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Spring Quartet at Dalton Recital Hall
by John Ephland
Spring Quartet Dalton Recital Hall, Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI May 4, 2019 They had to add chairs. The 435-seat Dalton Recital Hall, on the campus of Western Michigan University, was filled with multiple generations of music fans from all walks of life. The alluring ticket, brought to town by Fontana Chamber Arts, was the Spring Quartet in their final concert of a coast-to-coast tour.In fact, it had been five years since ...
read moreAndrea Lombardini Trio: ALT 88
by AAJ Italy Staff
In ALT 88 troviamo il trio capitanato dal bassista elettrico Andrea Lombardini - lodato da Steve Swallow nelle note di copertina - che, con due colleghi americani, suona una musica che spazia da temi monkiani ad altri legati ad un mainstream elegante e raffinato o - quando Leo Genovese è al sintetizzatore - ad un jazz elettrico crossover. Alla fine, più che le doti compositive del leader, vengono fuori le notevoli capacità strumentali dei tre, molto abili a gestire ogni ...
read moreLeo Genovese: Unlocked
by Phil DiPietro
Boston takes pride in it's stature as one of those old Yankee towns where it's tough to establish a foothold--a place where it takes three generations to break into an old neighborhood. While it's brimming with young jazz talent, the majority make the most of the locally rigorous musical pedagogy before making haste for New York. Rarely do young players gig in its clubs with the small established cadre of its recognized recording veterans, like George Garzone, Hal ...
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