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John Daversa: Junk Wagon:The Big Band Album

Read "Junk Wagon:The Big Band Album" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
August 19, 2011

Constant stimulation is the name of the game on Junk Wagon. Trumpeter/composer John Daversa delivers nine pieces that reflect the hustle and bustle of today's world, without resorting to any big band clichés of yore. Each composition, with the exception of the balladic “Most Of All," is a stylistic hybrid, where scattershot elements ...

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John Daversa: Junk Wagon

August 2, 2011

You know how I'm always carping that jazz doesn't push hard enough to get to the next level? And you know how you email me to ask what exactly I have in mind to illustrate my point? Two words: John Daversa. His first studio CD, Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album is positively fascinating. Unlike many ...

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Trumpeter/Composer John Daversa Releases New Big Band Recording "Junk Wagon" on BFM Jazz.

July 14, 2011

It's kind of a cheap play on words, but let's go for it anyway: What makes the music on John Daversa's Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album so exciting and so innovative is its Daversa-ty. As Bob Mintzer, the renowned saxophonist and longtime Yellowjackets member, puts it in his liner notes, “This CD is not Basie, ...

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Yellowjackets: Timeline

Read "Timeline" reviewed by Mark F. Turner

by Mark F. Turner
March 11, 2011

To have worked thirty years in the business is exceptional for any band, especially in jazz. But since 1981, pianist/keyboardist Russell Ferrante and bassist Jimmy Haslip have maintained the award-winning Yellowjackets--from that year's eponymous Warner Bros. debut, with its infectious blend of fusion and funk, featuring guitarist Robben Ford, and the incorporation of jazz and strings ...