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Dave Zinno

Dave Zinno studied at Berklee College and at the University of Rhode Island. He studied bass with Bill Piacitelli, Gary Peacock, and Walter Booker, Jr. and has performed with Dianne Schurr. He lived in New York City for ten years, where he performed with Jimmy Cobb, John Medeski, Larry Willis, Sonny Fortune and others. He played in the Broadway pit orchestra for Sugar Babies and An Evening with Michael Feinstein. He also wrote, produced and performed music for national advertising campaigns and is currently teaching at the University of Rhode Island and Brown University. Recent recordings include Un (Rope a Dope Records), BTYZ and Man on a Bridge, among others.

Fetish

By Dave Zinno

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2021
Track listing: Fetish; Out of the Hole; Unknown Mystery; The Golden Age; So Close So Far; Beatriz; Future History; Melancholy Daydream; Over the Horizon; Into the Whole; Nile; Meu Fraco e Cafe Forte.

Dave Zinno: Fetish

by Rob Rosenblum
November 29, 2021

While it is obvious that bassist Dave Zinno put a lot of thought into the writing and arrangements here, it is the quality of solo performances that gives this album its worthy distinction. Some may be familiar with pianist Tim Ray from his inclusion in the trio backing one of altoist Greg Abate's albums and his ...

Dave Zinno Unisphere: Fetish

by Jack Bowers
September 26, 2021

Dave Zinno's New York-based Unisphere is a quintet/sometime sextet that is rhythmically sound, melodically smooth and anchored by his assertive bass lines. The group employs a splendid two-horn front line (tenor saxophonist Mike Tucker, trumpeter Eric Benny Bloom) and adds a third, trombonist/arranger Rafael Rocha, on the freewheeling closer, “Meu Fraco e Cafe Forte" (in English, ...

2 Cents

By Douglas Olsen

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Tailwind; 2 Cents; Algo Bueno; Rat-Race; Miles Rumba; Critical Mass; Boperation; Una Para Ti; Passage.

Douglas Olsen: 2 Cents

by Jack Bowers
November 21, 2020

What seems at first blush to be a nonet on this splendid new album is actually trumpeter Douglas Olsen's core quartet, amplified on various selections by talented guests who raise the number anywhere from a quintet to an octet. Even though Olsen has been a super-busy free-lancer on the New England jazz scene for more than ...

Larry Fuller, Kendrick Scott & More

by Joe Dimino
July 8, 2019

This week we open with veteran jazz bassist and long-time educator Dave Zinno with music off his newest CD Stories Told. Then we profile the Iowa-based group Heartland Trio and dig the sounds of the Detroit Tenors. From there, we get into some new jazz from Jeff Pifher, Warren Galea and Jan Geijtenbeek. We look into ...

Christine Fawson: Sings Jazz

by Jack Bowers
December 6, 2018

Christine Fawson: a singer who plays trumpet or a trumpeter who sings? Flip a coin. Fawson carries out both assignments to good effect on her new CD but, considering its title, Sings Jazz, she seems to bend toward to former. Whatever the case, this much can be affirmed: Fawson is a performer who must be seen ...

AGNZ: Chance Meeting

by Jack Bowers
September 28, 2016

Before proceeding, a word about the name of this admirable quartet: AGNZ (jazz from A to Z?) comprises the first letter in the last names of its four members--guitarist Jay Azzolina, tenor saxophonist Dino Govoni, drummer Adam Nussbaum and bassist Dave Zinno. It further denotes, presumably, a certain level of parity, a selflessness and camaraderie among ...