Results for "Matt Blostein"

Matt Blostein

Kenny Shanker: Action City

by Bruce Lindsay
October 24, 2014

Saxophonist Kenny Shanker was eight years post-graduation before recording his debut album, Steppin' Up, which took another two years to get its 2011 release on Posi-tone records. So admirers of the New York based musician could be forgiven for not expecting album number two quite so soon. But here it is, Action City: released just 17 ...

Paraphrase

By Matt Blostein

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011
Track listing: 01. Paraphrase (Blostein); 02. One Hour (Sperrazza); 03. Helicopters (Blostein); 04. TJ (Sperrazza); 05. Ripple (Blostein); 06. Bullfrog (Blostein); 07. Duet Aria (Sperrazza); 08. Let Your Arms Fall Down (Sperrazza).

Matt Blostein - Vinnie Sperrazza Band: Paraphrase

by AAJ Italy Staff
June 30, 2011

Così come si dividono la leadership del quartetto, altrettanto democraticamente contribuiscono con quattro brani a testa alla realizzazione di Paraphrase. Uno, Matt Blostein, suona il sax contralto, l'altro, Vinnie Sperrazza, si destreggia alla batteria ed insieme a Jacob Garchick, trombone, e Geoff Kraly, basso elettrico, formano una band che, pressoché sconosciuta dalle nostre parti, vanta un ...

Matt Blostein, Vinnie Sperrazza and Their Second, "Paraphrase"

March 15, 2011

Music changes over time. What was mainstream in jazz circa 1965 is more retro now, 46 years later. So Al Cohn and Zoot Sims are long gone, their music still great, but people coming up with that take on the jazz sound are really not mainstream anymore; they are revivalists. So what then IS mainstream? Perhaps ...