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Joe Magnarelli

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Over the course of a 40+ year career, Joe Magnarelli has emerged as one of the premier trumpeters, improvisers, composers, and educators in jazz. Initially training as a pianist who accompanied songs sung by his father, Magnarelli took up trumpet as a youth in his native Syracuse. He was inspired by lessons with noted trumpeter Sal Amico as well as performances with esteemed tenor saxophonist J. R. Montrose. He also studied briefly with distinguished trumpeter Louis Mucci at the Berklee School of Music in Boston, and others. During his first two years as a student at the State University of New York-Fredonia, where he earned a Special Studies B.A
Battle Lines

By Steve Fidyk
Label: Blue Canteen Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Ignominy; Battle Lines; Loopholes; Thank You,
Dziekuje; Bebop Operations; Bootlickers Blues;
Lullaby For Lori
And John; Churn; Steeplechase; #Social Loafing;
Sir John.
Steve Fidyk, Joe Magnarelli & Gregory Porter

by Joe Dimino
There was so much good music that came out in 2020, we are still catching up. The 691st Episode of Neon Jazz begins with veteran drummer Steve Fidyk with music off his new CD Battle Lines. We also look into some quality music from Stephane Spira, Mark Masters, Gregory Porter and Benny Benack III. Finally, we ...
Remembrance

By Andy Fusco
Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Conception; It's A Blue World; Good Morning Heartache; Tchau; Limehouse Blues; Remembrance; Blues For Bailey's;
All American; I'm A Fool To Want You; Navan's Apple.
West Meets East

By Adam Shulman
Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Nickel and Dimed; Manne-Splainin’; Lean and Mean; Mingus Dreams of Billy Strayhorn;
Whose Blues; Jack’s Basket; Heart of Winter; Central Avenue Rundown.
Battle Lines

By Steve Fidyk
Label: Blue Canteen Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Ignominy; Battle Lines; Loopholes; Thank You, Dziekuje; Bebop Operations; Bootlickers Blues; Lullaby For Lori
and John; Churn; Steeplechase; #Social Loafing; Sir John.
Live at the Bird's Eye Jazz Club, Basel

Label: Albore Jazz
Released: 2020
Track listing: Conception; The Truth Tellers; Mr Kenyatta; Sophisticated Lady; Brooklyn; Everything I Love; Bittersweet.
Joe Magnarelli at Smalls Jazz Club

by David A. Orthmann
Joe Magnarelli Quintet Smalls Jazz Club New York, NY September 1, 2020 One hundred days may not sound like a particularly long time in the annals of jazz or, for that matter, any human endeavor. Nevertheless, in the midst of a seemingly endless pandemic that has upended every aspect of ...
Andy Fusco: Remembrance

by David A. Orthmann
Since 2016 SteepleChase Records has released five discs by alto saxophonist Andy Fusco. This impressive, often stunning body of work goes a long way in raising the profile of a man who had seldom been given the opportunity to record under his own name. While Fusco leads the sessions, he's the antithesis of a star or ...
Adam Shulman Septet: West Meets East

by Jack Bowers
The west" here is represented by San Francisco-based pianist and group leader Adam Shulman, the east" by the other half-dozen members of Shulman's impressive septet. Even though the reasons that led to the alliance are ambiguous, what matters is the payoff, and that is more than admirable from any vantage point. As if ...