Jazz Articles about Vern Sielert

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Album Review

Jim Knapp Orchestra: It's Not Business, It's Personal

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by Jack Bowers
December 12, 2021

The Jim Knapp Orchestra's CD It's Not Business, It's Personal, recorded in February 2009, was set to be released on November 19, 2021—six days after Knapp died at age eighty-two in Kirkland, Washington. Apart from his role as bandleader, Knapp was a trumpeter, composer, arranger and longtime faculty member at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Described by Grammy-winning composer/pianist Jim McNeely as “a brilliant musician, great teacher and a humble, sweet [and] generous man," Knapp was widely recognized ...

Album Review

Greg Yasinitsky YAZZ Band: New Normal

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by Jack Bowers
February 18, 2021

As one good album clearly deserves another, Greg Yasinitsky, who wears many hats—composer, arranger, woodwind specialist and educator among them—has released New Normal, the second impressive outing by his admirable Washington state-based ensemble, the YAZZ Band, which varies in size from septet to tentet. Unlike Yasinitsky's earlier album, YAZZ Band, which was recorded basically in one session with fixed personnel, the coronavirus pandemic upended any such plan this time, forcing an end to in-person studio sessions after five tracks had ...

Album Review

Marco Bittelli: Alba

by AAJ Italy Staff
September 11, 2013

Il chitarrista italiano Marco Bittelli ci propone questo album intitolato Alba, il secondo da leader, che lo vede impegnato alla testa di un sestetto tutto americano che in alcuni casi si allarga per ospitare il contributo di altri tre musicisti. I brani sono tutti originali e sono tutti scritti da Marco Bittelli con l'eccezione del brano “Perdermi" che è scritto dal fratello Stefano. Siamo dalle parti del mainstream più classico, brani latineggianti, ballate dolci, un po' di jazz placidamente eseguito, ...