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Dave Pietro: Embrace: Impressions of Brazil
by C. Michael Bailey
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. ...
Dave Pietro and Banda Brazil: Embrace-ing Cultures
by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
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 ...
Ben Monder: Le Monde du Monder
by Phil DiPietro
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 ...
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
Dave Pietro: Standard Wonder: The Music of Stevie Wonder
by Dave Nathan
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 ...
Dave Pietro: Now Becoming Then
by Glenn Astarita
Now Becoming Then is saxophonist-composer, Dave Pietro’s third release for Dutch-basedA-Records. Pietro is a smooth operator whether performing on soprano, alto or C-melody saxophones which is very much evident from the opening seconds of the breezy and tightly arranged title track, “Now Becoming Then”. Here, Pietro’s crisp, fluent and melodic phrasing on alto-sax rides atop a ...
