Results for "Charles Ruggiero"

Charles Ruggiero & Hilary Gardner: Play The Bird And The Bee

by Dan Bilawsky
June 15, 2019

If you've encountered drummer Charles Ruggiero's debut, Boom Bang, Boom Bang! (Rondette Jazz, 2014), you might've seen this coming. There, in the penultimate spot on the playlist, is a cover of The Bird and the Bee's “I'm A Broken Heart" featuring vocalist Hilary Gardner. Something of an outlier on the album, it hinted at a great ...

Birthday Celebrations for Shirley Horn and Judy Collins

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 10, 2019

This broadcast celebrates songs about birds in the second hour plus birthday songbirds Judy Collins (who just turned 80) and the legendary Shirley Horn. New releases included vocalists Kalya Ramu, Holly Cole, Laurie Antonioli, Charles Ruggiero & Hilary Gardner, bassist Anne Mette Iversen, pianists Amina Figarova and Eric Reed, with more birthday shout outs to Bing ...

Charles Ruggiero & Hilary Gardner Play The Bird and the Bee

Label: SmallsLIVE
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. Meteor 2. F*cking Boyfriend 3. Lovey Dovey 4. You're a Cad 5. Come As You Were 6. Diamond Dave 7. The Races 8. 4th of July

Jeremy Manasia Trio: Metamorphosis

by Jack Bowers
April 26, 2016

The Jeremy Manasia Trio: new names one and all in this neighborhood save for the gentleman who makes the trio a quartet, guitarist Peter Bernstein. As it turns out, pianist Manasia, a native of Staten Island, has been a mainstay on the New York jazz scene since he returned from Europe in 1997, and Metamorphosis is ...

Boom Bang, Boom Bang!

By Charles Ruggiero

Label: Rondette Jazz
Released: 2015
Track listing: Little Green Men; Waltz for B; The One Step; Elmhurst; I'm A Broken Heart; Liftoff.

As Heard On TV

By Charles Ruggiero

Label: Rondette Jazz
Released: 2015

Charles Ruggiero Releases "As Heard On TV"

October 7, 2015

Rondette Jazz announces second solo album from drummer Charles Ruggiero, As Heard On TV. On October 16, As Heard On TV will be available through Rondette Jazz on CD and via digital download on iTunes. Limited edition vinyl will also be available. A CD release party will be held Friday, October 9 at Smalls Jazz Club ...

Charles Ruggiero: Boom Bang, Boom Bang!

by Edward Blanco
March 5, 2015

Though jazz drummer Charles Ruggiero has made many recordings as a sideman over the last twenty-five years, he makes his long-awaited debut with Boom Bang, Boom Bang!, paying a tribute of sorts to Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, two of his favorite jazz artists. Growing up with the sounds of the flute and the Fender Rhodes, ...

Boom Bang, Boom Bang!

By Charles Ruggiero

Label: Rondette Jazz
Released: 2014

Jeremy Manasia: Pixel Queen

by Dan Bilawsky
April 26, 2014

Pixel Queen is the third record to document the musical relationship that pianist Jeremy Manasia has with bassist Barak Mori and drummer Charles Ruggiero. Manasia's debut leader date--Witchery (Cellar Live, 2007)--featured a different rhythm crew, but this bass-and-drums team came aboard for After Dark (Posi-Tone, 2009), a pleasing trio-with-guests outing, and stayed for Green Dream (Cellar ...