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Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Trio: In Full Swing
by Joel Roberts
Mark O'Connor is hotter than hot these days. The onetime country fiddler's best-selling, Grammy- winning classical albums have made him that rarest of things: a crossover artist whose genre-hopping is less about marketing than serious creative expression and boundless musical ambition.
In Full Swing, O'Connor's new tribute to fellow violin virtuoso Stephane Grappelli - the man he calls his mentor - is something of a time-out in O'Connor's assault on the classical world. Regardless, it's an entirely engaging tour de ...
Continue Reading...Mark O'Connor's Hot Swing Trio Settles Into Iridium for Extended Run
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All About Jazz
New York, NY...October 28, 2003...In February, when Mark O'Connor and his Hot Swing Trio played Lincoln Center, The New York Times described O'Connor as a musician who plays jazz “like he had a patent on it." Downbeat called the trio's most recent recording a “virtuoso fest." Mark O'Connor, guitarist Frank Vignola and bassist Jon Burr will bring their Grappelli/Reinhardt-influenced, instrumental jazz to New York's famed Iridium Jazz Club Nov. 11-16, 2003 for a rare, two-show-a-night, six day run. Tickets Tuesday ...
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