Jazz Articles about Antonio Hart

Antonio Hart: Educator and Monster Player

by R.J. DeLuke
August 1, 2022

The Queens Jazz Orchestra took the stage at Flushing Town Hall, a historic building in the jny: New York City borough dedicated to the arts, for an annual jazz concert celebrating the music of Charlie Parker and the career and life of Phil Schaap, a longtime Big Apple radio personality who hosted a show devoted to Parker for some 52 years. The man leading the top-notch band was Antonio Hart, director of jazz studies at Queens College's Aaron ...

Antonio Hart

by David Bixler
September 2, 2020

Antonio Hart: Ama Tu Sonrisa

by AAJ Staff
September 1, 2001

Since we last heard from the young alto player Antonio Hart, it was with the well-received album “Here I Stand" he cut for the former Impulse label. That record was a declaration of Hart's commitment to embracing an organic unity of music and life, and as such was prefaced by a quote from Alvin Ailey that evidently was to serve as Hart's mantra from there on out. Ailey had said “Each Artist must create his own unity according to his ...

Antonio Hart: Here I Stand

by Douglas Payne
May 1, 1997

Young alto player Antonio Hart seems to have spiced up his reverence for Cannonball Adderley with the more peppery fire of Arthur Blythe. Not a bad combination, but Hart's Impulse debut still leaves something to be desired. There's no shortage of professional, competent performances here, and his quartet is equally capable. Even guests like trombonist Robin Eubanks and the under-recorded Shirley Scott make brief, underwhelming appearances. Hart's lackluster originals and the variety of different groups make it clear that this ...