. But it is impossible to listen to this post-bop/hard...