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News: Recording

Valentina Marino - "In The Name Of Love" - Jazzheads Release Date: August 12

Valentina Marino - "In The Name Of Love" - Jazzheads Release Date: August 12

New on Jazzheads Records VALENTINA MARINO In The Name Of Love Release Date: August 12th Featuring: Cameron Brown, Anthony Pinciotti, Alberto Pibiri and more! From Standards To David Bowie Vocalist, songwriter, arranger and lyricist Valentina Marino brings the sensitivity, sophistication and earthiness of her Mediterranean roots to cutting edge jazz. Marino is a musical gypsy, in ...

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Article: Album Review

Carol Welsman: Alone Together

Read "Alone Together" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

Canadian jazz pianist and vocalist Carol Welsman unveils her eleventh album as leader with the audacious Alone Together where she's never alone and altogether very spicy and splendid on vocals as well as on the keys. The album contains a superb selection of time-honored standards like Sammy Cahn's “Day By Day," Rodgers & Hammerstein's oft-recorded “It ...

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Article: Album Review

Ron Oswanski: December's Moon

Read "December's Moon" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian

Keyboardist Ron Oswanski is known primarily as an audacious organist. He does, however, also bring a unique agility to the accordion and is endowed with a lyrical touch on the piano as his debut album December's Moon amply demonstrates.The dozen tunes cover modern jazz compositions, Oswanski's originals and a Led Zeppelin anthem. The wide ...

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Article: Album Review

Ron Oswanski: December's Moon

Read "December's Moon" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello

With the possible exception of “love" and “you," “moon" enters as a most-welcomed word-muse to performers, composers and lyricists. When “jazz organ" enters into that equation, the expected aural summation might be the blues-infused funk of Jimmy Smith or the steamy straight-ahead of Joey DeFrancesco.December's Moon from multi-keyboardist/composer--and now leader--Ron Oswanski, is a performance ...

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Article: Album Review

Ron Oswanski: December's Moon

Read "December's Moon" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco

A modernist with the Hammond B-3 organ, Ron Oswanski introduces himself as leader for the first time crafting a vibrant modern jazz, almost fusion-like in texture, musical experiment on December's Moon. On tap are a host of exciting new originals as well as creative and swinging arrangements of music from trumpeter Kenny Wheeler whose “Kayak, and ...

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Article: Live Review

Richard Sussman Quintet: Nyack, NY, July 22, 2012

Read "Richard Sussman Quintet: Nyack, NY, July 22, 2012" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann

Richard Sussman QuintetNyack Jazz Week at the Turning Point CafeNyack, NYJuly 22, 2012Unlike the performance of certain forms of popular music, in which musicians dutifully strive to reproduce perfect versions of tracks from a record, a jazz CD release party proceeds from entirely different expectations. Befitting the music's emphasis on improvisation ...

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Article: Interview

Brian Adler: A World of Percussion

Read "Brian Adler: A World of Percussion" reviewed by Dave Wayne

by Dave Wayne

Brian Adler is truly both a drummer and a percussionist--in his world, the drum set coexists peacefully with a dizzying array of ethnic percussion instruments as equal partners in a myriad of musical possibilities. His work with vocalist Sunny Kim in the Prana Trio--which also includes a rotating cast of guest artists such as Frank Carlberg, ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Carl Fischer & Organic Groove Ensemble: Adverse Times

Read "Carl Fischer & Organic Groove Ensemble: Adverse Times" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello

Carl Fischer & Organic Groove Ensemble Adverse Times Fisch Music 2010 Sometimes it seems that trumpet players get more of the spotlight than other instrument-playing bandleaders. Perhaps it's because of the tremendous legacy emanating from Louis Armstrong's tree. The nature of the trumpet speaks of leadership, ...

Album

Local Dialect

By Jay Azzolina

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2007

Album

Live at One Station Plaza

By Jay Azzolina

Label: Azziz Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: It's All About You, Viracocha, Irene, So Steps the Giant, Her First Waltz, Peace of Jack, It's All About Me


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