Jazz Articles about Cecilia Coleman

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Angela DeNiro: Swingin' with Legends 2

Read "Swingin' with Legends 2" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 14, 2023

On Swingin' with Legends 2, her fourth recorded collaboration with arranger (and husband) Ron Aprea's big band, vocalist Angela DeNiro sings beautifully--and receives a lot of help from her friends, especially guests Ken Peplowski on clarinet, Randy Brecker on trumpet and Lew Tabackin on tenor sax and flute. And what a band! Well-stocked with stars who are eager to fly whenever Aprea raises his baton. Not that DeNiro needs much help. She is quite simply a marvelous ...

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Angela DeNiro: Swingin' with Legends 2

Read "Swingin' with Legends 2" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
December 10, 2023

Vocalist Angela DeNiro sings with blue-ribbon vocal abilities. This is evident in her release Swingin' With Legends 2 . Accompanied by the Ron Aprea Big Band, supplemented by special guests Randy Brecker, Ken Peplowski and Lew Tabackin, she sails through fourteen love songs written by some of the greatest composers of the American Songbook, providing a deep understanding and command of the material she performs. The album opens with “New York City Blues," a not frequently ...

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Angela DeNiro with the Ron Aprea Big Band: Swingin' with Legends 2

Read "Swingin' with Legends 2" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
July 27, 2023

Swingin' with Legends 2 from Angela DeNiro with the Ron Aprea Big Band, is a follow-up to their first Legends effort in 1988. The album, as was its Grammy-entered predecessor, is a quintessentially classic big band recording featuring a fine female vocalist. The fourteen tunes here are predominantly from the Great American Songbook, with jazz greats Randy Brecker, Lew Tabackin, and Ken Peplowski delivering outstanding cameos. The opener “New York Blues" is a flat-out swinger with DeNiro belting ...

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Bill Warfield and the Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra: Smile

by Jack Bowers
June 21, 2020

Having no idea what to expect from an ensemble labeled the Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra, the game plan must be to advance with caution, as any orchestra with trumpeter Bill Warfield at the helm can't be all bad. After listening, it becomes clear that the game plan was sound and the premise accurate: Smile, the HKFO's second recording, isn't all bad. The question is: did Warfield and the orchestra have its own game plan? If snatching every ingredient within reach ...

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Damian: Early Autumn

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 6, 2011

Arrivato al terzo CD Damian continua la sua rilettura del Great American Songbook con alle spalle una big band molto professionale ed il grande Brian Lynch in primo piano. Con la sua intonazione perfetta fa rivivere classici resi famosi da Frank Sinatra e altri grandi del mestiere, in un periodo in cui la professionalità dei cantanti e delle big band erano importantissime e la gente ballava ascoltandoli. Fra i musicisti, oltre a Lynch, si fa notare pure il sax alto ...

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Cecilia Coleman Big Band: Oh Boy!

Read "Oh Boy!" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
September 5, 2011

The phrase “Oh boy," can be a statement of excitement, an expression of an event that grabs your attention or, in this case, an appropriate reaction to the swinging orchestrations from the Cecilia Coleman Big Band. Oh Boy! is a powerful draw and the debut album from pianist/composer Coleman's new group, presenting thundering big band music of a contemporary nature. Best known for her various working quintet's that have produced five albums since 1992, Coleman formed the group in January ...

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Damian: Damian with Brian Lynch and Friends

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 19, 2010

Uno sguardo alla lista dei brani ed alla foto in copertina del cantante, in frac e con i capelli freschi di tintura, potrebbe far pensare ad una cosa da piano bar. Niente di più errato: ci troviamo di fronte ad un interprete di standards, con una grande voce e una dizione perfetta. Ad accompagnarlo un'ottima band e Brian Lynch, un autentico fuoriclasse della tromba. Gli arrangiamenti moderni, ad esempio gli accenti funky di “People Will Say We're in Love, o ...