Jazz Articles about Luke Marantz

About Luke Marantz

Instrument: Piano

Album Review

A recipient of numerous awards and honors, Finnish guitarist Olli Hirvonen relocated to New York in 2011 where he attended the prestigious Manhattan School of Music. And on his maiden album for this label, the artist craftily fuses punk jazz, modern jazz, jazz fusion and noise music into a well-rounded, and sometimes psyched out presentation, highlighting his compositional scope and tenacious penchant for generating lofty concentrations of excitement. Hirvonen is a marksman via his intense phrasings and distortion-laced ...

Album Review

Ro Sham Beaux: Ro Sham Beaux

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 24, 2012

Dietro una sigla enigmatica e curiosa come Ro Sham Beaux si celano quattro studenti del New England Conservatory che al termine di un jam session nell' ottobre del 2009 decidono di condividere visioni musicali e interessi comuni emersi durante quella felice esperienza. Due anni dopo entrano in sala di registrazione e danno alle stampe per la Red Piano Records, interessante etichetta indipendente con base a Brooklyn, l'omonimo album di debutto. E che debutto!! Vi troviamo undici brani, mediamente sui quattro ...