Loyola University

Loyola University Jazz Combo: Watercolors

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 1999

Perhaps inspired by the Marsalis family, New Orleans has turned out a number of world–class Jazz musicians in the past several years, as well as one of the country’s fastest–rising groups, Astral Project, whose saxophonist, Tony Dagradi, wrote the liner notes for this debut recording by the six–member Loyola University (New Orleans) Jazz Combo. Dagradi not only admires these young musicians, he also teaches them. And on the basis of Watercolors, one must surmise that they’ve learned their lessons well. ...