Results for "Greg Ritchie"

Greg Ritchie

Francois Bourassa Quartet: Number 9

by Neri Pollastri
June 13, 2019

Number 9 è il titolo del nono album a proprio nome del pianista e band leader di Montreal Francois Bourassa, alla testa del suo classico quartetto, ormai attivo da oltre diciotto anni, che lo vede a fianco del multistrumentista André Leroux, del contrabbassista Guy Boisvert e del batterista Greg Ritchie. La formazione propone un ...

Ordinary Lives

By Aaron Irwin

Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: A Winning Smile (For the Champions); The Traveler; Song For Nilsson; Ordinary Lives; Fevered Dream; Holy Roller; Big Blue World; Lost In The Wind; Billions and Billions; Say Goodbye.

Xavier Casellas NY Quintet @ Zinc Bar In New York City

December 20, 2012

XAVIER CASELLAS NY QUINTET (Presenting “Unguarded Smiles") Xavier Casellas, voice & lyrics Emlio Solla, piano & arrangements Nate Radley, guitar Edward Perez, double bass Greg Ritchie, drums “Catalan jazz vocalist Xavier Casellas, after a first album as leader that took him to present it at 38th ...

Ottawa Jazz Festival, Days 1-3: June 21-23, 2012

by John Kelman
June 27, 2012

Days 1-3 | Days 4-8 TD Ottawa International Jazz FestivalOttawa, CanadaJune 21-Jul 1, 2012After a paradigm shift in 2011--deserting its largely “pure" approach to programming for one that acknowledged how, in order for it to survive, it needed to (a) attract a larger percentage from the youth demographic, and ...

Curtis Macdonald: Community Immunity

by Dan Bilawsky
June 18, 2011

"The Jazz Community" is a phrase that shows up in more than a few album reviews, but what does it really mean? Like-minded jazz musicians certainly gravitate toward one another, but they don't live in some massive, hippie-like commune where people play John Coltrane and Charlie Parker licks ad infinitum and bow down in front of ...

Take Five With Lars Dietrich

by Lars Dietrich
April 13, 2011

Meet Lars Dietrich: Born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Lars was introduced to the saxophone at the age of 10. After performing a duo TV show with famed jazz pianist Herbie Hancock, Dietrich decided to pursue a career in music. At the age of fifteen he got accepted to study saxophone at the Conservatory of Amsterdam. In 2005 ...

The Story

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2009