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Russ Meissner

David Ambrosio: Four On The Road

by Dan Bilawsky
September 17, 2018

On the surface it might not make much sense for a trio album to be dubbed Four On The Road, but there's a story behind that fuzzy math. In 2015, while on the road in Spain touring in support of his previous trio date, Gone (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2014), bassist David Ambrosio encountered the pixelated ...

David Ambrosio: Gone

by Dan Bilawsky
June 19, 2014

In many ways, bassist David Ambrosio can track his adult life and his musical relationships by his back-and-forth moves between Manhattan and Brooklyn. Ambrosio has called each borough home on more than one occasion over the past few decades, observing the key differences between each scene from the inside. He doesn't discriminate when it comes to ...

Matt Renzi: Rise And Shine

by Dan Bilawsky
February 10, 2014

Continuity and freshness, while theoretically at odds with one another, are the two things that tend to fuel group development in the arts. Only time can create bonds of trust and help to crystallize concepts and language shared between artists, but consistency can breed predictability. So how can an artist balance the scales, allowing their work ...

Monday Night Jazz Sessions @ Quinn’s In Beacon, NY Announces Its Schedule For 2014

December 16, 2013

The Monday night jazz sessions that began this past October at the new Beacon, NY venue Quinn's have been enormously well-received both by audiences (many of whom by no means jazz fans) and musicians, locally and worldwide. By showcasing some of the most acclaimed, uncompromising artists covering a very wide spectrum of the music in a ...

Matt Renzi: Happy Hour

by Dan McClenaghan
May 7, 2011

Reedman Matt Renzi's Happy Hour is curiously titled, given the music at hand. A “Happy Hour" brings cheap drinks and cacophonous good times in the bar room to mind. The CD of that name opens with a tranquil reverie, as mystical, inward-looking and spiritually directed as a late-period Impulse! John Coltrane rumination. The trio ...

Visceral

By Billy Lester

Label: Coppens Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: G Minor Jazz; You Go To My Head; Out of Nowhere; Too Marvelous For Words; Everything Happens To Me; Just Friends.