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Groove Machine
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Three Sided; Space Madness; Hot Dog; Lemon Rind; Along The Southern Coast; Calypso Blue; Ironicity; Brother Elijah.
Charlie Apicella: Groove Machine
by Don Phipps
On Groove Machine, Charlie Apicalla & Iron City serves up a gumbo of styles that run from New Orleans blues and Chicago funk to Motown and New York bop. The combination makes for a “groovy" listening experience—road music that will keep the head nodding and the mind trucking. Apicella penned five of the eight numbers on ...
Payin' The Cost To Be The Boss: a tribute to BB King
Label: CArlo Music Records
Released: 2016
Big Boss
Label: Zoho Music
Released: 2014
Track listing: I Hear A Symphony; Idris; In The Grass; Big Boss; Spoonful; Amalfi; The Selma March; Sunday Mornin'.
Charlie Apicella & Iron City: Big Boss
by Dan Bilawsky
Thank god for groove music. In an era when needless complexity often dominates, it's nice to encounter a throwback record that's built on feel-good rhythms and soulful declarations. That's what Big Boss is all about. Sparks (Carlo, 2009) set things in motion for this band, as guitarist-leader Charlie Apicella planted his flag in ...
The Business
Label: Carlo Music
Released: 2011
Track listing: The Business; 64 Cadillac; Donny Brook; Ironicity; Can't Help Falling In
Love; Cantaloupe Woman; Blue String; The Shaw Shuffle; Stanley's Time.
Charlie Apicella & Iron City: The Business
by Edward Blanco
Guitarist Charlie Apicella & Iron City get down to the gritty business of delivering variations of funk and soul jazz on The Business, a well-crafted, vibrant grind of guitar-organ sounds supported by percussion and saxophone voices in an exciting quintet format. Though Apicella's playing style has been compared to that of Wes Montgomery, he also has ...
Charlie Apicella and Iron City - The Business (2011)
There's an irresistible swagger to old-fashioned, grease-popping soul jazz records, something so far removed in this hidebound era of button-down classicists. Everything about it—the left-hand blasts of organ, the scrappy guitar riffs, the flame-kissed sax retorts—just says: Party. Charlie Apicella and Iron City's The Business, newly issued by CArlo Records, is no different. From the initial ...
Iron City: The Business
by Glenn Astarita
Guitarist Charlie Apicella and his band mates mix it up nicely with these originals and jazz standards, disavowing a rough-hewn presence and sporting a piquant mode of execution. The artists morph a somewhat traditional blue collar approach to the classic organ-combo into a contemporized product. The band may not 't reinvent the genre, but the diverse ...
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