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Jim Snidero: Tippin'

by Ken Dryden
September 6, 2008

Since graduating from the University of North Texas in 1981, Jim Snidero has worked for many different bandleaders, including Toshiko Akiyoshi, Frank Wess, Brian Lynch, Tom Varner and Walt Weiskopf, though his first professional gig after moving to New York was with organist Jack McDuff. This year-long stint provided the alto saxophonist with a heavy dose ...

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Jim Snidero: Tippin'

by John Barron
April 6, 2008

With over ten recordings as a leader since his 1984 debut On Time (Toshiba/EMI), alto saxophonist Jim Snidero continues to be a driving force in mainstream jazz. On Tippin', Snidero recruits organist Mike Ledonne, guitarist Paul Bollenback and drummer Tony Reedus for a spirited session of burners, ballads and blues. The title track, a ridiculously fast ...

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Close Up

By Jim Snidero

Label: Telarc
Released: 2004
Track listing: Close Up*/ I Should Care/ Nippon Blue*/ Windswept/ Blues For the Moment*/ Reality*/ Prisoner of Love/ Smash*.

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Jim Snidero: Close Up

Read "Close Up" reviewed by Derek Taylor

by Derek Taylor
November 25, 2004

Prose laureate Whitney Balliett coined the phrase “the sound of surprise" as an encomium for jazz. Like most of his peers, saxophonist Jim Snidero shoots regularly for this ideal. His new Milestone effort flirts with the target but doesn't quite hit the bull's-eye. An accessible program of original tunes shored up by two standards, each cogently ...

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Strings

By Jim Snidero

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Slipping Away; River Suite: Dawn; River Suite: On The Bank; River Suite: Torrent; Theme For Ernie; Forever Gone; Ventura; It's The Talk Of The Town.

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Jim Snidero: Strings

Read "Strings" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann
October 7, 2003

By staying in touch with his roots as a hard blowing alto saxophonist and leader of razor-sharp small bands, Jim Snidero has successfully married a ten-piece string section and a conventional jazz quartet. His arrangements of six original compositions (including the three-part “River Suite”) and two standards entail a constant shifting between the relative freedom of ...

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Jim Snidero: Strings

Read "Strings" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
May 4, 2003

Jazz soloists especially like to make two types of recordings--those in duo with piano and those with strings . Art Pepper, Frank Morgan, Dizzy Gillespie and Jon Faddis made very fine piano duet recordings (Pepper and Morgan with the same pianist, George Cables, Gillespie and Faddis with Oscar Peterson). But seemingly, the Holy Grail of jazz ...

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The Music Of Joe Henderson

By Jim Snidero

Label: Double-Time Jazz
Released: 2000
Track listing: If, Serenity, Punjab, Inner Urge, Step Lightly, Recorda-Me, Black Narcissus, Afro-Centric (53:50)

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Jim Snidero: The Music Of Joe Henderson

Read "The Music Of Joe Henderson" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
March 1, 2000

This past year, rumors of Joe Henderson’s death flooded the internet. Luckily, those rumors were unfounded. While Henderson was taking some time off from performing, his compositions weren’t. Alto saxophonist Jim Snidero assembled a New York post-bop sextet to showcase the now familiar music, like Henderson’s “Recorda-Me,” “Inner Urge,” and “Punjab.” Covering the now classic Henderson ...

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San Juan

By Jim Snidero

Label: Red Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Introspect; San Juan; Mystery; The Web; Forward Motion; La Mesha; In A Daze; To Whom It May Concern (Total Playing Time 55:47).