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David Ricard Big Band

Parallels

By David Ricard Big Band

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Released: 2018
Track listing: Spider-Man; Wandering Waltz; The Big To Do List; Come Out Swingin’; Sarah’s Theme; Pass the Peas; The Odd Couple; Stick Shift; Too Much!; Note-ably Pink; Pure Imagination; Pretty Memory; Sriracha Cha; Riverside Park.

David Ricard Big Band: Parallels

by Jack Bowers
August 8, 2018

Whatever else the fates may decree, fortune must be smiling when one can open a big-band album with the workaday theme from “Spider-Man" and make it shine. Bassist David Ricard is fortune's beneficiary here, as are those partisans who are lucky enough to chance upon Parallels, Ricard's third and most recent treatise on big-band excellence. Whereas ...

David Ricard Big Band: Holiday Swingin'

by Jack Bowers
November 27, 2015

Much like last year's Holidays with a Bang!, bassist David Ricard's new big-band album, Holiday Swingin,' does precisely that, seldom pausing for a deep breath while charging through a litany of fourteen seasonal themes both old and new. If much of it seems vaguely familiar, that could be because Ricard has recycled no fewer than nine ...

David Ricard Big Band: Holidays with a Bang!

by Jack Bowers
November 14, 2014

Bang! is an apt description of David Ricard's approach to big-band endeavors in general and holiday music in particular. The bassist / arranger's talented ensemble comes out swinging hard on Holidays with a Bang! and keeps its collective foot on the accelerator throughout this charming laundry list of well-worn seasonal favorites given a fresh new appearance ...