Denis DeBlasio

Denis DeBlasio: Duets

by AAJ Staff
March 1, 1997

While these two Denis DeBlasio CDs are packaged as a set, they actually project two very different concepts joined in continuity by DeBlasio's style and instrumentation and by pianist Jim Ridl's percussive backup and imaginative soloing. The content of the albums is self-explanatory. Reflections of Childhood is, according to the liner notes, DeBlasio's “jazz interpretations of being a father and reliving my childhood." Duets, of course, consists of a series of standards and original compositions performed by DeBlasio and Ridl ...