Jazz Articles about Chris Lacinak

Chris Lacinak: Boom

by Eric J. Iannelli
July 14, 2004

The songs on Boom have an air of familiarity, as if you've heard them somewhere but can't quite remember where or when (a form of déjà vu, incidentally, which commonly afflicts Hart/Rodgers fans). Yet the odds that listeners have heard these before, especially if they are discovering New Orleans (by way of a ten-year stint in New York) drummer Chris Lacinak for the first time, are slim. These nine charts are all originals, spawned during an impromptu recording session in ...