Jazz Articles about Peter Furlan

Peter Furlan Project: Live at Maureen's Jazz Cellar

by Jack Bowers
January 20, 2026

The third album by the Peter Furlan Project, the New York-born and based saxophonist's splendid nonet, was recorded Live at Maureen's Jazz Cellar in Nyack, NY, on June 20-21, 2025. The concert's nine numbers, all written and arranged by Furlan, travel along a conventional straight-ahead path whose sunny melodic and harmonic byways allow ample room for close group interaction and one or more resourceful solos by every member of the ensemble. While that may be enough ...

Peter Furlan: Spy Glass Hill

by Javier AQ Ortiz
April 10, 2003

Quick and to the Point: Tight and steady debut with fat band tracks and smaller ensemble playing.

Featuring Eddie Palmieri’s jazz octet trumpeter Brian Lynch as well as Andrew Beals on alto sax, Peter Furlan’s New York love affair with the Caribbean is evident in the ambitious mambo big band arrangement for the 14-member brass and reed section of “Sleep Talking.” The performance effectively renders the arrangements’ suggestive jazz and Hispanic mores with groove, swing and plenty of ...