Results for "Renato Caranto"

Renato Caranto

How Can It Be?

By Gordon Lee

Label: PJCE Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: How Can It Be?, Hypatia, Angry Mother Nature, A Robin Weeps, Show Pain, Shaky Assets, Too Soon, Bozo Sulks on the Golf Course, 'Deed I Did It.

Gordon Lee: How Can It Be?

by Jack Bowers
August 9, 2023

Oregon-based pianist Gordon Lee leads a trim quartet through its paces on his seventh album, How Can It Be?, written for the most part during the Covid pandemic and recorded shortly afterward, in October 2022. Before recording, Lee had worked often with tenor saxophonist Renato Caranto and bassist Dennis Caiazza. Drummer Gary Hobbs, ...

Ezra Weiss Big Band: We Limit Not The Truth of God

by Angelo Leonardi
April 1, 2020

Compositore e insegnante alla Portland State University, Ezra Weiss è professionalmente molto attivo in ambito locale. Per il suo debutto discografico ha riunito un'orchestra di 17 elementi per presentare il suo progetto in forma di suite e una coda col celebre “Footprints" di Wayne Shorter. Dei dieci brani originali quattro presentano lunghe narrazioni, esposte ...

Ezra Weiss Big Band: We Limit Not The Truth of God

by Jerome Wilson
November 21, 2019

In 2015 Ezra Weiss began to compose a suite that he intended would be a cautiously optimistic message to his young children about the world they were living in and the challenges and promise they would face as they grew up. By the time this music was completed and recorded in December 2018, its mood and ...

Ezra Weiss Big Band: We Limit Not The Truth of God

by Jack Bowers
November 7, 2019

Composer / arranger Ezra Weiss's debut big-band recording, We Limit Not the Truth of God, is actually a suite written for his two young children to help them understand and embrace the often confusing and chaotic world in which we live. It is thus entirely appropriate that the album was recorded (with an audience) in a ...

Merle Haggard at the Paramount Theater

by Harry S. Pariser
February 27, 2016

Merle Haggard Paramount Theater SFJAZZ Oakland, CA February 13, 2016 Some consider Merle Haggard to be “The Poet Laureate of California." Certainly, he is the state's most famous singer-songwriter and bandleader. His straight-shooting songs, with their wonderful lyrics, have the drama and controversy befitting a country music “rebel."

Gordon Lee with the Mel Brown Septet: Tuesday Night

by Jack Bowers
August 15, 2014

For more than sixteen years, jazz fans in and around Portland, Oregon, have had the pleasure of seeing and hearing drummer Mel Brown's hard-blowing Jazz Messengers-style septet each Tuesday Night at Jimmy Mak's nightclub. Among its mainstays is pianist Gordon Lee who has been writing and arranging for the group almost since he enlisted shortly afterward ...