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Cynthia Sayer

by Robert Spencer
May 1, 2001

Time was when every self-respecting jazz band had a banjoist. The legendary Johnny St. Cyr did duty in both Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers and Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, and he was just the preeminent member of a hearty and considerable band. Listen to the banjo breaks on those great early sides, and you get ...

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April Kisses

By Bucky Pizzarelli

Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2000

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Bucky Pizzarelli: April Kisses

by Mike Neely
August 1, 2000

Bucky Pizzarelli's April Kisses opens a door to a musical era when the jazz guitar was a solo and duet instrument of lively refinement. This is the pre-electric, pre-Charlie Christian era of Eddie Lang, Carl Kress, Django Reinhardt, and George Van Eps. Pizzarelli follows Van Eps' innovation of adding a bass string to his guitar which ...

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Bucky Pizzarelli: April Kisses

by David Adler
January 1, 2000

The acoustic guitar of Bucky Pizzarelli is not that of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan, nor that of John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, and Lenny Breau. It is the acoustic archtop guitar of little-known early jazzers such as Dick McDonough, Eddie Lang, Carl Kress, and George Van Eps. On this beautiful session, not only is there no ...

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Contrasts

By Bucky Pizzarelli

Label: Arbors Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Three Little Words, Coquette, Jersey Bounce, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Minute Samba, Contrasts, Test Pilot, I Hadn't Anyone Till You/The Very Thought of You, The Devil and The Deep Blue Sea, Two Funky People, Stage Fright, Phantasmagoria, My Romance, Emily, Guess I'll Go Back Home This Summer, For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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Bucky and John Pizzarelli: Contrasts

by C. Michael Bailey
March 1, 1999

Coincidence. This disc crossed my desk at the same time as the latest issue of Jazz Notes, which has a book review of Terrance Ripmaster's biography of Bucky Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli: A Life in Music.. The father and son Pizzarelli, both having successful performing careers apart from one another, have again joined to record a duet ...

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Solo Flight

By Bucky Pizzarelli

Label: Chesky Records
Released: 1986

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Originals

By Jon Faddis

Label: Stash Budget
Released: 1980
Track listing: Early Summer; Hormone; Ballade; Wick Dippers; Interface; Elling-Stray Lament; All Right; Ike And Mike;

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