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Showtime by Anthony Stanco

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Album Title: Stanco's Time
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2024

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About the Album

Detroit-bred trumpeter and composer Anthony Stanco is a 5th generation Italian-American, steeped in the tenets of Black American Music: blues, bebop, and the progressive fire that fuels modern jazz. In his sound, the guidance of Dizzy Gillespie, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, and Miles Davis, as well as his close mentors Marcus Belgrave and Rodney Whitaker, is evident and clearly celebrated. Full of joyous, vibrant discoveries, ‘Stanco's Time’ announces not only a trumpeter entering his primetime, but also suggests the idea of traveling back to New York's 52nd Street circa 1955, with fresh, fiery sounds billowing out of clubs, marking a monumental cultural revolution. Along with his quintet—guitarist Randy Napoleon, pianist Xavier Davis, Rodney Whitaker on bass and drummer Joe Farnsworth—Stanco deftly avoids the trap of repertory imitation and hero worship by imbuing his originals and arrangements with life, fire and relevancy.

Tracks

Showtime; Stanco’s Time; Hot House; If You Could See Me Now; Josie Rosie; Dig; Deep Time; Worth the Time; Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me; Minor Time; Ask Me Now; Now’s the Time.

Personnel

Additional Personnel

Walter Blanding: tenor saxophone.

Reviews

Stanco's Time by Jack Bowers

Date featured

June 27, 2024

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