Jazz Articles about David Occhipinti

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David Occhipinti: Looking Glass

by Glenn Astarita
June 22, 2026

David Occhipinti delivers a compact yet richly textured statement with Looking Glass, a collection that runs approximately 35 minutes and registers more as a carefully curated EP than a conventional full-length album. The work centers on original compositions for electric guitar and string trio, drawing inspiration from Dadaist artists and the surreal narratives of Lewis Carroll. The result is music that moves fluidly between the familiar and the disorienting, mirroring the reflective quality suggested by its title. The ...

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Andrew Downing/Jim Lewis/David Occhipinti: Bristles

by Dan Bilawsky
June 12, 2014

A painterly approach to standards and a not-so-standard approach to portraying painters are the two themes of Bristles. Bassist Andrew Downing, trumpeter Jim Lewis, and guitarist David Occhipinti visit in on six classics--five of which were recorded live in January of 2013 at the Jazz Room in Waterloo, Canada--and create six miniature canvases that honor boundary-pushing artists. The standards, save for a fragmented, cross-talking take on “Solar," prove to be the more substantial offerings. This trio manages ...

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David Occhipinti: Intersection

by AAJ Staff
March 18, 2004

For David Occipinti's fourth record, the Toronto guitarist has expanded for the first time to a quartet. The conventional guitar unit with saxophone, bass, and drums serves his polite but outgoing sound, providing a platform where he can stretch the boundaries of traditional head-solos-head composition without straying overly far from formal structure. For the record, all tracks were composed by the leader.

The two lead players (Occhipinti and saxophonist Mike Murley, who together recorded Duologue in 2002) rise ...