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Sing like nobody's streaming: Aron's Vintage Pop

by Leo Sidran
July 5, 2025

Aron! born Aron Stornaiuolo, grew up in North Carolina. He began his musical life playing guitar, eventually discovering jazz and the American songbook through an 80 year old teacher he met at a music store. He studied classical guitar at the North Carolina School of the Arts and went on to major in jazz guitar and film scoring at the University of Miami. Along the way, he played indie rock, fell in love with Nat King Cole, and even performed ...

Album Review

Keshav Batish: Binaries in Cycle

Read "Binaries in Cycle" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
October 31, 2021

Drummer Keshav Batish is a third-generation musician. His father, Pandit Ashwin Batish, is a sitar player well-versed in both Indian classical music and Western rock, while his grandfather, S. B. Batish, worked in the Bollywood film industry as a singer, composer and arranger. With that background, it is no surprise that Keshav would become a musician himself, embarking on a path which mixes the structures of Indian Hindustani music with the exuberance and freedom of jazz. Batish's drumming ...

Album Review

Danielle Friedman: School of Fish

Read "School of Fish" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
April 5, 2019

It's taken a while to review School of Fish, the very engaging debut by pianist Danielle Friedman because it's so easy to get carried away by the imaginative leaps and bounds she and her trio take in pursuit of her musical wanderlust. So you listen. Then listen again. And again. Written entirely by the Israeli born / NY schooled / German resident and ably abetted by bassist Aron Caceres and drummer David Jimenez, Friedman's School of Fish comes ...

Album Review

Danielle Friedman Trio: School of Fish

Read "School of Fish" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
March 23, 2019

Danielle Friedman is an Israeli-born, Germany-based pianist who offers up her debut recording with School Of Fish. Some musicians take a handful of recordings to find their voice. Friedman and her trio--with bassist Aron Caceres and drummer David Jimenez--have done it coming out of the gate. The album kicks off with “Shalom Ani Danielle," an achingly beautiful ballad that exploits repetition and a dynamic group interplay. “5 Trolls," the second tune of this all-Friedman-originals set, opens with a ...