Jazz Articles about Chuck D'Aloia

Chuck D'Aloia/David Calarco/Rich Syracuse: This Thing of Ours

by Dave Nathan
February 1, 2001

The three artists featured on this album are among upstate New York's finest musicians and come together to create spontaneous improvisational music in the jazz tradition. They offer an assorted play list of classic and jazz standards mixed with originals by Chuck D'Aloia and David Calarco. Not only is the play list diverse, but so is the playing style. There's a bit of flirtation with avant-garde - - as championed by John Coltrane rather than Ornette Coleman - - on ...