Results for "Dave Riekenberg"

Dave Riekenberg

A Blue Time

By Joe Syrian

Label: Circle 9 Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Jordu; Agua De Beber; Teach Me Tonight; Norwegian Wood; Black Magic Woman; Charade; Blue Bossa; Nature Boy; Sway; A Blue Time.

Reunion

By Chris Parker

Label: Circle 9
Released: 2026
Track listing: Emmy’s Shuffle; Say It Again; Just a Thought; Stages; Been This Way Before; Left at Bingen; Reunion; Stand Back; Boonchaka; Hymn; To You (for Teresia); One for CB.

Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet: A Blue Time

by Jack Bowers
June 10, 2026

Drummer Joe Syrian's spit-shined Motor City Jazz Octet keeps driving emphatically forward on its second recording, A Blue Time, using an impressive arsenal to scurry through a generally agreeable lineup of more or less familiar themes that have been given fresh coats of paint by seven astute and talented arrangers. Even with the various ...

Chris Parker Septet: Reunion

by Jack Bowers
March 30, 2026

This is a Reunion that Chris Parker was lucky to celebrate. In August 2023, eight months after recording his fifth album as leader and while vacationing in his native Oregon, Parker suffered a serious stroke that left him (temporarily) unable to walk or use his left hand when playing the piano. Before that misfortune struck, Parker ...

Mixed Bag

By Pete McGuinness

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: From This Moment On; Rebecca; The Dark Hours; Lilac Blues; Down the Rabbit Hole; Body and Soul; So in Love; Django; ‘Round Midnight; The Sly Fox (in Memory of Bill Holman); Where Do You Start?

Pete McGuinness: Mixed Bag

by Pierre Giroux
June 12, 2025

With Mixed Bag, Pete McGuinness once again affirms his place among the elite of modern big band composers and arrangers, presenting a luminous tapestry of jazz idioms that ranges from the exuberantly traditional to the adventurously modern. As the title suggests, the album is a delightful potpourri. However, rather than feeling scattered or unfocused, McGuinness weaves ...

The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: Mixed Bag

by Jack Bowers
June 4, 2025

Award-winning arranger Pete McGuinness has chosen to name the fourth recording by his stellar New York-based Jazz Orchestra Mixed Bag, a term whose meaning may be construed as positive or less so, depending on the context. As he explains in the album's liner notes, McGuinness accentuates the positive, writing that to him, “Variety has always been ...

Smile

By Bill Warfield

Label: Planet Arts Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Smile; Cucumber Slumber; Hip-Hug-Her; Ode To Billie Joe; First Time On A Ferris Wheel; Dance of the Coal Cars; Mad Dog; Rainbow Connection; I’ve Got To Use My Imagination; Theme From Law and Order; This City Never Sleeps; Smile

Bill Warfield and the Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra: Smile

by Jack Bowers
June 21, 2020

Having no idea what to expect from an ensemble labeled the Hell's Kitchen Funk Orchestra, the game plan must be to advance with caution, as any orchestra with trumpeter Bill Warfield at the helm can't be all bad. After listening, it becomes clear that the game plan was sound and the premise accurate: Smile, the HKFO's ...