Jazz Articles about Josh Orlando

About Josh Orlando

Album Review

Dave Mattock has spent more than two decades quietly building one of Philadelphia's most reliable musical reputations--teaching at Temple, gigging at Ortlieb's, holding down residencies, and releasing records on his own terms. Knucklebox is his fifth album and second with the organ trio Funktap. The title, Mattock has explained, refers to the musical and technical puzzles embedded in the compositions. Fair warning: some of these puzzles do not come with an answer key. Funktap features Mattock on Hammond ...

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Maci Miller: Nine

Read "Nine" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
August 18, 2023

Philadelphia-based singer Maci Miller gives her audience a variety of looks, all of them good. On first hearing, Blossom Dearie, but then, Blossom Dearie was Blossom Dearie. No one ever sounded quite like her. Then again, there is some mid 1960s Nancy Wilson, hushed, clipped, all business. On reflecting that Dearie and Wilson an odd combination do make, one just listens and stops thinking influences, other than “eclectic." Or maybe Billie Holiday, if Miller is in the mood. A Philly ...

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Dave Hartl: "Tales from the Plague"

Read ""Tales from the Plague"" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki

by Chris M. Slawecki
April 4, 2022

Dave Hartl “Tales of the Plague" Self-Produced 2021 Dave Hartl stretches his prowess on keyboards and many other instruments across several different ensembles in and around Philadelphia, PA: A quartet supporting a vocalist, a Linda Ronstadt tribute/review, a jazz-funk group (Musical Collusion, which also includes saxophonist Carl Cox), and a large esoteric classical ensemble featuring harps, vibraphone and theremin (The Divine Hand Ensemble). He also occasionally sits in with The ...