Jazz Articles about Ray Marchica

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Trombocalist Big Band: The Vigil and the Sleeping Giant

by Jack Bowers
May 18, 2026

Even those whose batting averages are high are not immune from life's unforeseen and often disastrous curve balls. Low-brass multi-instrumentalist Ron Wilkins, riding the wave as a successful musician and bandleader, learned that the hard way when he was struck by Covid in 2020 and spent more than a month in a medically induced coma with the outcome clearly in doubt. As it turns out, fortune smiled on Wilkins, and after relearning such basics as breathing normally, walking, ...

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Ed Palermo: Prog vs. Fusion: A War of the Ages

by Jack Bowers
May 21, 2025

Well, if it walks like a big band and talks like a big band...chances are it's a big band, even though, in the case of Ed Palermo's New York-based 18-piece ensemble, it neither walks nor talks much like any other big band on planet earth. On Prog Vs. Fusion, Palermo casts aside many established harmonic principles in favor of fomenting and supervising a colossal struggle between the powerful forces of progressive rock and fusion. In doing so, ...

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The Ed Palermo Big Band: Prog vs. Fusion: A War of the Ages

by Kyle Simpler
May 15, 2025

Sometimes musicians with serious chops take their music a little too seriously. Others, however, manage to combine talent and humor in a way that proves infectious. The Ed Palermo Big Band is one of the best examples of the latter. With albums drawing on such diverse influences as Frank Zappa, Paul Butterfield, and King Crimson, Palermo delivers a foundation of solid jazz infused with a spirit of experimentation and an eye for the absurd. With Prog vs. Fusion: A War ...

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Ray Marchica: In the Ring

by John Kelman
July 4, 2005

You have to admire itinerant working musicians who manage to put together fresh sounding recording dates that show their broader interests, while at the same time taking care of business. Ray Marchica was the house drummer for the Rosie O'Donnell Show for six years, but while that may have been his bread and butter, he's also been pushing forward with his own career. In the Ring, the followup to his debut, A Different View, doesn't exactly push any boundaries or ...

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Ray Marchica: In The Ring

by Jerry D'Souza
June 30, 2005

Ray Marchica has lived a busy life as drummer. He was on the Rosie O'Donnell Show over its six-year stay on television and sat in the drummer's chair for a host of productions on Broadway. He was also in Woody Allen's Radio Days. Good going certainly, there's nothing like keeping the pulse ticking in more ways than one. In the midst of all this, he found time to record two albums, the first being A Different View.

In the current ...