Results for "Madison Rast"

News

By Tim Brey

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Commodification; News; Here or There; There's a Lull in my Life; Ask Me Later; Pensativa; There Stands the Glass; Dreamsville

The Big Band Project

By Jim Levendis

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: This Could Be the Start of Something Big; Taking a Chance on Love; The Nearness of You; Jeepers Creepers; Stardust; Easy to Love; One Morning in May; Everything I Love; Latin Medley (O Morro Nao Tern Vez/Midnight Sun/Corcovado); Just in Time; Silent Night.

The Things We Did Last Summer

By Tim Brey

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Curtain Call; Hindsight; Strange Meadowlark/On a Misty Night; For Heaven's Sake; The Things We Did Last Summer; My Bells/Central Park West; Holy Land; A Ship Without a Sail; The Waiting Game; The Things We Did Last Summer (Solo)

Orrin Evans: The Magic of Now

by Mike Jurkovic
July 15, 2021

Timing is everything, the old masters teach. So pianist/composer/bandleader Orrin Evans drops the brazen The Magic of Now just in time. Just in time for the world to open up, renew its commitment, and move forward. Just in time for all to engage in those necessary conversations about civil upkeep. Put plainly, The Magic of Now ...

The Intangible Between

By Orrin Evans

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Proclaim Liberty; This Little Light of Mine; A Time For Love; That Too; Off Minor; Into Dawn; Tough Love; Im So Glad I Got to Know You

Madison Rast

Madison was born and raised in North Carolina and attended the prestigious North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem. He received a bachelor's degree in music performance and attended graduate school at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. There he received a masters degree in jazz performance. Madison moved to Philadelphia in September 1999 and now teaches at Bucks County Community College. He performs on a regular basis at clubs in and around Philadelphia and often in New York. Madison has played with countless musicians known well in both the New York and Philly areas, including John Swana, Bootsie Barnes, Bobby Watson, Orrin Evans, Mickey Roker, Terell Stafford, Barry Harris and Jimmy Heath.

Orrin Evans: Presence

by Mike Jurkovic
September 26, 2018

You have to wonder how many outlets a restless creative like hard bopping pianist Orrin Evans needs to fully express himself. Twenty-five or so albums into a legacy that finds him as the newest member of The Bad Plus after years of riffing and ripping it up with The Mingus Big Band, experimenting with soul/jazz Luv ...

Dan Monaghan: The Man Behind The Swing

by Victor L. Schermer
February 16, 2018

Dan Monaghan is a working drummer who makes an indispensable contribution to the music by being the one who provides the swing and support that allows the other musicians to achieve their diverse objectives. He performs so often in the Philadelphia area that if you go to a jazz show, there's a fair chance he'll be ...

Color Theory

By Josh Lawrence

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: Yellow; Presence; The Ripoff; RED!; The Conceptualizer; Green; Black; An Uptown Romance; Purple (4 Prince); Blue; On The Yangtze.

Drive

By Michelle Lordi

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2015
Track listing: You're My Thrill; Imagination; True Love; My Ship; If I Only Had a Heart; I Fall in Love Too Easily; My Ideal; Ghost of a Chance; Now at Last;. Drive.