Jazz Articles about George DeLancey

About George DeLancey

Radio & Podcasts

Columbus based bassist George Delancey was a core member of the Larry Fuller Trio and has performed with Ben Patterson, Wynton Marsalis and Houston Person, among others. For this performance, he enlists a number of Central Ohio musicians to Cleveland to work out material in advance of a live album recording.For this performance, George leads a sextet that includes himself on bass, Paul Strawser on piano, Miles Franklin Smith on trumpet, Jake Smith on altos saxophone, Robert Dove ...

Album Review

George DeLancey: Paradise

Read "Paradise" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
June 12, 2020

Is it acceptable to label a musical recording as “delicious"? If so, it describes bassist George DeLancey's sophomore release Paradise. He presents eight compositions, half from his pen and the remaining from Oscar Pettiford, John Lewis, Thelonious Monk, and Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein. The eight tracks, none of which tops five minutes, are well balanced with solos commensurate with that concept. Delancey is a young man (b.1988) with a very old soul. His music brings to mind the aforementioned ...

Album Review

George DeLancey: George DeLancey

Read "George DeLancey" reviewed by James Nadal

by James Nadal
August 23, 2016

During the golden age of the big bands, composers wrote with the entire ensemble as a singular voice, with the soloist (and solos) connected to the concept of the song as a whole. The leading exponent of this era was Duke Ellington, whose writing was built around that awareness; and his songs have withstood the test of time. Listening to bassist George DeLancey on his self-titled debut release, one cannot help but think of the Duke, and the fine art ...