Jazz Articles about Michael Santos

About Michael Santos

Album Review

Scott Routenberg Trio: Live at Merrimans' Playhouse: Oscar Peterson Tribute

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by Jack Bowers
May 12, 2026

The indomitable spirit of Canada's gift to pianistic supremacy is ever-present on the Scott Routenberg Trio's radiant and swinging centennial Oscar Peterson Tribute, recorded in concert at Merryman's Playhouse Jazz in South Bend, Indiana, on October 11, 2025. Routenberg, an award-winning pianist, composer, arranger and educator, knows as well as anyone that there has been and likely will always be only one Oscar Peterson, a giant of jazz piano whose peerless ingenuity and mind-numbing technique were (and remain) ...

Album Review

The Flying Horse Big Band: A Message From The Flying Horse Big Band

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by Jack Bowers
January 3, 2024

The Message on the Florida-based Flying Horse Big Band's sixth album comes straight from the “messengers" themselves-- drummer Art Blakey's legendary Jazz Messengers, whose music is admirably presented here, and to whom the album is dedicated. Its ten songs were composed by members of the Jazz Messengers--Wayne Shorter, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Cedar Walton, Benny Golson--and two were re-scored for a large ensemble by former Messenger Michael Philip Mossman, with other charts by Mark Taylor (four), Harry ...

Album Review

Michael Santos: The Happy Error

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 13, 2009

Michael Santos, giovane artista londinese, dopo Matters e Soft Pocket - usciti rispettivamente per Bebencula e U-Cover - pubblica questo splendido Happy Error per la altrettanto giovane e sperimentale Baskaru. L'etichetta, sebbene attiva da poco, ha un catalogo molto interessante e si spera possa offrire a Santos una visibilità e una distribuzione maggiori. Rispetto ai precedenti lavori, costruiti con registrazioni di suoni sul campo, questo album segna una vera svolta verso il digitale puro, sonorità costruite in ogni minimo dettaglio ...