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Joe Mullen

Shining A Light On Pianist Ron Thomas

by Dan McClenaghan
May 18, 2020

Pianist / composer Ron Thomas (b. 1942), was introduced to the piano by his father, Buddy, a self-taught player who learned the art of the ivories by analyzing piano roll performances. Ron was, according to his biography, three or four years old at the time. Those early lessons took root, and then along came Marilyn Monroe. ...

Lost World Tango

By Joe Mullen

Label: Vectordisc Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Exordium; Your Table Is Ready; Forest Prowl; MemorySpace; Ars Poetica; Clouds In The Wind; House Of Counted Days (Weeping Rain); Lost World Tango.

Denis DiBlasio Quintet: Where the Jade Buddha Lives

by Dan McClenaghan
December 8, 2011

As a former member/musical director of trumpeter Maynard Ferguson's band, baritone saxophonist Denis DiBlasio is certainly no stranger to mapping out music and following charts. But he also has an adventurous streak, one in which the slightest of frameworks is laid down--maybe just a mood suggested or, perhaps even, a single note brought up as the ...

The Joe Mullen Quartet: Lost World Tango

by Dan McClenaghan
September 25, 2011

Drummer Joe Mullen's Lost World Tango presents a highly collaborative trumpet-and-rhythm section quartet. Jazz foursomes are more commonly led by a saxophonists, with notable exceptions being trumpeter Miles Davis' Musing of Miles (Prestige, 1955); pianist Herbie Hancock's classic Empyrean Isles (Blue Note, 1964); Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's marvelous ECM series with his supporting trio of young ...