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Steve Snyder

Introducing Prime Vintage

By Steve Snyder

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Legacy; Message from the Meters; Sharp Left; So Be; Fourth Sixth; Thank You; Those Two; So That’s What This Is About.

Prime Vintage: Introducing Prime Vintage

by Jack Bowers
October 27, 2023

Prime Vintage is an Indiana-based organ trio led by Steve Snyder and including guitarist Joel Tucker and drummer Kenny Phelps. Introducing Prime Vintage is the group's first recording, and a fine one it is. Seven of the album's eight engaging numbers are original compositions by Snyder; the other is Leo Nocentelli's funky “Message ...

Tony Bennett, Milt Hinton & Israel Tanenbaum

by Joe Dimino
August 6, 2023

The versatile and talented musician, composer & producer Israel Tanenbaum kicks off the 814th Episode of Neon Jazz with music from his release Impressions. From there, we hear more chartbound music with the likes of Steve Carrington, Anthony Hervey, Steve Snyder and the Terry Gibbs Legacy Band. An interesting project from guitarist Ryan Meagher called AftEarth ...

Michael Waldrop: Time Frames

by Dan Bilawsky
September 3, 2021

While percussionist Michael Waldrop's previous work under the umbrella of the Origin imprint was firmly set in the jazz camp, with a pair of big band bonanzas and a magnetic trio date to his name and credit, this set typically moves beyond those borders, often offering an intriguing world music slant on contemporary classical percussion. Highlighting ...

Walk the Walk

By Eric Siereveld

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: 1. The Last Innovator 2. Toughin' Up 3. Walk the Walk 4. Bewitched, Bothered, & Bewildered 5. Occam's Razor 6. B-Town Bop 7. The Other Side (of the Hudson) 8. Split-Finger

Eric Sierveld: Walk The Walk

by Friedrich Kunzmann
June 21, 2018

Eric Sierveld's debut outing with the newly formed Organic Quintet is, true to its name, an organ driven affair which shares many similarities with some of the most traditional organ-based endeavors of the past five decades. Even the smoky production values of soaring brass and organ walls clashing with cymbal crashes are present in this production ...

Eric Siereveld: Walk The Walk

by Jack Bowers
April 4, 2018

The “organic" in trumpeter Eric Siereveld's Organic Quintet doesn't mean the group has no artificial ingredients or synthetic preservatives; rather, it denotes the fact that the quintet's modus operandi rests in some measure on the well-defined tone colors produced by Steve Snyder's indispensable Hammon B3 organ. The word “indispensable" is used because it is Siereveld's purpose ...

Eric Sierveld's Organic Quintet: Walk The Walk

by Mike Jurkovic
April 4, 2018

After three years in Congressman Paul Ryan's home state, trumpeter Eric Sierveld returns home to NYC. The grand results is Walk The Walk, an escapade with the newly christened, no-fretting, tight strutting Organic Quintet. Percolating from start to finish, the Quintet--featuring Sierveld joined by Tony Barba on sax, Jonathan Kreisberg: guitar; Steve Snyder on ...

Michael Waldrop: Origin Suite

by Jack Bowers
February 5, 2018

Drummer / vibraphonist Michael Waldrop's intriguing Origin Suite (deftly arranged by Jack Cooper) sweeps away musical boundaries to make its points, one of which is that big-band jazz needn't be ensnared in a time warp but is capable of changing with the times to engender songs that are as aesthetically pleasing as they are thematically stylish. ...