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Oblique Rhyme

Label: Orenda Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: War Crimes; Hidden Lake; Mood of Mind; Sum Thymes; Prism; Ambient Ambiance; This Must Be For You;
Caricature; Picking Up the Pieces
Joe Santa Maria: Oblique Rhyme

by Jack Kenny
The perennial challenge of balancing individual expression with collective harmony is masterfully addressed by Joe Santa Maria (saxophones), David Tranchina (bass), Gary Fukushima (piano), and Colin Woodford (drums). Their collaboration weaves contemporary jazz with blues and avant-garde elements, crafting an eclectic sound that showcases the quartet's versatility and chemistry. Fukushima's style is strikingly individualistic, ...
Joe Santa Maria & David Tranchina: Oblique Rhyme

by Fran Kursztejn
The integral development of post-'70s jazz has nothing to do with instruments, playstyle or compositional ethos. After bop's heyday slowly petered out, its practitioners either holding strong to the tradition or scattering to other genres in the public's favor, the necessity of a studio-produced, hierarchical set seemed to disappear with it. Granted, the bandleader model maintains ...
Joe Santa Maria: Echo Deep

by Alberto Bazzurro
Un solido jazz per middle band (peraltro di tiro spesso molto big), con infiltrazioni easy, è quanto ci arriva da questo album, molto compatto e sostanzialmente corale, del polistrumentista e compositore texano Joe Santa Maria, che ha diviso la sua attività musicale, ormai piuttosto corposa, fra Houston, Boston, New York e Los Angeles. ...
Finding The Fire Within With Rich Halley And More

by Bob Osborne
On this show we feature recent and new releases from Rich Halley, Pat Thomas's Ism, Angel Bat Dawid, John Herberman, Pernille Bévort 3, Joe Santa Maria, Rajna Swaminathan, Rebecca Nash, Ancient Infinity Orchestra, Isaiah Collier, Christoph Gallio Dominic Lash & Mark Sanders, and Blue Moods featuring Art Hirahara, Diego Rivera, Boris Kozlov and Vinnie Sperrazza.
Echo Deep

Label: Orenda Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Apix Groob; Soap Box; Mad Max; Pathways 1; Lullaby; Play Play; Pathways 2; On the Water; Where's
Annie?
Joe Santa Maria: Echo Deep

by Glenn Astarita
In the liner notes, L.A.-based multi-woodwind specialist Joe Santa Maria, known for his contributions to Vinnie Golia ensembles, Django Django, and Kim Richmond and others, reveals that this project took nearly a decade to complete, shaped by his extensive travels and dedicated studies. Notably, he emphasizes the cyclical, trance-like essence embedded within these compositions. The prolonged ...