Results for "Amanda Ruzza"

Read "On Track" reviewed by Edward Blanco

New York flugelhornist and composer Dennis Angel presents a collection of funk, Latin-tinged and contemporary jazz sounds in a musical package of smooth-styled jazz featuring pianist of note Kenny Barron on the light and savvy On Track. A lawyer by profession with a New York City suburban law firm, Angel delivers his third album as leader ...

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Glasses, No Glasses

By AMANDA RUZZA

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Souncheck; Glasses; Big Foot; No Glasses; Fuego; Classic Golden; Sugar High; Everybody's Talking

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW October 6, 2014

Amanda Ruzza & Mauricio Zottarelli: Glasses, No Glasses

By ERNEST BARTELDES

Those familiar with Amanda Ruzza's debut solo This Is What Happened (2012, Pimenta Music) will find no similarities between that project and this collaboration with fellow Brazilian drummer Mauricio Zottarelli. While that first disc went into more of a samba-jazz direction, this one could be classified as an electronic jazz album with funk-blues tendencies. Playing in ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW February 11, 2014

Shirazette Tinnin: Humility: Purity of My Soul

By HRAYR ATTARIAN

Drummer Shirazette Tinnin's debut album Humility: Purity of My Soul is a solid and inventive soul-jazz date that showcases several facets of her talent. In addition to Tinnin's passionate yet subtle and sophisticated handling of her kit the disc demonstrates her compositional creativity and her deft leadership. Tinnin's boldly visceral beats create the stimulating ...

NEWS: INTERVIEW January 10, 2014

Baritone Saxophone Artist, B.J. Jansen Interviewed On WHCR 90.3FM "The Voice Of Harlem"

Baritone Saxophone Artist, B.J. Jansen was interviewed on WHCR 90.3FM “The Voice of Harlem", January 5th, 2014 by Lamon Fenner on Lamon's Jazz Break @ 8. Jansen discusses his first new release in nearly two years, a new quartet album entitled, RONIN. He talks with Lamon about the deeper and more philosophical aspects of his new ...

NEWS: RECORDING January 4, 2014

Baritone Saxophonist, B.J. Jansen Releases, "Ronin, The Masterless Samurai"

His first new release in nearly two years, B.J. Jansen returns with a new quartet album Ronin. Ronin hits the streets March 4th, 2014 and features; Mamiko Watanabe on piano, Mike Boone on bass, Amanda Ruzza on bass, Chris Beck on drums and Dorota Piotrowska on drums. During the feudal period in Japan (1185-1868), a Ronin ...

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This Is What Happened

By AMANDA RUZZA

Label: Pimienta Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: Larry and I; Pagao; Costanera; Monday, 3 A.M.; Pimenta no Choro; Gin; This Is What Happened.

ARTICLE: YEAR IN REVIEW December 30, 2012

R.J. DeLuke's Best Releases of 2012

By R.J. DELUKE

A ton of fine music came out in 2012, like most years, making these year-end lists very difficult. A lot we don't get to hear, so that limits some. For example, I've not yet heard the 2012 disks of drummer Jack DeJohnette, trumpeter Christian Scott or guitarist John McLaughlin and the Fourth Dimension. Having seen each ...

ARTICLE: LIVE REVIEW November 24, 2012

Amanda Ruzza Band: New York, NY, November 8, 2012

By ERNEST BARTELDES

Amanda Ruzza BandZinc BarNew York, NYNovember 8, 2012Brazilian-born bassist Amanda Ruzza took the stage at Greenwich Village's Zinc Bar, backed by a solid band--drummer Mauricio Zotarelli, electric guitarist Alex Nolan, pianist Mamiko Watanabe, trombonist Chris Stover and tenor/soprano saxophonist Ben Flocks--about which the bandleader jokingly referred as “a nice band with ...