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Rush Life

Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2009
Track listing: Squazin; Chipewha; I Remember Clifford; Flat 5 Flat 9; On Green Dolphin Street; Rush Life; Riverdale; Prince of Newark; Without a Song.

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News: Recording

Motema Music Recording Artist Antonio Ciacca Releases "Lagos Blues" January 12

Motema Music Recording Artist Antonio Ciacca Releases "Lagos Blues" January 12

Internationally Acclaimed Pianist Antonio Ciacca Collaborates with Renowned Saxophonist Steve Grossman Motema Music Set to Release Lagos Blues on January 12 “At the heart of any true jazzman is the ability to tell his own musical stories in his own way, and hopefully touch a few hearts along the way. Down in his heart, there's a ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Antonio Ciacca's Harlem Jazz Collective Performs at Minton's Playhouse

Antonio Ciacca's Harlem Jazz Collective Performs at Minton's Playhouse

Jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader Antonio Ciacca will lead a new musical consortium, The Harlem Jazz Collective, in performances every Saturday night in December at Minton's Playhouse. The concerts, showcasing new compositions as well as time-honored classics, feature an ever-rotating ensemble with Mr. Ciacca serving as the core artist. The music begins at 10:00 p.m. with ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Antonio Ciacca Quartet in Lagos Blues

Antonio Ciacca Quartet in Lagos Blues

Antonio Ciacca Quartet will play in Lagos Blues On October 16, 2009. Ciacca began his career as a sideman for such acclaimed jazz artists as Art Farmer, James Moody, Lee Konitz, Johnny Griffin, Mark Murphy, Dave Liebman, Steve Grossman, who he cites as his mentor and with whom he studied for three years beginning in 1990. ...

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News: Festival

Barcelona International Jazz Festival 2009 Complete Roster!

Here is the complete schedule for the 41 Voll-Damm Barcelona International Jazz Festival, opening on October 28th with Wayne Shorter Quartet, and closing at the NYC’s Jazz Standard with four very special nights (December 3rd to 6th), featuring Chano Dominguez Quinteto Flamenco. Watch the video! Concerts Sunday, October 18th Celebrating Blue Note ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Jacksonville: Big City, Big Band, Big Plans

Read "Jacksonville: Big City, Big Band, Big Plans" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Almost everyone who's even mildly interested knows that the big band scene in the US isn't what it used to be. On the other hand, the big bands aren't yet dead, as some alarmists have claimed, or even on life support. Thanks in part to college and armed services programs, there are perhaps as many or ...

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News: Interview

Pianist Antonio Ciacca Interviewed at AAJ

Pianist Antonio Ciacca Interviewed at AAJ

Antonio Ciacca knows a thing or two about multi-tasking. The New York-based pianist is a tireless statesman of jazz, composing music for his own small groups, arranging for various big bands and working as Director of Programming for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Adding to all of this, Ciacca and his wife are busy raising five children ...

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Article: Interview

Antonio Ciacca: Bringing People Together Through Swing

Read "Antonio Ciacca: Bringing People Together Through Swing" reviewed by John Barron


Antonio Ciacca knows a thing or two about multi-tasking. The New York-based pianist is a tireless statesman of jazz, composing music for his own small groups, arranging for various big bands and working as Director of Programming for Jazz at Lincoln Center. Adding to all of this, Ciacca and his wife are busy raising five children ...

Album

Rush Life

Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Squazin; Chipewha; I Remember Clifford; Flat 5 Flat 9; On Green Dolphin Street; Rush Life; Riverdale; Prince of Newark; Without a Song.

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Article: Album Review

Antonio Ciacca: Rush Life

Read "Rush Life" reviewed by John Barron


Italian pianist Antonio Ciacca is the kind of musician who displays his influences without reservation.  Steeped in the tradition of bebop and gospel piano, the New York resident is focused on swinging as hard as he can.  Evidence of this can be heard on Rush Life, a hard-blowing quintet recording with tenor saxophonist Stacy Dillard, trumpeter ...


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