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Article: Big Band Caravan

Vaughn Wiester / Doncaster Jazz Orchestra / Kluvers Big Band / Mike Holober & the Gotham Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
March 1, 2009

Vaughn Wiester's Famous Jazz Orchestra Dreams Come True COJazz 2009 If you're going to dream, you may as well dream big, in glorious Technicolor with stereophonic sound. As Vaughn Wiester knows, there are times when Dreams Come True. Wiester's vision of leading his own big band is a ...

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The Chakra Suite

By Dave Pietro

Label: Milestone Records
Released: 2008

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Thought Trains

By Mike Holober

Label: Sons of Sound
Released: 2004
Track listing: Jump Down Spin Around, Big Sky, Waltz Medium, Thought Trains, Form x Mood, Let's Get Nice, Heart of the Matter, I Can See My Desk From Here

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Embrace: Impressions of Brazil

By Dave Pietro

Label: a/l/l
Released: 2004
Track listing: Never Nothing; Equanimity; Interlude #1; The Scene Between Two Unseens; Canto Triste; Cururu; Interlude #2 Remembrance; Interlude #3; And So It Is; Hamartia; Embrace; Choro Bandido.

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Article: Album Review

Dave Pietro: Embrace: Impressions of Brazil

Read "Embrace: Impressions of Brazil" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
April 3, 2004

Dave Pietro follows his successful tribute to Stevie Wonder, Standard Wonder, with an hommage to the music of Brazil"" Embrace. This recording is a little-big-band recording of basically images of Brazil according to Mr. Pietro. The seeds of this recording were planted when Pietro was on tour in South America with the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra. ...

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Article: Nite & Disk

Dave Pietro and Banda Brazil: Embrace-ing Cultures

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
March 27, 2004

I just love a band that grins. Like Whitney Balliett, I see jazz as the sound of surprise -- preferably a delightful one -- and I don't believe that serious music has to be made with long faces. Banda Brazil was grinning like mad the other night at the Cornelia Street Cafe, even though the six ...

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Article: Interview

Ben Monder: Le Monde du Monder

by Phil DiPietro
January 1, 2002

With a fittingly well-documented career, boasting a range of stunning appearances on over 50 recordings, including 14 since the year 2000, Ben Monder has solidified his position as one of the finest players of his generation. A chordal and textural master, unafraid to thoroughly explore advanced harmonic concepts, Ben's appearance on a sideman date ...

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Standard Wonder: The Music of Stevie Wonder

By Dave Pietro

Label: a/l/l
Released: 2001
Track listing: Too High; All in Love Is Fair; Smile Please; Go Home; You and I-Interlude; The Secret of Plants; Contusion; Happier Than the Morning Sun; Visions; Another Star; Overjoyed; Come Back as a Flower

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Dave Pietro: Standard Wonder: The Music of Stevie Wonder

Read "Standard Wonder: The Music of Stevie Wonder" reviewed by Dave Nathan

by Dave Nathan
November 1, 2001

Songs composed by Stevie Wonder have been part of jazz for years. But this is the first time I've come across a jazz album devoted entirely to the music of the Motown master of soul and related genre. Dave Pietro, lead sax with Toshiko Akiyoshi's Jazz Orchestra, allots all the time on his 4th CD to ...

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