Results for "Andy Gravish"

Andy Gravish

Italian Jazz

by Bob Osborne
September 12, 2019

This week we take a look at Italian Jazz with a selection of music from a variety of great players with the main focus being on pianist Enrico Pieranunzi Playlist Enrico Pieranunzi “Amarcord" from Fellini Jazz (C.A.M. Jazz) 00:00 Sebastiano Meloni “Nocturne" from Pictures of a Quartet (Slam Productions) 07:44 Carla Marciano Quartet “Handshake" ...

Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra: Without A Trace

by Jack Bowers
May 7, 2018

Grudging good wishes to New Yorkers who are able to see and hear the world-class Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra on a fairly regular basis. Everyone else must make do with the occasional recording (Without a Trace is only the second by the ten-year-old ensemble which made its debut in 2008). That's not nearly enough, of course, ...

Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra: Without A Trace

by Edward Blanco
April 4, 2018

The Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra follows up the highly successful debut album Portraits and Places (Origin, 2016), with another masterpiece recording on Without A Trace offering new and exciting arrangements of three standards and four creative Reeves originals that all together, pack quite a powerful musical punch. A full-tenured professor at The City University of New ...

John Yao: Flip-Flop

by Karl Ackermann
July 16, 2015

On his 2012 debut, trombonist John Yao navigated multiple complex territories ranging from the experimental to traditional balladry. A regular presence on the New York scene, Yao has worked with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and Arturo O'Farrill's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra. Having absorbed those big band sensibilities, Yao graduates from his inaugural quintet to a seventeen-piece ensemble. ...

John Yao and His 17-Piece Instrument: Flip-Flop

by Jack Bowers
June 17, 2015

Music aside, you have to love the name of this band: John Yao and His 17-Piece Instrument. Now there's confidence with a capital C! Yao, a New York City-based trombonist who arrived there from his native Chicago more than a decade ago, has more recently turned his hand to composing and arranging. Yao writes with the ...

John David Simon: Phantasm

by Edward Blanco
March 27, 2015

Veteran saxophonist John David Simon delivers his third album as leader swinging through a repertoire of ten straight ahead mainstream material on the very classy Phantasm, featuring a blend of sparkling original statements and fresh new arrangements of several standards from such icons as the great John Coltrane, Horace Silver and Pat Martino among others. The ...

George Gee Swing Orchestra: Swing Makes You Happy!

by Dan Bilawsky
January 3, 2015

Swing Makes You Happy! isn't just an album title: it's a mantra and belief system that guides the George Gee Swing Orchestra, a little big band intent on rekindling the ear's love affair with music associated with a bygone era. Gee has been in the big band business for more than three decades, ...

George Gee: Swing Makes You Happy!

by Jack Bowers
December 17, 2014

The George Gee Swing Orchestra swings in the manner of Gee's friend and mentor, Count Basie, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale (Gee's group numbers only eleven, and that includes vocalists Hilary Gardner and John Dokes). Even so, the Basie spirit is ever-present, and if Swing Makes You Happy, Gee's eighth album as leader (and first ...

Monash Sessions: Jazz in New York

By Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music, Monash University

Label: Jazzhead (Australia)
Released: 2013
Track listing: 1. Andy Gravish Ensemble - Swinging At The Haven 06:31 2. Michael Wolfe Ensemble - Portraiture 08:33 3. Michael Wolff Ensemble - Hummin 09:09 4. Sy Johnson Ensemble - Goodbye Porkpie Hat 05:44 5. Sy Johnson Ensemble - Blues Suite #4 07:37 6. Andy Gravish Ensemble - Night Dreamer 04:15 7. Jean-Michel Pilc Ensemble - Dirge 05:09 8. Dave Pietro Ensemble - Darn That Dream 06:32 9. Dave Pietro Ensemble - Sweet Time Suite 06:54 10. Ben Allison Ensemble - East Of The Sun 06:59 11. Dave Pietro Ensemble - Adam's Apple 07:27