Jazz Articles about Jon De Lucia

About Jon De Lucia

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Jon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project Strikes Again!

Read "The Brubeck Octet Project Strikes Again!" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
October 29, 2026

There is something deeply satisfying about hearing music that has sat quietly in the shadows for decades, finally given a chance to be heard. That is the pleasure offered by alto saxophonist Jon De Lucia's The Brubeck Octet Project Strikes Again!, the second release from his acclaimed octet. More than a nostalgic return to an important period in jazz history, it also explores fresh musical territory. The cool-jazz sensibility and West Coast refinement are certainly present, but they share the ...

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Jon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project Strikes Again!

Read "The Brubeck Octet Project Strikes Again!" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 25, 2026

After his recording of The Brubeck Octet Project earned widespread approval and acclaim in 2024, saxophonist and jazz historian Jon De Lucia did not rest on those laurels; instead, he delved even more deeply into the original octet's archives and unearthed eleven little-known arrangements that form the basis of a second blockbuster album, The Brubeck Octet Project Strikes Again! And what a strike it is--every inch as perceptive and impressive as De Lucia's earlier survey of the Dave Brubeck Octet, ...

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Jon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project

Read "The Brubeck Octet Project" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 19, 2024

Having formed his jazz octet in 2016 for a project at City College of New York, where he was then teaching, Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist Jon De Lucia had to find new music to keep it going--a search that led him to the archives at Mills College, which housed many of Dave Brubeck's original handwritten charts among the papers of the octet's tenor saxophonist and arranger, Dave Van Kriedt. Eight years later, after extensive research, much hard work ...

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Jon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project

Read "The Brubeck Octet Project" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
June 28, 2024

Synchronicity is a wondrous thing. Item: At around the same time that Albert Ayler was developing his sound in the U.S.A., the Ethiopian tenor saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya was forging a strikingly similar one in Addis Ababa. Neither player had heard the other, and Mekurya had never heard any jazz at all. Feel the Force? Rewind a decade or so and we encounter another space/time portal, this one connecting the U.S.A.'s East Coast and West Coast. In New ...

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Jon De Lucia: And the Stars Were Shining

Read "And the Stars Were Shining" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
September 25, 2023

All instruments can be difficult and some even look intimidating. Some are notoriously tough to play in tune. Some emit unpleasant sounds without much prompting, especially squeaks. Welcome to the world of the clarinet. Non-players often wonder how anyone coaxes pretty sounds from the beast. Some wonder how to coax out any sound at all. The sneaking suspicion is that jazz eventually marginalized the prominent role of the clarinet in Dixieland and Swing because Bop was a bridge too far. ...

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Take Five with Jon De Lucia

by AAJ Staff
August 16, 2023

Meet Jon De Lucia Jon De Lucia is a Brooklyn-based saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. Originally from Quincy, MA, he moved to New York City in 2005.Since then he has performed in the US and internationally at the Burlington Discover Jazz Fest, the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, and the Tamana-shi Jazz Festival in Japan. In New York he has played with Putter Smith, Ray Gallon, Michael Kanan, Steve Little, Bill Crow, Maeve Gilchrist, Joe Hunt, Greg Ruggiero, Nir Felder, Leo Genovese, Kris ...

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Jon De Lucia: As The River Sings

Read "As The River Sings" reviewed by Neri Pollastri

by Neri Pollastri
May 9, 2018

Registrato nel luglio del 2014 esce per la Fresh Sound New Talent questo lavoro del multistrumentista Jon De Lucia, nato nel Massachusetts ma residente a New York, autore di tutte le composizioni e alla testa di un quartetto nel quale, oltre alla ritmica classica, trova posto la chitarra di Greg Ruggiero. La cifra del lavoro è quella di un jazz moderno molto mobile dal punto di vista delle atmosfere, ancorché relativamente semplice quanto a strutture, comunque non banali, ...