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Bryan Beninghove: Organ Trio
by Edward Blanco
Organ Trio is Jersey City saxophonist/composer and bandleader Bryan Beninghove's debut self-titled album with his very able organ trio that performs regularly throughout the Jersey City/New York area. A rather busy band leader, Beninghove also leads the six-piece Big in Jersey light ensemble and the Bryan Beninghove & Hangmen Quintet. But it is his Organ Trio ...
Alexandra Caselli: Rough Edges
by Edward Blanco
A rather inappropriate title for an album that is seemingly flawless with no discernable rough edges heard, Rough Edges is another blazing effort from pianist Alexandra Caselli and a pleasing one at that. A classically-trained pianist who began playing the instrument at the age of six, Caselli begins to reveal the depth of that training on ...
Anna Maria Flechero: Within The Fourteenth Hour
by Edward Blanco
In October 2004, Anna Maria Flechero released her debut, Journey Into The Fourteenth Hour (Self Published), marking her comeback to the music scene after confronting a family crisis which detoured a promising musical journey that included leading her own Latin jazz ensemble and performing as a solo artist in Japan with the legendary pianist Cedar Walton. ...
CNY Jazz Orchestra: Then, Now & Again
by Edward Blanco
The Central New York Jazz Orchestra (CNYJO) is a sixteen-piece big band led by Musical Director Bret Zvacek, providing year-round concerts to the general public and performing in schools within the entire Upstate New York region. The musical arm of the CNY Jazz Arts Foundation (CNYJAF), a non profit educational organization established twelve years ago, Then, ...
The Stein Brothers Quintet: Quixotic
by Edward Blanco
The brotherly saxophone duo of Alex and Asher Stein makes its extraordinary record debut with the very boppish Quixotic, which surprisingly turns out to be one of the finest bop-infused albums of the year. Two young cubs--not quiet lions of jazz yet, but certainly on the way to earning that distinction, Alex plays the tenor with ...
Everybody's Got A Name
by Edward Blanco
Greg Chako Everybody's Got A Name Self Published 2008 Guitarist and composer Greg Chako is the consummate musician who, despite personal hardships in his life, dedicates himself to the art of jazz with every fiber of his being, producing one fine album after another. Everybody's Got a Name ...
Joao Gaspar: Camaleao Carioca
by Edward Blanco
Born with a love of music and a talent for the guitar, Brazilian guitarist and composer Joao Gaspar makes his instrumental debut with Camaleao Carioca, serving notice that there's a new young man on the strings that will not soon be forgetten. Offering original compositions with a variety of flavors, the music includes not only a ...
Paul Carr: Musically Yours
by Edward Blanco
Remembering one of the great tenor masters of jazz, saxophonist and educator Paul Carr pays homage to the late Joe Henderson by offering an artful session of hard-driving bop with his third album as a leader on Musically Yours. He borrows the title from Henderson, who once autographed an album that Carr brought with him to ...
Rich Wetzel and The Groovin Higher Jazz Orchestra: The Mayn Thing
by Edward Blanco
Rich Wetzel is a Holton-Leblanc trumpet artist, clinician, chairman of the Tacoma Jazz Festival and representative of Conn-Selmer, leading manufacturer and distributor of band and orchestral instruments. He is also the leader of the fourteen-piece Tacoma-based Groovin Higher Jazz Orchestra, which offers their third album and first studio recording, The Mayn Thing, in a tribute to ...
Vince Seneri: The Prince's Groove
by Edward Blanco
A masterful keyboardist who has been performing for over twenty years, Vince “The Prince" Seneri releases a scorcher of an album with The Prince's Groove, definitely one of the best jazz organ recordings around. Seneri, who was given the nickname by his peers, plays the Hammond B3 organ with a unique sound and style, making him ...
