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Glenn Astarita

Born: August 21

I own a jazz/blues club (Water's Edge Bar & Grill) in Slidell, LA and write for Downbeat magazine, the New Orleans Weekly Gambit, All About Jazz and other music related mags/zines. Play the drums (briefly studied with Andrew Cyrille) and trying to start a house band at the club. Did some freelance photography years back, i.e. Corporate Functions, landscapes, drunks. Also spent time in a rainforest in Indonesia.

I'm an Information Technology Consultant (Not too persistent, but pushy by nature.) Hence, results oriented. Resumes are available upon request

Andres Thor: Relocate

by Glenn Astarita
September 17, 2026

Icelandic guitarist Andres Thor has spent the better part of two decades quietly building a catalog that swings between Nordic chamber-jazz and something closer to countrified twang, and on Relocate the splits the difference again, this time with a jazz trio featuring French bassist Nico Moreaux and Icelandic drummer Magnús Trygvason Eliassen. The record follows the ...

Lars Fredrik Frøislie: Gamle Mester

by Glenn Astarita
September 6, 2026

Lars Fredrik Frøislie has spent the better part of two decades as the keyboard architect behind Wobbler, the Norwegian outfit that rebuilt 1970s symphonic prog from the inside out using vintage gear and a period-accurate ear. He has also logged time in White Willow and appeared on more than thirty other recordings since 2003, alongside a ...

Luciano Soriano: New Places, Old Faces

by Glenn Astarita
September 3, 2026

Luciano Soriano arrives with considerable momentum for a debut leader. He earned a Vail Jazz Workshop credential, an LA Jazz Society Shelly Manne New Talent Award, and a win at the International Trombone Festival's Carl Fontana Competition—all before completing his Jazz Trombone degree at Juilliard. As a commissioned composer for the school's Green Club, Soriano's ambitions ...

Schanzer/Speach with Guests: Live in Brooklyn 1992-2002

by Glenn Astarita
September 3, 2026

Recorded between 1992 and 2002 at Brooklyn landmarks like the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, Live in Brooklyn 1992--2002 serves as a crucial historical document of a fertile, pre-gentrification avant-garde movement. The sprawling two-CD retrospective captures guitarist Jeffrey Schanzer and pianist Bernadette Speach acting as host-collaborators, juxtaposing intimate duo work with expansive ensemble explorations alongside an extraordinary ...

Josh Warren: The Path

by Glenn Astarita
August 31, 2026

Brevity, done well, remains an underrated virtue in jazz. Josh Warren is not yet a household name, though he has been building a reputation the honest way, working alongside a string of notable artists before ever stepping out as a leader. Based in Toronto and only 22 years old, he arrives at The Path with more ...

Satoko Fujii: Second Attempt

by Glenn Astarita
August 31, 2026

Satoko Fujii has spent three decades assembling large ensembles the way other composers assemble scores, treating personnel as raw material shaped alongside melody and structure. Her Berlin orchestra, formed during a 2014 residency, reunites nine years later. Recorded live in Berlin on May 3, 2026, the album closes out a tour Fujii nearly abandoned after a ...

James Emery / Anthony Braxton: Articulations

by Glenn Astarita
August 29, 2026

Thirty-four years is a long time for a tape to sit in a drawer, but jazz history is littered with such delays, and Anthony Braxton's discography in particular has always unspooled out of chronological order. Articulations, a duo session with guitarist James Emery recorded in Florence on June 19, 1992, finally surfaced this year on Emery's ...

Bret Higgins: Scoring The Unseen

by Glenn Astarita
August 23, 2026

Bret Higgins has built a career as a bassist among adventurous improvisers, but on Scoring the Unseen he steps fully into the role of film composer, minus the inconvenience of an actual film. The concept, soundtracks for movies that exist only in imagination, could easily be read as a gimmick on paper. On wax, it plays ...

King Crimson: 2014 NYC

by Glenn Astarita
August 21, 2026

For a band that reinvents itself every decade or so, King Crimson has always treated New York as something closer to a proving ground than a tour stop. The city runs through the group's history, from the 1969 Fillmore East debut through the Larks' era sendoff at Central Park in 1974, six nights at the Savoy ...