Jazz Articles about Brian O'Neill

About Brian O'Neill

Album Review

Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica: Third River Rangoon

Read "Third River Rangoon" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 14, 2011

La grafica di copertina, il nome del gruppo, il titolo dell'album e quello dei brani indirizzano senza esitazione verso la cosiddetta lounge music. Musica che non impegna la mente, che ti accarezza leggera come brezza che arriva dal mare mentre si conversa con gli amici gustando cocktails dal nome esotico... Ed in effetti Third River Rangoon si muove proprio nei territori cari all'Exotica Music, una miscela di jazz, sonorità latine e polinesiane assai di moda negli anni cinquanta e sessanta, ...

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Album Review

Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica: Third River Rangoon

Read "Third River Rangoon" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
May 22, 2011

The “Mr. Ho" of Mr. Ho's Orchestrotica is vibraphonist Brian O'Neil, who has put together a vibraphone quartet, also featuring flute, percussion and bass, for Third River Rangoon. The music, dubbed “exotica," drifts back and forth across the less than distinct border between third stream chamber jazz and classical, with hints of world music influenced by a tropical island Tiki god thrown in for good measure.Mr. Ho's previous exotica release explored the artistry of Mexican composer Juan Garcia ...

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Interview

Mr Ho's Orchestrotica: Endless Bachelor Party

by Gordon Marshall
January 18, 2011

Led by pianist and multi-percussionist Brian O'Neill, Mr Ho's Orchestrotica plays the kind of music you can listen to with your mother. She'll love the '50s atmosphere of The Unforgettable Sounds of Esquivel (Exotica For Modern Living, 2010)--while you'll pick up all the left-of-center global hints--and she won't even know it's good for her! It's good, indeed, wrought as it is from original charts from lounge/exotica avatar Juan Garcia Esquivel, transcribed from actual recordings by ear. For baby boomers, it ...