Results for "Chuck Berghofer"

Chuck Berghofer

Born: June 14, 1937

Chuck Berghofer was a part of the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra around 1967 when Frank Zappa recorded the orchestral parts for Lumpy Gravy. Berghofer provided bass, also in 1972 with Van Dyke Parks Discover America.

Overtones

By Doug MacDonald

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Night by Night; Bossa for PK; Blues by Eight; Hortense; Lover Man; Over #21; Ground Up; Rickey Speaking.

Big Band Extravaganza

By Doug MacDonald

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Toluca Lake Jazz; Rashomon; Luces Azules; Aventura en Triadas; Desert Jazz; Luz de Amour; De Ha; But Not for Me; Minor Mess; Ya Know Bill.

Doug MacDonald: Big Band Extravaganza

by Richard J Salvucci
August 11, 2023

Some reviewers have been known to complain that contemporary big bands can do most anything but swing. Like all generalizations, there is some merit to the observation. But, like all generalizations, the occasional exception falsifies it. Looking for a big band that pushes all the right buttons? Look no further. Doug MacDonald's “desert jazz" band is ...

Doug MacDonald: Big Band Extravaganza

by Jack Bowers
March 17, 2023

Pardon the superlative, but what a terrific album! Extravanga marks the debut of guitarist Doug MacDonald's seventeen-member Jazz Orchestra, and he has guaranteed that it swings with gusto by writing nine perceptive and luminous charts that are sure to bring out the best in any ensemble, especially one as well-equipped as this. During his decades-long career ...

Times Like These

By Nica Carrington

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Skylark; Left Alone; When Sunny Gets Blue; Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye; We’ll Be Together Again; The Summer Knows; You Don’t Know What Love Is; Angel Eyes; The Shadow of Your Smile; Here’s to Life.

Electric Parker

Label: Play & Oracle Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Scrapple From The Apple; Confirmation; Moose The Mooche; Billie's Bounce; Donna Lee; My Little Suede Shoes; Yardbird Suite; Segment; Blues For Alice; Barbados.

Nica Carrington: Times Like These

by Jack Bowers
October 3, 2022

Even though she had been singing, more or less, since she was a child, it was not until the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic that New Yorker Nica Carrington came to realize that tomorrows come with no guarantees, and that the time had come to buckle down and get serious about her craft. After moving from one voice ...

Doug MacDonald: Overtones

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 2022

The term “all-star" is not one to be used lightly. Be that as it may, the appellation fits guitarist Doug MacDonald's Los Angeles-based octet as snugly as a glove; he and his colleagues are among the finest, most experienced and in-demand musicians on the West Coast. On Overtones, recorded in September 2021, the ensemble shows its ...

Nica Carrington: Times Like These

by Pierre Giroux
September 25, 2022

Intrepid may be the best word to use to describe the singer Nica Carrington's self-produced debut album. Not many months before recording it, Nica, who had been taking voice lessons, came across the highly regarded Los Angeles based pianist, arranger, and jazz voice instructor John Proulx, who thought that she showed such promise that he was ...