Jazz Articles about Victor Noriega

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Victor Noriega: Alay

by Jerry D'Souza
June 6, 2006

Victor Noriega goes back to his roots on Alay, his second album, to play traditional Filipino songs and originals based on Filipino music. He was awarded a grant from the Jack Straw Artist Support Program to arrange an album of Filipino tunes in 2005, and this is the result.

Filipino music has absorbed European and American influences into indigenous sounds. And while these selections dwell strongly on the former side, Noriega adds jazz harmony to give the music pith and ...

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Victor Noriega: Hangin

by Jason West
November 24, 2005

Shanghai as been referred to as the Paris of the East and the Whore of the Orient. It's one of the fastest growing cities in the world and one of the most densely populated. The city's history is rich with tales of gangsters and opium dens, but today its streets are filled with signs of Western trade, hordes of foreign tourists and, among them, musicians from all over the world.

When Victor Noriega visited Shanghai in February and March of ...

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Victor Noriega: Stone's Throw

by Jason West
May 8, 2004

In mid-April KBCS Jazz Program Director Gordon Todd, on his Thursday morning Drive Time Jazz show, interviewed local pianist and composer Victor Noriega. Todd praised Noriega’s all-original, debut recording, Stone’s Throw, and acknowledged him and his trio mates, Will Blair (double-bass) and Eric Eagle (drums), as part of a new, up-and-coming crop of local jazz musicians. A week earlier, I had heard Noriega’s CD and liked it at first listen—a rare occurrence. Discovering a local DJ who shares my taste ...