Results for "Ernesto Diaz"

Ernesto Diaz

Live at the Pump House/Celebrating Wayne Shorter

By Dan Moretti

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Black Nile; Fee Fi Fo Fum; Night Dreamer; Speak No Evil; Witch Hunt; Yes or No; Oriental Folk Song; Footprints.

Dan Moretti and Brazilia: Live at the Pump House/Celebrating Wayne Shorter

by Jack Bowers
May 7, 2025

While everyone has ideas, some ideas are admittedly better than others. Saxophonist Dan Moretti and Brazilia's notion to salute the music of Wayne Shorter by reshaping and Latinizing eight of the legendary saxophonist's splendid compositions was a good idea. Doubters need only survey the finished product, recorded in front of an enthusiastic audience in December 2024 ...

Relentless

By Fernando Huergo

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2024
Track listing: Consciousness of Reality; Ornette; Vidalita; Panorama; La Vida Sigue; Relentless; Deluge; Modernities; Blues Sureno; The Illusion of Hope; Groove Odds.

Fernando Huergo: Relentless

by Jack Bowers
September 26, 2024

Argentine-born bassist and composer Fernando Huergo's heavy-duty Massachusetts-based big band delivers the goods on Relentless, a taut and vibrant review of oppression, discrimination, environmental challenges and other social issues, interwoven with Huergo's lively tribute to the saxophonist Ornette Coleman and a charismatic and thought-provoking survey ("La Vida Sigue") on life after the Covid-19 pandemic, with all ...

The Next Stage

By Daniel Ian Smith

Label: Big and Phat Jazz Productions
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Next Stage; The T and the Charles - Homage to Jimmy Giuffre; Funkissimo; No Answers, More Questions; Turnaround; Scrooge; Lydian Legacy, part one - Homage to George Russell; Lydian Legacy, part two - Homage to George Russell; Dances with Drums; Elegy for Jeff.

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 ...

New World Jazz Composers Octet: Breaking News

by Hrayr Attarian
December 2, 2011

Established in 2000, in the spirit of the Mingus Jazz Workshop, the New World Jazz Composer's Octet sounds more like an orchestra than a group of eight musicians. On its third release, Breaking News, the octet showcases six contemporary composers affiliated with the ensemble. The music is intricate and well-constructed, with hints of ...

New World Jazz Composers Octet: Breaking News

by Andrew J. Sammut
November 30, 2011

The New World Jazz Composers Octet thrives on the old school idea of jazz composition as conduit to great jazz performance, and its third album, Breaking News, puts theory to practice from the outset with Matthew Nicholl's “Poco Picasso." The jutting melodic angles and tightly orchestrated front line arrest on their own merits, while also spurring ...