Results for "Jim Rotondi"

Lili Maljic

Jim Rotondi, Wire Town, Donald Vega and Dan Moretti

by Joe Dimino
February 16, 2025

Get ready for a thrilling ride as we launch the 893rd episode of Neon Jazz! We kick things off with Kansas City's powerhouse supergroup, Wire Town, delivering fresh, electrifying sounds captured live at the legendary Green Lady Lounge. From there, we honor the legacy of the late, great Jim Rotondi before diving into an incredible lineup ...

One For All: Big George

by C. Andrew Hovan
February 9, 2025

The world has changed dramatically since the end of the 20th century, the time period when the jazz collective One For All began to forge their stamp on the history of hard bop. Using the club Augie's on New York's upper west side as their stomping grounds, the group would make their debut recording at the ...

2024 in Review

by Jerome Wilson
January 8, 2025

This show reviews my favorite jazz releases for 2024, including new recordings and newly discovered older concert performances. Artists heard on the show include Fay Victor, Darius Jones, Ron Miles, Frank Carlberg, and David Murray. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of ...

Finesse

By Jim Rotondi

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ruth; Dark Blue; Lady Bug; Designated Hitter; Falset; Before Curtis; For Curtis; Going To The Sun; Prelude For 14 Strings and Flute; Interlude; In Graz; Happy Feet; Miller Time.

Big George

By One for All

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Chainsaw; In the Lead; Edgerly; Oscar Winner (feat. George Coleman); My Foolish Heart (feat. George Coleman); This I Dig of You (feat. George Coleman).

Mike Stern, Brad Mehldau, Jim Rotondi & Jesus Molina

by Joe Dimino
September 15, 2024

We dive into the 871st Episode of Neon Jazz with the brilliant Colombian-born pianist Jesus Molina and the title track off his 2024 album Selah. From there, we say goodbye to the towering jazz trumpeter of Jim Rotondi and hear new material from Mike Stern, Wayne Alpern, Christian Sands and Greg Johnson. In between, we get ...

Jim Rotondi (1962-2024)

September 4, 2024

Jim Rotondi, a prolific hard-bop jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, arranger, educator and conductor whose horn appears on more than 80 recordings as well as 15 leadership albums, died on July 8 in Le Crest, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. He was 61. Born in Butte, Montana, in 1962, Rotondi was the youngest of five siblings. All were given piano ...

Horn Engine: Not Like This

by Nicholas F. Mondello
August 26, 2024

"Not Like This" from the Horn Engine team is somewhat of a textural departure from their more intense, funk and Jerry Hey Horns-oriented earlier fare. Composed by the late Grammy-winner Jeremy Lubbock for Al Jarreau, the song has been covered by artists as wide-ranging as vocalists Helen Merrill, and Mark Murphy, and brass men Til Bronner ...

Jamie Baum Septet, Marquis Hill, Chien Chien Lu and Jim Rotondi

by Hobart Taylor
August 7, 2024

New music from the Jamie Baum Septet, trumpeter Marquis Hill's genre-busting celebration Composers Collective, a couple of jams from vibraphonist Chien Chien Lu and remembering trumpeter Jim Rotondi with music from his last release, Finesse. Playlist Ellen Andrea Wang “Hummingsong" from Closeness II (Ropeadope) 0:00 Ezéchiel Pailhès “Ventas Rumba 10 Flat Feet" from Ventas ...