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Don Messina
I met Lennie Tristano in 1973, while accompanying a friend to his weekly lessons. I did this about a dozen times over a few months. I was 17, the same year I started to play the double bass and it was after I heard a recording of the Metronome All-Stars featuring Charlie Parker and Lennie that I decided I wanted to be a jazz bassist. Since then I have been a devoted admirer and fan of Lennie’s music and his teaching as well as the beautiful music of Bird, Prez, Billie Holiday, Sal Mosca, Bud Powell, Fats Navarro, Roy Eldridge, Warne Marsh, Lee Konitz, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Pettiford, Jimmy Blanton, Charlie Christian, Art Tatum, Django, Wes Montgomery, Max Roach, and Kenny Clarke. I spent the next 5 years traveling and playing music, ultimately realizing that I needed to study. In September of 1978 I called Lennie to take lessons. He told me he would get back to me; unfortunately, Lennie died weeks later in November, 1978.
Jon Easton with Don Messina & Bill Chattin
By Jon Easton
Label: Cadence Jazz Records
Released: 2013
The Dance
Label: New Artists Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: My Melancholy Baby;
What Is This Thing Called Love?;
Follow;
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To;
Will I Find My Love Today;
Confirmation;
The Mirror Calls;
Kary's Trance.
Rich Peare: Blues For Peter
by Jack Kenny
There is a special kind of pleasure in sitting in a jazz club, listening to talented musicians use their skills to explore some of the finest melodies of the last sixty years. In their debut album, Blues for Peter, Rich Peare (classical guitar) and Don Messina (double bass) offer just that experience. The album features eight ...
The Song Poetry of Torhild Ostad and Kazzrie Jaxen
by Jakob Baekgaard
While many singers interpret songs, few elevate them into song poetry--a fusion of lyricism and phrasing that transcends genre. This rare quality emerges when voice, words, and musical interplay coalesce into something greater than the sum of their parts. It is a phenomenon found in the recent albums by Norwegian vocalist Torhild Ostad and pianist-singer Kazzrie ...
You Stepped Out Of A Dream
Album: Blues For Peter
By Rich Peare
Label: New Artists Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 06:00
Kary's Trance
Album: The Dance
By Kazzrie Jaxen
Label: New Artists Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 4:47
Blues For Peter
By Rich Peare
Label: New Artists Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Strike Up the Band; Don't Blame Me; It's You
or No One; Foolin Myself; You Stepped Out Of
A Dream; Blues For Peter; All of Me;
Yesterdays.
Never More Here
By Larry Bluth
Label: Fresh Sound Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Klactoveedsedstene; Sweet and Lovely; Sippin' at Bell's; A Ghost of a Chance; Yesterdays; Riverdale; Larry's Line; These Foolish Things; Sound-Lee
