Results for "Jason Rigby"

Twenty Twenty

November 1, 2023

Album: Songs, Hymns And Ballads Volume 2
By Jakob Dreyer
Label: Fresh Sound New Talent
Released: 2023
Duration: 5:30

Morning Song

By Matt Aronoff

Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. Morning Song, 2. El De Lun, 3. Bass Interlude, 4. Hodgman, 5. June 25th, 6. Blue Quokka Performers: Matt Aronoff (bass), Jason Rigby (tenor sax), Yago Vazquez (Frender Rhodes), Henry Cole (drums)

Don't Let Go

By Mike Holober

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Disc 1—Breathe Deep; Morning Hope; Four-Letter Words; Kiss the Ground; Burnin’ Daylight; A Summer Midnight’s Dream; Necessary. Disc 2—I Wonder; You’re a Long Way from Home; You Never Know; Smile Slow; Letting Go; Touch the Sky; Don’t Let Go.

The Sound Of Listening

By Mark Guiliana

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Path To Bliss; The Most Important Question; A Way Of Looking; Our Essential Nature; The Courage To Be Free; Everything Changed After You Left; The Sound Of Listening; Under The Influence; Practicing Silence; Continuation.

Songs, Hymns And Ballads Volume 1

By Jakob Dreyer

Label: Fresh Sound New Talent
Released: 2022
Track listing: Milchstrasse; Gothamburg; Legrand; Epistemology; J-Song; Seneca Village; Kaspar; The Cure.

Mark Guiliana, Chris Morrissey, Jason Rigby and Shai Maestro at Bluenote in Milan

by Roberto Cifarelli
November 19, 2022

Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet: The Sound Of Listening

by Chris May
September 24, 2022

There is something tantalisingly out of reach on the Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet's The Sound Of Listening. It is not “difficult" music, but it is cryptic. After multiple replays the code remains unbroken. It seems something important is going on but... what exactly? It is rather like encountering Guiliana's fellow New Yorker, tenor saxophonist Oded Tzur ...

Mike Holober & Balancing Act: Don't Let Go

by Jack Bowers
June 2, 2022

With Don't Let Go, pianist Mike Holober and the octet Balancing Act seemed to have found an ideal way to cross-breed classical motifs and contemporary jazz to produce a pleasurable listening experience. Then he added lyrics. Granted, not all lyrics are superfluous—even those that are either nebulous or indecipherable, as is too often the case here. ...

Jared Schonig's Two Takes

by Jerome Wilson
January 17, 2022

Drummer Jared Schonig has tried something different on his first recording as a leader. He has released two albums featuring the same eight original compositions played in two different settings, one with a quintet and one with a big band. The drive and muscular rhythmic pulse of his writing come through in both configurations.

Jason Rigby

Born: December 2, 1974

Some musicians seem born with sound in their bones. Jason Rigby is one of them.

Born on a U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, to a Navy family with deep Sicilian and Irish roots, Jason had already lived in Hawaii and Texas before his family landed in Cleveland, Ohio, when he was just five. But it wasn’t geography that shaped his path—it was sound.

One evening, when Jason was ten, while tuning into an Indians baseball game on the radio, something on the local jazz station stopped him cold. It was Coleman Hawkins’ legendary 1939 recording of Body and Soul. “That sound stopped me in my tracks,” Jason remembers. “I knew that was where I wanted to exist—inside that huge sound and soulful playing.” And from that moment, the saxophone wasn’t just an instrument—it was home.