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About Alexa Tarantino
Instrument: Saxophone, alto
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Alexa Tarantino
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Alexa Tarantino is an award-winning, vibrant, young jazz saxophonist, woodwind doubler, composer, and educator. Alexa’s “lovely, ardent way of improvising,” and “sharply plotted but gracefully unencumbered straight-ahead jazz [compositions]” (Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times) establish her individual voice which shines through as a dynamic performer and educator. Tarantino was recently named one of the “Top 5 Alto Saxophonists of 2019” by the JazzTimes Critics’ Poll. Her debut album, Winds of Change, peaked at #15 on the JazzWeek Charts and landed at #79 for JazzWeek’s Top 100 records of 2019. Tarantino’s performance highlights include prestigious venues such as Jazz in Marciac Festival (with Wynton Marsalis and the Young Stars of Jazz), Umbria Jazz Festival (with Ryan Truesdell’s Gil Evans Project), the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Hollywood Bowl (with Sherrie Maricle & the DIVA Jazz Orchestra), the Rockport Jazz Festival (Alexa Tarantino Quintet), Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts (with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra), and the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival (with LSAT, Earth, Wind & Fire and others)
Electric Miles 2
By Charles Pillow Large Ensemble
Label: Summit/Mama
Released: 2023
Track listing: It’s about that time; Rated X;
Shhh/Peaceful;
Great Expectations;
Yaphet;
Agharta;
Willie Nelson.
In Real Time
By Artemis
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Slink; Bow and Arrow; Balance of Time; Lights Away from Home; Timber; Whirlwind; Empress
Afternoon; Penelope.
Detroit Jazz Festival 2023: A Tribute to a Great Jazz City
by Paul Rauch
Detroit Jazz Festival 2023 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI September 1-4, 2023 Opening night is always a gas. Whether it takes the form of the annual rite of spring in baseball, the long anticipated opening of a Broadway play, or for that matter, the opening salvo of a world ...
Charles Pillow Large Ensemble Set To Release 'Electric Miles 2' on October 6th
Charles Pillow Large Ensemble Electric Miles 2 The follow-up to acclaimed saxophonist/arranger Charles Pillow’s, “Electric Miles” , one of NPR’s top ten CD’s for 2018, is a further exploration of Miles Davis’ early electric period, 1969-74, arranged for a large jazz ensemble. This time Pillows’ arrangements add 3 french horns in addition to the usual big ...
Artemis: In Real Time
by Katharine (Katchie) Cartwright
For drummer Allison Miller, a key feature of In Real Time is that this second Blue Note release captures the unique ensemble sound of Artemis. She stresses a palpable sonic integrity that she attributes to trust and chemistry. Renee Rosnes emphasizes the singularity of each player in the equation, underscoring “a striking juxtaposition between the stylistic ...
Artemis: In Real Time
by Mike Jurkovic
Artemis double down on their fiery yet regal 2020 self-titled, Blue Note debut with a punchy, calligraphic flare (thanks in part to their younger contemporaries, in demand multi-reedist Alexa Tarantino and hellfire saxophonist Nicole Glover), catch fire, and watch it spread. An early, sure-fire contender for the tops-of-twenty-three list barrage, In Real Time is ...
Swings Broadway
Label: Diva Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Heart; Pure Imagination; The Man I Love; With Every Breath I Take; The Sound of Music;
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’; Seventy-Six Trombones; Love Who You Love; Get Me to the
Church on Time.
Ghost Song
Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Wuthering Heights;
Optimistic Voices / No Love Dying;
Ghost Song ;
Obligation;
Until;
I Lost My Mind;
Moon Song;
Trail Mix;
The World Is Mean;
Dead Poplar;
Thunderclouds;
Unquiet Grave.
The Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra
Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: I’ve Got Algorithm; Sassy; Inner Urge; Until; Scenes from My Dreams; Remember Me;
Dollar’s Moods; Nica’s Dream; Blues in a Second.
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