Jazz Articles about Bob Nieske

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New England Jazz Collaborative: Tributaries

by Jack Bowers
August 25, 2026

Tributaries is the debut recording by the seventeen-member New England Jazz Collaborative whose origin and purpose are summed up as follows: “an artist-led non-profit collective dedicated to commissioning, presenting and documenting new music and expanding the audience for what remains a thrilling and vital musical form." The album consists of half a dozen fresh compositions by a quartet of talented composers and arrangers: NEJC founder Jeremy Cohen, Matan Rubinstein, Darryl Harper and Sam Spear, with the ensemble ably ...

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Marilena Paradisi, Bob Nieske: Here and Now

by Neri Pollastri
December 5, 2025

Il duo tra voce e contrabbasso è una delle formazioni tradizionali del jazz e ha tra i suoi interpreti artisti come Ella Fitzgerald e Ray Brown o Sheila Jordan e Cameron Brown. In questo lavoro sono la cantante romana Marilena Paradisi, autrice e ricercatrice giunta al suo nono album, e il contrabbassista bostoniano Bob Nieske, artista che ha al suo attivo collaborazioni di tutto rispetto, inclusa quella giovanile con Jimmy Giuffre, a riproporne la forma, con un approccio classico e ...

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New Guitar Summit: Shivers

by Mike Perciaccante
August 10, 2008

The second album from the triumvirate of virtuoso guitarists J. Geils, Duke Robillard and Gerry Beaudoin is another set of vintage jazz-blues in which the three guitarists improvise while prodding, teasing and pushing each other to greater heights. While only four of the tracks are originals written by one or more members of the group, each track fits comfortably within the swing-bop-jazz-blues context of the album.

On Shivers the three are joined by yet another brilliant guitarist, Randy ...