Results for "Joe La Barbera"

Umbria Jazz Winter 2014

by Libero Farnè
February 19, 2014

Umbria Jazz Winter Orvieto 28.12.2013-1.1.2014 Come sempre il cartellone di Umbria Jazz Winter, nel clima festoso a cavallo di Capodanno in vari prestigiosi spazi di Orvieto, si è presentato articolato, giostrando fra nomi più o meno noti, fra protagonisti italiani e americani. I nomi emergenti da non lasciarsi sfuggire ...

The La Barbera Brothers: Jazz DNA

by Nicholas F. Mondello
November 7, 2013

It's an interesting phenomenon how certain families enter and distinguish themselves in this marvelous world of jazz--The Joneses, Heaths, Candolis, Royals, Breckers, Mangiones, and others. Over the last five decades--even many more if one goes farther back to when they were young children playing in the family band with Mom and Pop--the La Barbera Brothers--John, Joe ...

A Jazzy Christmas Wish Fulfilled

October 11, 2013

Pianist and vocalist Peggy Duquesnel will release All I Ask for Christmas on November 5th, a double-disc set comprised of instrumental and vocal renditions of holiday standards and spirited originals. Long Beach, CA: There is always a bit of an uproar when Santa and the elves debate over music preferences while toiling away in their North ...

Alex Snydman: Fortunate Action

by Edward Blanco
July 8, 2013

Guitarist-turned-drummer Alex Snydman left behind an established East Coast presence in the Massachusetts and New York area jazz scenes for graduate studies at The California Institute of the Arts and, while in Los Angeles, has produced his very first album as leader with the highly audacious Fortunate Action. A student of Joe La Barbera, Bob Gullotti ...

Turn Out The Stars

Featuring the music of Joe La Barbera
Duration: 09:47
January 20, 2013

Silver Streams

By Joe La Barbera

Label: Jazz Compass
Released: 2012

Deborah Shulman / Larry Zalkind: Lost In The Stars: The Music Of Bernstein, Weill & Sondheim

by Dan Bilawsky
November 15, 2012

The respective output from compositional icons Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Weill and, to a lesser extent, Stephen Sondheim has frequently been putty in jazz musicians' and arrangers' hands, proving that malleability is a sine qua non for long-range success in writing; genius-level composing skills, of course, also tend to help. While the actual act ...

John Proulx: The Best Thing for You

by C. Michael Bailey
November 13, 2012

While female jazz vocalists outnumber male jazz vocalists five to one, it would be a fallacy to believe there is not a wealth of talent among the men singers. With Louis Armstrong and Chet Baker now memories, and Mark Murphy and Jon Hendricks in twilight, as Kurt Elling ascends their throne, there exists a vocal diaspora ...

Mark Masters Ensemble: Ellington Saxophone Encounters

by Edward Blanco
September 6, 2012

Longtime big band arranger/bandleader Mark Masters happens to be President of the Pasadena, CA-based non-profit American Jazz Institute (AJI), while baritone saxophonist great Gary Smulyan sits on its Advisory Board. Together, the two have often joined forces on musical projects intended to foster and promote jazz; Ellington Saxophone Encounters is another one of their AJI collaborations, ...

Mark Masters Ensemble: Ellington Saxophone Encounters

by Dan Bilawsky
August 30, 2012

Countless albums have been made with the sole intention of honoring the great Duke Ellington by highlighting his personality, piano skills and pile of hits, but they don't tell the whole story; part of his legacy rests with the men who brought his music to life. The individuals who filled out the roster in Ellington's illustrious ...