Results for "SKIP WILKINS"

Skip Wilkins

Skip Wilkins was born and raised in eastern Massachusetts. He grew up in a musical home and began listening to jazz at a very early age. His father played drums locally, so Skip was able to interact with professional musicians as a small child. He first found his way to the stage in kindergarten and has not left the stage since. In many ways his earliest experiences have proved the most enduring. He learned to love singing and listening to subtle harmonies before entering school, taking particular delight in the Great American songbook repertoire of such composers as Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin and others of the first half of the twentieth century

Dan Wilkins

Born: July 9, 1991

Composer and saxophonist, Dan Wilkins has a new self-titled album of original music out on the PM Records label, with Horizons Quartet. Wilkins, who grew up in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, went on to study saxophone at Manhattan School of Music in 2013, learning from teachers Steve Wilson, Rich Perry, Phil Markowitz and Garry Dial.

He now resides in Pennsylvania, where he educates and performs, both locally and internationally, often with his father Skip Wilkins. The pair have three albums out – 'Someday', released in 2019 on Deer Head Records, with bassist Tony Marino, and drummer Bill Goodwin; 'Czech Wishes,' also released in 2019 on New Port Line, recorded in the Czech Republic with a cast of young prominent Czech musicians; and 'Father and Son,' released on Steeplechase LookOut, featuring bassist Scott Lee and drummer Jeff Hirshfield.

Wilkins’ most recent project, Horizons Quartet, features a multigenerational cast with pianist/collaborator James Collins, alongside veteran bassist Gene Perla, and Philadelphian drum maestro Byron Landham

Czech Wishes

By Skip Wilkins

Label: New Port Line
Released: 2019
Track listing: Teacher; Munchkins of Karlovy Vary; On the Train; The Box-Checkers; Czech Wishes; Don’t Forget Me; In Search of Greener Grass; Reptiles; Wise One.

Skip Wilkins Quartet feat. Daniel Wilkins: Czech Wishes

by Troy Dostert
July 23, 2019

Although he's based in Eastern Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Lafayette College, pianist Skip Wilkins spends as much time as he can in the Czech Republic, the source of inspiration for his last two releases. Czech Dreams (New Port Line, 2013) and Czech Wishes, his current project, are not so much about crafting an Eastern European-tinged ...

Czech Dreams

By Skip Wilkins

Label: New Port Line
Released: 2013
Track listing: Musime; Haven't You...?; Nikdo Nevi; You Will Find It; Noci v Opere; Sasa and the Tale of the Freezy Queen; Vzhuru; Uvidime; Proc ne?; Didn't Say; Czech Dreams.

Skip Wilkins Quartet: Czech Dreams

by Edward Blanco
December 28, 2013

World-class jazz pianist Skip Wilkins regularly splits his time between Eastern Pennsylvania--where he teaches at Lafayette College in Easton--and Central Europe where he recently spent fifteen months in Prague. Czech Dreams, dedicated to the Czech people, is a result of touring throughout the Czech Republic and Germany and cementing his relationship with friend and Prague-based guitarist ...

Phil Woods & the Festival Orchestra: New Celebration

by Jack Bowers
November 21, 2013

Any album with the renowned Phil Woods leading a big band (or jazz orchestra) is cause for celebration, especially so when he has written all but one of the charts and takes the bulk of the alto solos. More than fifteen years have passed since Woods last recorded with the COTA Festival Orchestra from his home ...

Guitarist Mike Lorenz's "Of the Woods" Available Now!

January 23, 2012

Philadelphia guitarist Mike Lorenz has released his debut full-length CD, Of the Woods, available now on iTunes, CDBaby and BandCamp. Of the Woods highlights seven of Lorenz's original compositions performed in quartet and quintet setting and featuring pianist Matt Mitchell, alto saxophonist Mike Cemprola, bassist Brian Howell and drummer Matt Scarano. A CD release show is ...

Eleven Current 2011 Releases From Dreambox Media!

November 27, 2011

DMJ-1129 DENIS DiBLASIO / BRIAN BETZ Project: Flute / Guitar Denis DiBlasio's latest new release is another duo recording with guitarist Brian Betz, who this time around displays his rich acoustic guitar with DiBlasio exclusively on flute in an eight-tune program of all-original compositions. DMJ-1130 JORDAN BERGER's First Acoustic and electric bassist Jordan Berger's First comprises ...

The Paint-Peeler

By Skip Wilkins

Label: Dreambox Media
Released: 2009
Track listing: The Paint-Peeler; Who's Laughing? (A Father's Lament); Swiftly; December (As I Would Have It); Trappers in the Family; Standing in the Wind (For Daniel); Fabulous; Glow (For Fred Hersch); Bring the Sun (For Liz Drake).