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Joe Negri

In 1999, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust honored me by naming me the "Established Artist of the Year." I remember telling them that my career has been a "work in progress" since age three. As a child performer, I performed on radio and appeared in theatrical and stage productions throughout the tri-state area. I was even chosen to become one of Pittsburgh's "Stars of Tomorrow." A voice change shattered my confidence and I stopped performing. Shortly after, I began to seriously study the guitar. By age sixteen, I was playing well enough to win a job with one of the country's top swing bands. I soon became a featured member of the band and traveled nationally with them for about two years

Joe Negri: Guitars for XMAS

December 12, 2020

It's that time of year again, when I introduce you to the newest member of the JazzWax Vintage Holiday Album Hall of Fame. This is the Hall's 13th season. Just think, kids who were born the year I started this feature are now getting their braces removed. Time flies. My choice this year is guitarist Joe ...

Pittsburgh Celebrates the Guitar with "Four on Six" at Alphabet City

by Mackenzie Horne
May 31, 2019

For countless bluesmen, rockers, and bossa players, the guitar is the path to jazz; that trail was blazed as early as the 1920s by practitioners such as Eddie Durham, Eddie Lang, Django Reinhardt, and Charlie Christian. For Pittsburgh guitarist Mark Strickland, it was Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue (Blue Note, 1963) that first sparked his interest in ...

Tony DePaolis: The Contemporary Dynamic

by Mackenzie Horne
February 13, 2019

Take everything you know about what a debut record should and should not be. Now promptly throw those ideas into oncoming traffic and don't look back. Young Pittsburgh bassist Tony DePaolis has redefined the boundaries of the all-important debut record with The Contemporary Dynamic. It's a concept album. It's a double album. ...

Take Five With Jacques Lesure

by Jacques Lesure
July 20, 2013

Meet Jacques Lesure:Jacques Lesure is a Detroit native who has graduated from Berklee College Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Since his days at Berklee, he has performed alongside Oscar Brown Jr., George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Freddy Cole, Jimmy Smith, Stanley Turrentine, Mark Murphy, Oliver Lake, Chico Freeman, Javon Jackson, Les McCann, Linda Hopkins, Carmen Lundy, ...

Newport Jazz Festival 2011, 4-7 de agosto

by Joan A. Cararach
August 16, 2011

Newport Jazz FestivalDel 4 al 7 de agosto, 2011Newport, Rhode Island, Estados Unidos Prólogo: como Moisés en Fort Adams (y cantando con Pete Seeger) Un carrito de golf se detiene en la entrada del túnel que lleva del llamado escenario Quad al Harbor Stage. Chubasqueros y paraguas se detienen ante ...

Dream Dancing

By Joe Negri

Label: Noteworthy Jazz
Released: 2010
Track listing: I Never Knew; Dream Dancing; You Are All; The Girl Next Door; The Johnny Mandel Medley; La Verne Walk; You've Changed; Darn That Dream; The Touch of Your Lips.

Joe Negri: Dream Dancing

by Jack Huntley
August 5, 2010

Veteran guitarist Joe Negri has nothing to prove to anyone. He's been a professional musician since the late '40s, played with a wide variety of musicians in countless musical settings, taught crops of aspiring musicians through his university positions, worked as a musical director and on-air performer for television, and weathered the ups and downs of ...

Joe Negri's Jazz "Mass" Gives Range To Its Message

September 26, 2008

Joe Negri's performance with his trio and the newly formed Saint Vincent Jazz Choir on Saturday was a match made in heaven. Sort of. The music was an hour-long performance of “Mass of Hope: The Mass in the Jazz Idiom," which Mr. Negri, of Scott, wrote years ago and continued to develop into an entire performance ...

Guitars For Christmas

By Joe Negri

Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2007
Track listing: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town; Christmas Time Is Here; We Three Kings Of Orient Are; We Wish You A Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays; Jingle Bells; Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas; The Christmas Song; Away In A Manger; Joy; Silver Bells; I Wonder As I Wander; In The Happy Long Ago; Winter Wonderland; I'll Be Home For Christmas; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; The Secret Of Christmas; Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle (You Descend From The Stars); Angels We Have Heard On High; Silent Night.