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Bob Mintzer
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"Playing music is a life long commitment. There are always new things to consider and develop. I'm exhilarated and humbled by music on a daily basis, and plan to continue on this path until my last day on earth." These words pretty much sums up Bob Mintzer's approach to music. Bob leads several musical lives that, at times, seem humanly impossible for one person to sustain. He is a 20 year member of the Grammy award winning Yellowjackets, leads his own Grammy winning big band, is the recipient of the Buzz McCoy endowed chair of jazz studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, does workshops all over the world, writes books on jazz, writes for orchestra, concert band, and big band, travels with his own quartet, and plays with numerous other bands around the globe
Introducing Saxophonist Olivia Hughart
by Sanford Josephson
This article previously appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. Growing up in Lower Merion, PA, a jny: Philadelphia suburb, Olivia Hughart started playing jazz saxophone in middle school. My parents were big music lovers," she recalled. We were listening to music all the time. They're huge Yellowjackets fans, so we'd always listen to Bob Mintzer ...
Randy Bernsen: Heart Mind and Soul
by Geannine Reid
Randy Bernsen, a guitarist, and composer whose roots trace back to Needham, Massachusetts before embedding himself in the vibrant musical scene of South Florida, has long been a figure within the jazz and fusion communities. His journey began with early collaborations with Jaco Pastorius and has evolved into a rich solo career that spans over three ...
Leni Stern: The Twenty Year Audition
by Jim Worsley
Composer and musician Leni Stern has big news to share. She chose to do so quietly, with her usual cool, low-key and savoir-faire charm. In conversation with only my wife and I, recently at a jazz club in Los Angeles, she left us elated with the kind of news most other artists would be screaming from ...
The Dave Stryker Trio with Bob Mintzer: Groove Street
by Pierre Giroux
The Dave Stryker Trio with tenor saxophonist Bob Mintzer is a captivating musical escapade. This collaboration not only showcases the talents of the two principals but also the two accompanying players, organist Jared Gold and drummer McClenty Hunter. Right from the initial notes of the opening track Groove Street," a Dave Stryker ...
Yellowjackets al Roma Jazz Festival 2023
by Mario Calvitti
Yellowjackets Auditorium Parco della Musica Roma Jazz Festival 2023 Roma 12.11.2023 Gli Yellowjackets sono uno dei gruppi di fusion più longevi ancora in attività sulla scena internazionale che calcano da ben 43 anni, come sottolinea con una punta d'orgoglio il sassofonista Bob Mintzer durante la presentazione del gruppo. Il ...
Groove Street
By Dave Stryker
Label: Strikezone Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Groove Street; Overlap; Summit; Infant Eyes; Soulstice; Cold Duck Time; Code Blue; The More I
See You; Straight Ahead.
The Dave Stryker Trio: Groove Street
by Jack Bowers
Guitarist Dave Stryker's latest album, Groove Street, is in fact The Dave Stryker Trio with Bob Mintzer," a combination that is a sure bet to enhance its merit and heighten its import--a sentiment that is equally true when applied to any album on which the acclaimed tenor saxophonist sits in. Stryker and Mintzer ...
Marco Postacchini Big Band: One Finger Snap
by Angelo Leonardi
Radicata nella tradizione del mainstream orchestrale (quella di Count Basie, Gerald Wilson e Thad Jones in particolare) la big band di Marco Postacchini è un'ottima Swing Machine" che presenta in questo disco un variegato repertorio che spazia da composizioni di Herbie Hancock ("One Finger Snap") a Steve Swallow ("Eiderdown"), si tinge di colori latini (Antonio Carlos ...
Quincy Jones, Claire Daly, Bob Mintzer & Nanny Assis
by Joe Dimino
Off a long-awaited album by one of the most ebullient cats in jazz, we start the 817th Episode of Neon Jazz with a track from Nanny Assis's Rovanio. From there, we remain in a bossa nova groove with Quincy Jones before we delve into a trove of new tunes from the likes of Ethan Cohn, Michael ...