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Jon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project
by Jack Bowers
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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by Chris May
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 ...
Continue ReadingJon De Lucia: And the Stars Were Shining
by Richard J Salvucci
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. ...
Continue ReadingTake Five with Jon De Lucia
by AAJ Staff
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 ...
Continue ReadingJon De Lucia: As The River Sings
by Neri Pollastri
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, ...
Continue ReadingLuce Trio: Pieces, Vol. 1
by AAJ Italy Staff
Pieces, Vol. 1 è disco registrato alla St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church di Brooklyn, scelta quanto mai appropriata e in qualche modo scontata visto che oltre la metà delle tracce presenti nell'album provengono da pagine di G.F. Handel, John Dowland e, in maggior misura, J.S.Bach. Le navate, le volte, le architetture austere e imponenti della chiesa sono perfette nel rimandare con purezza e giusta risonanza le note dispensate con parsimonia dai tre musicisti, i quali provengono da esperienze ...
Continue ReadingJon De Lucia Group: Face No Face
by AAJ Italy Staff
È questa una formazione giovane e brillante, che si è fatta già apprezzare nei numerosi jazz club di Boston. La capeggia l’alto-sassofonista Jon De Lucia, che ha composto e pensato i brani di questo CD in funzione della specifica cifra artistica dei singoli musicisti. Tutti giovani ma talentuosi artisti, accumunati dall’aver conseguito un diploma musicale alla Berklee College Of Music. Una musica energica e dinamica caratterizza le tracce di questo disco, permeata dai suoni e colori delle metropoli statunitensi di ...
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