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Johnnie Valentino: Stingy Brim
by Budd Kopman
Omnitone strikes again with Stingy Brim, a release that is billed as commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the death of the tuba as the bass line instrument, when it was replaced by the string bass. This album is very cool, hip, funny and just unpredictable enough to keep you glued to your chair, unless, that ...
Johnnie Valentino: Stingy Brim
by Jim Santella
The tuba makes a comeback on Johnnie Valentino's modern mainstream jazz adventure, Stingy Brim. His program of original compositions features a creative quintet with nonstandard instrumental voices: guitar, tuba, organ, drums, and clarinet or tenor saxophone. Together, they create a whirlwind of saucy jazz with a contemporary flavor that travels no specific timeline. Slight echoes from ...
Johnnie Valentino: Stingy Brim
by Michael P. Gladstone
Guitarist/composer Johnnie Valentino beings his South Philly musical background spliced in with a N'awlins turn-of-the-century ambiance on this ambitious guitar-organ-sax album with a few asterisks attached. The inspiration was the 100th anniversary of the end of the use of a tuba, which became phased out by acoustic bass. In order to restore the music to the ...
Johnnie Valentino: Stingy Brim
by Mark F. Turner
Appearances can be deceiving. After glancing at the front cover of Stingy Brim and reading some of the information in the package, you may think this is just a typical organ/guitar combo. But what becomes apparent when you listen is that this is some very modern jazz--unique compositions and great sounding music. Johnny Valentino, a Los ...
Johnnie Valentino: Stingy Brim
by Dan McClenaghan
It takes a bit of nerve and some swagger, one would guess, to wear a Stingy Brim hat, one of those straw bowler types with a very limited brim overhang. But guitarist Johnnie Valentine does exactly that. It also takes a bit a nerve to bring the tuba into a jazz ensemble these days. ...
8 Shorts in Search of David Lynch
Label: ToneScience
Released: 2005
Track listing: Ambiguity; Exploration; Under Current; Components; Vessel; Verge; Unveiled; Concrete
Irrationality.
Johnnie Valentino: 8 Shorts in Search of David Lynch
by AAJ Staff
By Ken Waxman Sort of a modern day Thomas Alva Edison, Los Angeles-based guitarist Johnnie Valentino takes a practical approach to the somewhat esoteric concept of sound design. True to the functional philosophy of the Wizard of Melo Park, Valentino mostly uses manipulated sounds in his day job, scoring and providing sonic textures for ...
Johnnie Valentino: 8 Shorts in Search of David Lynch
by Rex Butters
Guitarist Johnnie Valentino lists “sound designer on his resume, and his Eight Shorts in Search of David Lynch demonstrates the craft. Valentino designs “sound beds, manipulated found sound environments with which the improvisers interact. Each captures a mood, with ambient dream world synergies seeping in, a la Lynch. The worlds spun by these musicians materialize before ...
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