Results for "Patrick Cornelius"

Patrick Cornelius

Born: September 4, 1978

After 18 years in New York City, alto saxophonist and composer Patrick Cornelius has cultivated a substantial body of work as a composer and bandleader, and performed his original music in some of the world’s top jazz venues. Hailed as “self-assured" and “resourceful" by The New York Times, “Elegant" and “Extraordinary" by DownBeat Magazine (in whose annual Critics Poll he has been listed among the “Rising Stars" multiple times), and “Bold and Gifted," by All About Jazz, Cornelius’ discography of six albums as a leader (and two as co-leader) features established masters (like Jeff Ballard and Frank Kimbrough) as well as rising stars (including Gerald Clayton, Kendrick Scott, and Miles Okazaki)

Bianca

By Dan Pugach

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Tolerance; Bianca; Bella the Bear; Masa; Schleppin’; Travel; Dreams; Discourse This!

Attentive Listening

By Willie Morris

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Water Fountain Of Youth; Terminal Lucidity; The Imitation Game; To Worlds Unknown; Delusion Of Understanding; Leaving Paradise; Moving Right Along; La Mesha; Et Tu, Caribou?; Daly Minor Blues.

Dan Pugach Big Band: Bianca

by Jack Bowers
April 5, 2024

Dan Pugach is an Israeli-born, New York-based drummer who doubles (quite well) as composer and arranger on Bianca, his second recording for Outside In Music. Pugach anchors a splendid big band comprised of some of the New York area's finest musicians on an album whose subtitle is “Music for Paws and Persistence." The ...

Dan Pugach Big Band at The Jazz Loft

by Dan Bilawsky
March 27, 2024

On March 22, 2024, two weeks to the day after Dan Pugach released his first big band record, the celebrated drummer-composer brought his large ensemble to The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook for an album release event that was a resounding success by any measure. That 90-seat venue--a performance space, museum and educational hub with a ...

Willie Morris: Attentive Listening

by David A. Orthmann
March 9, 2024

Attentive Listening, Willie Morris 's second Posi-Tone release in as many years, documents the continuing evolution of a jazz master in the making. Like last year's Conversation Starter, the tenor saxophonist/composer thrives in the stimulating company of alto saxophonist/alto flutist Patrick Cornelius and pianist Jon Davis. Bassist Boris Kozlov and drummer Rudy Royston round out a ...

Conversation Starter

By Willie Morris

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Tina's Dream; St. Upton Hin; Cries; It Is Well With My Soul; The Strength Of Those Who Bear The Burden; Keep Talking; Introspective; Isotope; Azar; Conversational Starter.

Between The Bars

By Behn Gillece

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Between The Bars; Mindful Moments; Thinking Cap; Beatrice; It's Like Magic; Due Up Next; Lucid Vision; Apogee; Roamers; Horizons; Celestial Lullaby.

In Good Standing

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Minor Mishap; Walk Around; Fall; Navy's Mood; Homenaje A Armando; Reimagined; Mixed Feelings; Lullaby For Paw; Nutville; Marina's Arrival; Do It.

Willie Morris: Conversation Starter

by David A. Orthmann
October 1, 2023

The story is old, predictable and often exasperating. A virtually unknown jazz musician distinguishes himself or herself as part of the supporting cast on a handful of recordings. And then begins the wait to see if any label will offer the young, deserving player a shot in the driver's seat. Early this year, ...