Jazz Articles about Luke Gillespie

About Luke Gillespie

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Buselli / Wallarab Jazz Orchestra: The Gennett Suite

Read "The Gennett Suite" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 6, 2023

This is where music for mass consumption--recorded music--started, in Richmond, Indiana, in the 1920s, in a piano factory by the railroad tracks in a glacier-carved gorge. Established in 1887, in the beginning Starr Pianos' bread and butter was pianos, but they branched out to selling other instruments and eventually photographs and records--their own records, recorded in the piano factory, taking breaks in the process when a train came by. At first, they called their recording side of the business Starr ...

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Luke Gillespie: Moving Mists

Read "Moving Mists" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
February 7, 2020

Insegnante di piano jazz all'Indiana University e leader di un trio, Luke Gillespie ha mostrato in altri dischi di saper rileggere con inventiva il songbook jazzistico, aggiungendo personali doti d'autore. Vive e opera lontano da New York in una dimensione apparata ma il suo pianismo non è inferiore a quello di artisti più noti. Nel suo stile troviamo influenze di Ahmad Jamal e una chiara sensibilità classica ma Gillespie è a suo agio anche in clima bop. Nato ...

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Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra: Happenstance

Read "Happenstance" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2000

Almost every year, it seems, a marvelous new big band comes out of nowhere to bowl me over and leave an irrepressible smile on my face. In '98, the mile--wide grin was occasioned by the high--flying Hawk--Richard Jazz Orchestra from Austin, TX, followed last year by trumpeter Kevin Seeley's dazzling Emerald City ensemble from Seattle, WA. As the new millennium dawns I'm smiling rhapsodically again, and the impetus this time is the sharp and swinging Mark Buselli--Brent Wallarab Jazz Orchestra ...