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Bob Quaranta
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Bob Quaranta received a BM in music theory from the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts. For over ten years, he was a member of Mongo Santamaría's band and also served as musical director. Two of the recordings Bob appeared on with Mongo were nominated for Grammy Awards: "Mongo Magic" and "Free Spirit/Espíritu Libre". Quaranta has also performed and/or recorded with: Dave Valentin, Willie Colón, Ray Barretto, Tommy Igoe, Angel Canales, Andrea Brachfeld and Jellybean Benitez.
With Ed Soph, Horacee Arnold, John Scofield, and Tom Barney he recorded on the Yamaha instructional video The Drumset, A Musical Approach. Quaranta has also recorded a piano disk for the Yamaha Disklavier. He also appears on Hudson Music's "Drummers Collective 25th Anniversary Celebration & Bass Day 2002" DVD and CD.
Prog vs. Fusion: A War of the Ages
By Ed Palermo
Label: Sky Cat Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Resolution; Black Hole Sun/Bodhisattva; There Comes A Time; Tarkus; Vrooom; Long Distance Runaround; Snake Oil; There's No Mystery About My G-Spot; Spanish G-Spot Tornado; Mystic Knights Of The Sea; On The Milky Way Express; Take A Pebble; One Word; The Fish; Fred; Black Hole Sun; Pictures Of A City.
Ed Palermo: Prog vs. Fusion: A War of the Ages
by Jack Bowers
Well, if it walks like a big band and talks like a big band...chances are it's a big band, even though, in the case of Ed Palermo's New York-based 18-piece ensemble, it neither walks nor talks much like any other big band on planet earth. On Prog Vs. Fusion, Palermo casts aside many established harmonic principles ...
I've Got News For You: The Music of Edgar Winter
By Ed Palermo
Label: Sky Cat Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: I Hate Everybody;
Tobacco Road;
Peace Pipe;
All Out;
A Different Game;
Dying to Live;
Jump Right Out;
Entrance;
Where Have You Gone;
Rise to Fall;
Fire and Ice;
Hung Up;
Back in the Blues;
Re-Entrance;
You Are My Sunshine;
I've Got News For You.
The Great Un-American Songbook Vol. III: Run for Your Life
By Ed Palermo
Label: Sky Cat
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. Within You Without You (Part 1) (The Beatles) / Stop Stop Stop (The Hollies);
2. Run for Your Life (The Beatles);
3. Strawberry Fields Forever (The Beatles) / Shove It Right In (Frank Zappa);
4. Glad (Traffic);
5. And Your Bird Can Sing (The Beatles);
6. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (The Beatles);
7. Within You Without You (Part 2) (The Beatles);
8. Come Together (The Beatles) / Chunga's Revenge (Frank Zappa);
9. Something in the Air (Thunderclap Newman);
10. Let's Move to Cleveland (Frank Zappa) / Fixing a Hole (The Beatles);
11. Nothing is Easy (Jethro Tull);
12. A Salty Dog (Procol Harum);
13. Shine on Brightly (Procol Harum);
14. Nights in White Satin (The Moody Blues) / Moggio (Frank Zappa).
Guitarist Tommaso Costa Debuts with “Too Far, Too Close”
For his 2019 debut Too Far, Too Close, Costa combines electric jazz, rock, and blues into his own guitar sound with European sophistication and style that resonates from his homeland of Italy. “My favorite thing is the sound of the record," Costa explains. “It's got a great modern tone with a vintage feel." Too ...
Ed Palermo: Not Only In It For The Money
by Duncan Heining
It's been twenty years since saxophonist-composer-arranger Ed Palermo and his Big Band began playing the music of Frank Zappa. Twenty years, not a lot of bread but a whole lot of love from fans and musicians alike. Oh No! Not Jazz!! on Cuneiform Records marks the band's fourth Zappa album and the third for that remarkable ...
Andrea Brachfeld: Lady of the Island
by Edward Blanco
Flautist Andrea Brachfeld has always professed an affinity for jazz and, though her background clearly demonstrates varied musical tastes, she has always been a hard bop musician at the core. Lady of the Island is the realization of a dream where the music selected reflects the jazz styles that tugs at her heart the most. Begun ...
