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Frank Catalano Performs July 16 at NYC Jazz Standard to Celebrate CD Release

Savoy Jazz is thrilled to announce that tenor saxophonist Frank Catalano is the first artist to be signed to the label under an artist management agreement along with a multi-album contract. Frank Catalano joins the legendary independent label Savoy with an innovative management agreement under which the label will partner with the artist in every facet ...
Mighty Burner

Label: Bright
Released: 2006
Track listing: Mighty Burner; Love Bugaloo; Tuna Town; Burner
Frank Catalano: Mighty Burner

by Jim Santella
Recorded live at Chicago's Green Mill and Edgewater Lounge, Mighty Burner pays homage to organist Charles Earland, with whom saxophonist Frank Catalano worked from 1995-99. Earland, who died of a heart attack at age 58 on December 11, 1999, mentored younger jazz artists during his final years. Catalano, 27, was one of those younger artists who ...
Frank Catalano: Mighty Burner

by Mark Corroto
If I were a saxophonist, I certainly would want to be Maceo Parker for a day. Frank catalano Certainly had the long-time James Brown sideman on his mind when he recorded Mighty Burner. With three fine Delmark hard bop discs under his belt, the twenty-something Chicagoan unleashes this crowd-pleasing live session. He takes no pauses, focusing ...
Pins 'n' Needles
Label: Chicago Lakeside Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: Night and Day; I Can
Live at the Green Mill
Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Softly As In a Morning Sunrise (12:37)/ Killer Joe (15:58)/ Bubble House (10:41)/ Impressions (14:36)/ The Theme (12:26).
Frank Catalano: Pins 'n' Needles

by Jack Bowers
Babyfaced Frank Catalano, who looks barely old enough to shave, wields his razorsharp tenor saxophone like a machete on Pins ‘n’ Needles to slice and dice a trio of standards, three of his own compositions and Charlie Parker’s “Scrapple from the Apple,” ably supported by renowned trumpet master Randy Brecker (on three selections) and an incendiary ...
Frank Catalano: Live at the Green Mill

by Derek Taylor
Not so long ago an adversarial relationship between the so-called camps of mainstream and avant-garde was the talk of the jazz press. Ostensibly led by the preening mouthpiece of Wynton Marsalis many of the “young lions” were openly and sometimes virulently critical of their creative improvising counterparts on the freer side of the fence. Things have ...