Jazz Articles about Steve Patrick

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Album Review

Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra: Tenor Madness

Read "Tenor Madness" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 9, 2025

Nashville-based composer, arranger and saxophonist Ryan Middagh salutes apostles of the mid-range wind instrument on Tenor Madness, his second recording as leader of the Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra. Even so, there are no tenor solos after the first three of the album's half-dozen numbers, on which tenors Don Aliquo and Jeff Coffin ("Wiley Roots"), Aliquo again ("Waiter, Make Mine Blues"), Coffin and New York luminary Joel Frahm--who together galvanize the album's robust title song--are featured. While the ...

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Jimmy Hall: Ready Now

Read "Ready Now" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
December 3, 2022

Vocalist/musician/songwriter Jimmy Hall has had quite the career for himself. From his days as frontman for Dixie rockers Wet Willie-- remember “Keep On Smilin'"?--to more recently singing with guitar hero Jeff Beck, he's navigated spots on the Allman Family Revival tour as well as commanded the stage on multiple occasions with the latter-day Allman Brothers Band during their final years of annual runs at the Beacon Theater. The Alabama native has always acquitted himself with more than a ...

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Steve Patrick And The Music City Orchestra: Reflections

Read "Reflections" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
July 18, 2022

Back in the 1960s, sound technologies and in-studio recording/engineering advances were developing rapidly. Labels such as Solid State and Command Records produced brilliant, acoustically enhanced recordings, many done by New York studio greats such as trumpeter Doc Severinsen. Those companies leveraged technical advances to enhance the talents of the recording artists. As a result, it was a musically rich time for record buyers. With Reflections, trumpeter Steve Patrick, long an ardent admirer of Severinsen, delivers ten selections ...

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The Loudhorns: One For Maynard

Read "One For Maynard" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
May 10, 2009

For those who think that Nashville, TN., aka Music City, is solely entrenched within the Country Music and Americana realm, then you'd be dead wrong. With one of the nation's strongest jazz radio stations, WMOT and music venues that promote numerous stylistic avenues, Nashville offers a potpourri of multi-genre related activities. Here, some of the city's top-flight session artists join forces and pay some exuberant homage to the late trumpeter Maynard Ferguson.The respective performers' resumés span gigs with ...