Results for "Jeremy Manasia"

Charles Ruggiero & Hilary Gardner Play The Bird and the Bee

Label: SmallsLIVE
Released: 2017
Track listing: 1. Meteor 2. F*cking Boyfriend 3. Lovey Dovey 4. You're a Cad 5. Come As You Were 6. Diamond Dave 7. The Races 8. 4th of July

Metamorphosis

By Jeremy Manasia

Label: Rondette Jazz
Released: 2016
Track listing: Metamorphosis; Nancy (with the Laughing Face); Wheatleigh Hall; Witchery; Over Easy; Sweet Child.

Jeremy Manasia Trio: Metamorphosis

by Jack Bowers
April 26, 2016

The Jeremy Manasia Trio: new names one and all in this neighborhood save for the gentleman who makes the trio a quartet, guitarist Peter Bernstein. As it turns out, pianist Manasia, a native of Staten Island, has been a mainstay on the New York jazz scene since he returned from Europe in 1997, and Metamorphosis is ...

Nick Hempton: Catch and Release

by Edward Blanco
January 10, 2016

Veteran New York saxophonist Nick Hempton lets loose with the stellar Catch and Release, a special project that has been a year-long journey and an experiment of sorts, in recording and releasing music. The album contains eight original Hempton compositions except that each tune was recorded and released separately for purchase on-line on the internet for, ...

Nick Hempton: Catch And Release

by Dan Bilawsky
January 9, 2016

When it come to music release methods, there's nothing more stubborn or persistent than the single. Music has fallen in and out of love with so many different formats over the years, but the one-song-at-a-time method of digestion has weathered every shift, spat, and alteration that life and technology have thrown at it. In fact, it's ...

Charles Ruggiero Releases "As Heard On TV"

October 7, 2015

Rondette Jazz announces second solo album from drummer Charles Ruggiero, As Heard On TV. On October 16, As Heard On TV will be available through Rondette Jazz on CD and via digital download on iTunes. Limited edition vinyl will also be available. A CD release party will be held Friday, October 9 at Smalls Jazz Club ...

Charles Ruggiero: Boom Bang, Boom Bang!

by Edward Blanco
March 5, 2015

Though jazz drummer Charles Ruggiero has made many recordings as a sideman over the last twenty-five years, he makes his long-awaited debut with Boom Bang, Boom Bang!, paying a tribute of sorts to Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, two of his favorite jazz artists. Growing up with the sounds of the flute and the Fender Rhodes, ...

Pixel Queen

By Jeremy Manasia

Label: Blujazz
Released: 2014
Track listing: Postscript From An Argument; Another Ordinary Day; Night Demon; Pixel Queen; Lucky To Be Me; One Summer's Cradle; Lily's Hamlet.

Jeremy Manasia: Pixel Queen

by Dan Bilawsky
April 26, 2014

Pixel Queen is the third record to document the musical relationship that pianist Jeremy Manasia has with bassist Barak Mori and drummer Charles Ruggiero. Manasia's debut leader date--Witchery (Cellar Live, 2007)--featured a different rhythm crew, but this bass-and-drums team came aboard for After Dark (Posi-Tone, 2009), a pleasing trio-with-guests outing, and stayed for Green Dream (Cellar ...

Charles Owens Quartet: New York, NY, November 18, 2012

by David A. Orthmann
December 9, 2012

Charles Owens QuartetSmalls Jazz ClubNew York, NYNovember 18, 2012In 1994, Charles Owens, then a student at the New School, talked then-owner Mitch Borden into letting him run the Sunday afternoon jam session at Smalls, a fledgling basement club that had rapidly become an important incubator of young talent. The tenor saxophonist ...