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Jorge Calandrelli

Denise Mangiardi: On the Brink

by Nicholas F. Mondello
August 7, 2024

Originally from Freeport, Long Island, New York and now residing on the Isle of Wight in the United Kingdom, multi-faceted vocalist, composer, arranger, and engineer, Denise Mangiardi offers On the Brink, her eighth album as leader. Consisting of seven exceptionally well-performed selections with a handful of vivid originals and two classics, this is a masterful effort ...

Accent: Christmas All the Way

by Nicholas F. Mondello
November 26, 2019

A rhetorical question: what makes a great Christmas album? We know all or most of the chestnuts, both commercial and religious. The Drummer Boy flams, someone's dreaming white, and another will be home in their dreams. The annual marathon Yuletide programs rely heavily on the tried and true with an occasional novelty thrown in. Classical purists ...

Patrice Jegou Wins Independent Music Award (IMA) For Best A Cappella Song

July 1, 2019

Vocalist Patrice Jégou wins Independent Music Award for Best A Cappella Song “Lover Come Back To Me” featuring Take 6’s Mark Kibble & Alvin Chea from her new album, If It Ain't Love. Patrice Jegou (pronounced Zhay-goo), who released her critically acclaimed second album earlier this year, If It Ain't Love, won in the Independent Music ...

Bob Wagner: Toot Suite

by Nicholas F. Mondello
February 23, 2018

There have been many composers on both sides of the classical-jazz continuum who have attempted to blend those genres. Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Darius Milhaud, Duke Ellington, Lalo Schifrin, Jorge Calandrelli, and others have explored the parallels and differences. In 1980, French jazz pianist/composer, Claude Bolling composed “Toot Suite" for the great French ...

Sings Ellington Hot And Cool

By Tony Bennett

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Do Nothin Till You Hear from Me Bob Russell; Mood Indigo Barney Bigard Irving Mills; Shes Got It Bad And That Aint Good Paul Francis Webster; Caravan Mills Juan Tizol; Chelsea Bridge Billy Strayhorn; Azure Mills; Im Just a Lucky SoandSo David; In a Sentimental Mood Manny Kurtz Mills; Dont Get Around Much Anymore Russell; Sophisticated Lady Mills Parish; In a Mellow Tone Milt Gabler; Day Dream John La Touche Billy Strayhorn; Prelude to a Kiss Gordon Mills; It Dont Mean a Thing If It Aint Got That Swing Mills.