Results for "Dan Monaghan"

I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles

By Hailey Brinnel

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. Orange Colored Sky [6:20] (Milton DeLugg & Wille Stein) 2. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles [4:27] (John Kellette & Jaan Kenbrovin) 3. Give Me The Simple Life [4:11] (Rube Bloom & Harry Ruby) 4. Stardust [7:45] (Hoagy Carmichael & Mitchell Parish) 5. Easy to Love  [3:03] (Cole Porter) 6. What's The Use of Getting Sober [5:38] (Busby Meyers) 7. You Go to My Head [3:40] (J. Fred Coots & Haven Gillespie) 8. Show Me The Way to Go Home [4:23] (James Campbell & Reginald Connelly)

Stretching Supreme

By Dave Wilson

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: A Love Supreme: Intro to Part 1, Acknowledgement; Part 1, Acknowledgement; Part 2, Resolution; On the Prairie; Days of Wine and Roses; Dear Lord; Naima.

Norman David: Forty-Year Wizard of The Eleventet

by Victor L. Schermer
August 4, 2021

A few years ago, a musician friend suggested I go hear a band that was playing at a place in Bella Vista, Philadelphia, a neighborhood with a significant jazz history (violinist Joe Venuti and guitarist Eddie Lang lived there and are honored with several plaques and a mural) -but not much current music to speak of. ...

Tom Tallitsch: Message

by David A. Orthmann
March 28, 2021

There is hard bop DNA in tenor and soprano saxophonist Tom Tallitsch's twelfth record as a leader, the third consecutive release for his TT Productions imprint. While it is always tempting to start making comparisons to classic sides from the genre, or to simply dismiss recognizable sounds as old hat in a world bursting with new ...

Zipline

January 29, 2021

Album: Message
By Tom Tallitsch
Label: TT Productions
Released: 2021
Duration: 06:50

Mary Ellen Desmond: Comfort and Joy 2020 Virtual Stream

by Victor L. Schermer
December 19, 2020

Mary Ellen Desmond Comfort and Joy: Virtual Stream Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany Philadelphia, PA December 13, 2020 In the course of two decades as a jazz reviewer in Philadelphia, it has often been my pleasure to hear Mary Ellen Desmond sing, and for ...

Susie Meissner: I Wish I Knew

by C. Michael Bailey
September 8, 2020

Over the past decade and three previous recordings, Philadelphia-based vocalist Susie Meissner has crafted an intelligently conceived and thoughtfully paced survey of the Great American Songbook. Meissner's considerations of the standard jazz repertoire, in concert with pianist John Shaddy's sturdy arrangements and educated performance manner, have emerged, evolving from chaste and reverent beginnings, into rich and ...

Susie Meissner: Tea for Two

by C. Michael Bailey
September 3, 2020

Natural but determined evolution makes for well conceived and produced projects. Vocalist Susie Meissner has proved this statement as she progressed from her debut recording I'll Remember April (Lydian Jazz, 2009), through her sophomore effort, I'm Confessin' (Lydian Jazz, 2011) to the present Tea for Two. Using a well-worn repertoire, Meissner, mostly with the support of ...

Tom Lawton: Not Less Than Everything

by Victor L. Schermer
July 8, 2020

Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always-- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) --T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets; “Little Gidding" This poetic quotation ...

Dan Monaghan

Mansfield, PA, native Dan Monaghan is one of the busiest drummers in the Philadelphia area. After studying classical percussion for eight years he went on to earn a Bachelors of Music in jazz studies from Temple University. Since then he has performed with some of the top names in jazz, including Eric Alexander, Peter Bernstein, Uri Caine, and Randy Brecker. In addition, he has recorded with Dick Oatts, Garry Dial, Joe Magnarelli, Jimmy Bruno, Elio Villafranca, Joanna Pascale, John Vanore & Abstract Truth, Larry McKenna, Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord, Norman David, Tom Tallitsch, Mike Kennedy, and many others.