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Don Aliquo
Steeped in Pittsburgh’s rich jazz tradition, saxophonist Don Aliquo grew up listening to and learning from jazz legends. Following in the footsteps of his father, a well-respected jazz artist himself, Don spent his formative years performing with many of the region’s greats including Joe Harris, Danny Conn Johnny Costa, David Budway, and Jeff Watts. His musical development continued at the Berklee College of Music, where he played in the International Dues Band directed by Phil Wilson. George Garzone, Joe Viola, Ed Tomasi and John La Porta were instrumental in his artistic growth at Berklee.
Don’s early professional career included tours as lead alto with the Tommy Dorsey Band directed by Buddy Morrow, and as a baritone saxophonist with the legendary drummer Buddy Rich. He also toured extensively with the East Coast R & B group, Billy Price and the Keystone Rhythm Band, recording, writing horn arrangements, and performing as a soloist.
After these expanding and maturing experiences, Don’s career took two crucial turns. He began performing and recording with Roger Humphries, the legendary Horace Silver drummer, while furthering his musical development at Duquesne University.
Under the direction of master-composer John “Doc” Wilson, Don completed a master’s degree in performance summa cum laude, discovered a love for teaching as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, and earned multiple honors and awards.
Shadows of Tomorrow
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: AG’s Resting Face…Scary!!!; Sultry Villa Mella Twilights; Brad’s Dreamy Samana Night;
Illusions, Delusions…A Glimmer of Hope; Movement I: The Wizard’s Wicked Charm; Movement
II: Liars and Fools; Movement III: The Mold-Breaker (Bringer of Joy).
Tenor Madness
By Ryan Middagh
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Wiley Roots; Waiter, Make Mine Blues; Tenor Madness; Cry Me a River; This Time the Dream’s
on Me; Wired.
Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra: Tenor Madness
by Jack Bowers
Nashville-based composer, arranger and saxophonist Ryan Middagh salutes apostles of the mid-range wind instrument on Tenor Madness, his second recording as leader of the Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra. Even so, there are no tenor solos after the first three of the album's half-dozen numbers, on which tenors Don Aliquo and Jeff Coffin ("Wiley Roots"), Aliquo again ...
Romance In The Dark
By Diane Marino
Label: M&M Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Out Of This World; Trust in Me; Romance in the Dark; The Jazz in You; You Don't Know What
Love Is; So In Love; Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye; Speaking of Happiness; I Love You More
Than You'll Ever Know; Yes, I'm Ready
Out Of This World
Album: Romance In The Dark
By Diane Marino
Label: M&M Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 04:04
Diane Marino: Romance In The Dark
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Romance in the Dark, from highly-versatile vocalist-pianist-arranger Diane Marino and a team of Nashville's top studio players, offers 10 entertaining selections. Comprised of covers of well-known standards and classic soul material (with a handful-plus being remixed and remastered from the vocalist's previously released recordings), it is a thoroughly enjoyable and, yes, romantic effort. ...
Growth
By Don Aliquo
Label: Ear Up Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Salt and Light; Woman Clothed in the Sun, Lower Broadway Rundown, Growth, Pedal Taverns, For the Vulnerable, Naked Statues, Blues for Duffy and Doug
Judith Owens, Earl Bostic & Don Aliquo
by Joe Dimino
From Nashville-based, Pittsburgh-bred saxophonist Don Aliquo, we kick off this new 793rd Episode of Neon Jazz with a song off his 2023 album Growth. From there, we listen to the artist who gave Don one of his most memorable performances when he was a lad in Arnie Lawrence. We also hear new music from Holly Burke, ...
Don Aliquo: Growth
by Jack Bowers
On Growth, his eighth album as a leader, it is said that Nashville-based saxophonist Don Aliquo “pushes past his established comfort zone and into more precarious and challenging improvisational territory." While that may well be true, another truism is that the harmonic vocabulary of contemporary jazz has remained essentially unchanged for more than eight decades, and ...
