Jazz Articles about Paul Cosentino

About Paul Cosentino

Album Review

Paul Cosentino's Boilermaker Jazz Band: Everything is Jumpin'

Read "Everything is Jumpin'" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 26, 2026

An Artie Shaw songbook with “Grabtown Grapple" and “Jumping on the Merry Go Round" but without “Begin the Beguine" or “Stardust?" Well, anything is possible. On Everything Is Jumpin'!, Paul Cosentino's six-member Boilermaker Jazz Band from western Pennsyvania pays tribute to the legendary clarinet maestro with new versions of 18 numbers recorded either by Shaw's Gramercy Five or his jazz orchestras. “Frenesi" is here, along with “They Say" and “Thanks for Everything," which reached the top of the ...

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Paul Cosentino & the Boilermaker Jazz Band: Panama

by Dave Nathan
April 1, 2001

There seems to be a small but lively revival of swing music from the 1920's and 30's. Don Neely's San Francisco based Royal Society Jazz Orch. has been issuing CDs which delve into the charts from this period. Now along comes the Boilermaker Jazz Band out of Pittsburgh, PA headed by clarinetist Paul Cosentino. Cosentino uses the pretty much discarded complex Albert system of playing which was taught by the well known New Orleans clarinet teacher, Lorenzo Tio, Jr., in ...