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Andrea Tofanelli: Flamingo
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Back in 1974, a French daredevil named Philippe Petit brazenly high-wire walked across the span of New York's Twin Towers. He electrified the pre-internet, pre-YouTube world by spanning the buildings on a ¾" wire cable eight times; a feat of incredible skill, athleticism and bravery later detailed in his book, To Reach the Clouds (North Point Press, 2002). With Flamingo Italian trumpeter Andrea Tofanelli magnificently performs his own incredible high-wire, high-note performance with similar bravado and trumpeting brilliance.
Tofanelli has ...
read moreMike Suter and Slidewerke: The Geezer Strikes!
by Jack Bowers
The “geezer herein is bass trombonist Mike Suter, who had been thinking about recording this album for years and decided to turn thought into action when he glanced in the mirror one recent morning and “some old dude was lookin' back at me. Ready or not, Slidewerke's time had arrived.
Though Suter didn't exactly strike while the iron was hot, this sharp and swinging session was well worth the wait. Slidewerke is a tentet, one-half of which is comprised of ...
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