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Cindy Bradley: Ready to Bloom
by Jeff Winbush
Cindy Bradley first picked up the trumpet in the fourth grade and hasn't put it down since. She learned the importance of professionalism early on, playing at the age of 12 in a Buffalo area jazz band. Bradley would go on to earn a bachelor's degree in Jazz Studies from Ithaca College and a Master's degree ...
Jo Lawry: Singing Sideman
by Jason Crane
Australian vocalist Jo Lawry is quickly establishing herself among the top tier of current jazz vocalists. And she's doing it--at least some of the time--by being a sideman. Lawry hails from Adelaide, Australia. She's been in the U.S. for several years now pursuing advanced degrees in jazz, but she hasn't spent all her time ...
Trumpeter Vinnie Cutro & New York City Soundscape Release "Sakura"
On Sakura, his 4th album as a leader, trumpeter Vinnie Cutro presents a set of straight ahead mainstream jazz that extends the legacy of such hard-driving bands as Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers and the 1950s quintets led by Horace Silver and Miles Davis. Cutro contributes 6 originals and a haunting arrangement of the familiar ...
Jerry Bergonzi: Tenor Talk
by Jack Bowers
Jerry Bergonzi, a Bostonian who has been plying his trade for more than four decades, often slips through the cracks when the names of accomplished post-bop tenor saxophonists are bandied about. Rather strange, as Bergonzi has had a notable career as a player/educator that has included quality time with the Dave Brubeck Quartet, among others, and ...
Jerry Bergonzi: Reptilian Fantasies & Tenor Talk
by Tom Greenland
Bruce Gertz Quintet Reptilian Fantasies Open Mind Jazz 2008 Jerry Bergonzi Tenor Talk Savant Records 2008 Jerry Bergonzi, a turbo-charged tenorist in the tradition of Coltrane, Rollins ...
Tenor Talk
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Who Cares?; Hank; Girl Idlig; Soul Mission; Splurge; Wippin' and Waulpin'; Left of Memory.
Jerry Bergonzi: Tenor Talk
by Jakob Baekgaard
Talking about the tenor. Talking about the giants. Talking about Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, John Coltrane, Joe Henderson, Hank Mobley, Sonny Rollins and Pharoah Sanders. Talking about the people who blew the night into day and the day into night. They were swinging, singing, shouting--always searching deeper into the music. To play the tenor is to ...
Tenorist
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Gecko Plex; Pannonica; Simultaneous Looks; Table Steaks; La Mesha; Czarology; With Reference; Creature Feature; On Again Of Again.
Jerry Bergonzi: Tenorist
by Joshua Weiner
We all make our choices in life, and perhaps saxophonist Jerry Bergonzi's desire to teach--which has resulted in a position at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston as well as several acclaimed books on improvisation--explains why he does not have the name recognition (and big major label contract) of some other tenors. Judging from ...
Tenor of the Times
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Acookarache; You're My Everything; Bob Berg; Cadiz; Stumbelina; Skull Shining; The Tomb.
