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Mike Longo and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble

Mike Longo and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble: Live from New York!

by Jack Bowers
January 7, 2014

The fourth album by pianist Mike Longo's stalwart New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble is the first one recorded in front of an audience, in May 2013 at the New York City Baha'i Center's John Birks Gillespie Auditorium. On the one hand, Live from New York! offers the kind of spontaneity and high spirits ...

Mike Longo and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble: Live From New York!

by Dan Bilawsky
December 28, 2013

When trumpet titan Dizzy Gillespie left this earth he left no shortage of disciples behind. His now-legendary peers (i.e. saxophonists Jimmy Heath and Benny Golson), a cadre of killer Cubans (Arturo Sandoval, multi-reedist Paquito D'Rivera, pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, etc.) and a pride of young lions all worked with him, learned from him, and sang his praises, ...

Mike Longo and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble: Oasis

by Jack Bowers
October 14, 2004

Having ignited an Explosion and braved the Aftermath on their first two albums, composer/arranger/pianist Mike Longo and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble offer the listener an Oasis on the third, a sanctuary that is perhaps a touch more temperate and peaceful but nevertheless houses an ample reserve of pugnacity and power. Longo, ...

Aftermath

By Mike Longo and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble

Label: CAP
Released: 2001
Track listing: Urban Jungle; Naima; Moody

Mike Longo and the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble: Aftermath

by Jack Bowers
August 1, 2001

As last year’s debut album by pianist Mike Long’s NYSAJE was labeled Explosion, it’s entirely appropriate that its second enterprise should be dubbed Aftermath. One should not be lulled, however, into believing that the aftermath is somehow less dynamic than the explosion itself. This aftermath packs a devastating wallop of its own, orchestrated by Longo and ...