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Take Five With Amanda Monaco
by AAJ Staff
Meet Amanda Monaco: Playing guitar has led Amanda Monaco to perform at the Blue Note, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Birdland, Tonic, Joe's Pub, and the JVC Jazz Festival, as well as other venues in the United States and Europe. Amanda has recorded several CDs as both a leader and a sideman, and has ...
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TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 12 — Joey DeFrancesco Snapshot (HighNote) 229 126 +103 18 64 1 2 2 2 2 Poncho Sanchez Psychedelic Blues (Concord) 224 207 +17 2 59 2 6 3 5 6 Jeff Hamilton Trio Symbiosis (Capri) 223 175 +48 1 50 3 5 4 ...
Joseph C. Phillips, Jr.'s Numinous: Vipassana
by David Adler
Composer-conductor Joseph C. Phillips, Jr. has a way of making his ensemble, Numinous, sound even larger than its 25 pieces. Of the three wind players, Ed Xiques plays five different instruments, Dan Willis handles six, Ben Kono a grand total of eight. As a result, Vipassana, Phillips' sophomore recording, abounds with nearly every sort of flute, ...
Amanda Monaco: I Think I'll Keep You
by Stuart Broomer
Amanda Monaco is a guitarist whose style is deeply rooted in her instrument's lyrical lineage, at times channeling the singing tone of Jim Hall, at others declaring her own, more forceful sound. Most of the tunes here are Monaco originals and she's created efficient vehicles for both her own voice and the collective dialogues that seem ...
Intention
Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2007
Track listing: Intention; Resolution Lift; Tel Aviv I Love Her; Procrastination; Old Skool Flava; Deadlines Looming; Deception; My Man Stan.
Amanda Monaco: Intention
by AAJ Italy Staff
C’è qualcosa di sfuggente e di indefinito nella musica di Amanda Monaco, chitarrista e compositrice allieva di Ted Dunbar, Kenny Barron e Harold Mabern, oltre che membro fondatore delle Lascivious Biddies, pluripremiato quartetto pop tutto al femminile. Quando pensi di essere pienamente entrato nei codici interpretativi dei suoi brani, di averne compreso l’intima essenza, ecco che ...
Amanda Monaco 4: Intention
by Clifford Allen
The midrange frequently offers more interesting textures, colors and possibilities in improvised music, precisely because it is sometimes a music that's, even to the initiated, thought of as an art form that embraces the extremes. But for every John McLaughlin or Wes Montgomery, there is a Joe Morris, an Attila Zoller, or an Amanda Monaco.
Amanda Monaco 4: Intention
by John Kelman
It's been four years since Amanda Monaco 4 released its self-titled debut, although guitarist Monaco has been far from inactive. She's appeared on Get Lucky (Eastway, 2004), the second album by all-female cocktail pop band The Lascivious Biddies, published an instructional guitar book, Jazz Guitar for the Absolute Beginner (Alfred Publishing, 2005) and is in a ...
Old Skool Flava
Album: Intention
By Amanda Monaco
Label: Innova Recordings
Released: 2007
Duration: 6:18
Amanda Monaco 4: Intention
by Elliott Simon
Over and above ability, it takes chops, confidence and cool for jazz guitarists to invite a tenor saxophonist to partake in their music. When it gels, such as the classic Rollins/Hall pairing or the more recent Lovano/Scofield tandem, it can result in a meeting that blends the strengths of both instruments into a stylistic whole.
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