Jazz Articles about Tony Gairo

The Tony Gairo-Gary Rissmiller Jazz Orchestra: Treacherous

by Edward Blanco
April 29, 2006

A working big band performing Tuesday nights at the Indulge Restaurant and Night Club in Allentown, Pennsylvania since 2003, the Tony Gairo-Gary Rissmiller Jazz Orchestra debuts with this album sculpted in the finest big band jazz tradition. Led by saxophonist Tony Gairo and drummer Gary Rissmiller, this sixteen-piece ensemble of local players lays down eight tracks of sizzling big band music recorded live, in real time with no overdubs. All of the music was composed and arranged by Gairo, whose ...