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About Mark Gross
Instrument: Saxophone, alto
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Mark Gross
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Mark Gross swings and sings with soul and rhythm along today's jazz vanguard. He constantly pushes the music forward, while staying true to the elements of the classic sound. Mark Gross has recorded on over 80 notable jazz recording, including 2 GRAMMY AWARD winning projects by the Dave Holland Big Band - 'What Goes Around' on ECM Records, and 'Overtime' on Dare 2 Records. Mark’s recordings 'Preach Daddy' on King Records and 'Riddle of the Sphinx' on J Curve Record and 'Blackside' on Jazz Legacy Productions have all received rave reviews." “As record concepts go, 'Riddle of the Sphinx' is one of the most clever to come down the pike...Mark Gross is a sax man deserving wider attention who is blessed with a rich, pure tone...Clearly one of the orders of the day for jazz album projects is the conceptual approach....he has successfully plotted and delivered this course, arriving at a package that is fresh, original, and served up by a cohesive band of fine players. Could we ask for anything more?" Willard Jenkins-regular contributor to Jazz Times, Downbeat, and Jazz Report Magazine "Gross is a new and powerful alto sax player who is a Cannonball type player
Introducing Drummer Mecadon McCune
by Sanford Josephson
This article previously appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. Mecadon McCune has been immersed in music since he was born. His father is veteran jazz pianist Brandon McCune; his mother, Christine Clemmons-McCune, is an opera singer. “My dad made sure that I was learning piano since I was about four years old," he said, “but ...
Anthony E. Nelson Jr.: Swinging Sunset
by Chris May
Swinging Sunset, New Jersey-based tenor saxophonist Anthony E. Nelson Jr.'s fifth album on his Musicstand label, is an unpretentious, undemanding and utterly enjoyable celebration of the organ trios of the 1950s and 1960s. From the first bars of the opener, Eddie Heywood's “Canadian Sunset," it feels like we are in for a good time and, over ...
Jazz For Teens Education Program Celebrates 25 Years Of Impacting Thousands Of Young Musicians
Spring semester January 21-May 13, 2023, every Saturday @ 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Special 25th anniversary performance May 13, 2023. The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) ,the state’s anchor cultural institution, celebrates 25 years of offering thousands of high schoolers from Newark and beyond music lessons and performance experiences through its popular TD Jazz for Teensprogram. ...
Buster Willams' Quartet at the Perry Pavilion
by Mark Robbins
Bassist Buster Williams decided after 30 years as a side man to the greats to step up and present his own music and his own musical ideas. In 1990 he formed Something More and has traveled the world and the United States numerous times including the first international jazz festival in jny:Moscow. The Virginia Arts Festival ...
Wells Fargo Jazz For Teens
by Sanford Josephson
This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine Clay Hudson grew up in a family “surrounded by music, and it rubbed off on me." Henry Spencer remembers that in the second grade at St. Luke's School in the West Village, “every student took drum lessons. I was the only one who stuck with it." ...
Sing a Song of Bird
Label: Skyline Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: People Chase;
The Scatter;
Bird's Song;
Parker's Mood;
Grapple With The Apple;
Audubon's New Bluebird;
Sheila, Jazz Child;
Quasimodo;
Now's The Time;
Yardbird Suite;
Koko/Cherokee;
These Foolish Things.
Early Blue Evening
By Andy Farber
Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2021
Track listing: Don’t Tell Me What to Do; Feet and Frames; The Holidaymakers; Aircheck; Early Blue
Evening; Fanfare on Fairfax; Cork Grease and Valve Oil; Portrait of Joe Temperley;
Symphony for Doctor “T”; Theme from The Odd Couple; How Am I to Know?
Roseanna Vitro: Sing a Song of Bird
by Pierre Giroux
Roseanne Vitro is one of those jazz singers who falls into the category of “I recognize the voice, but I just can't seem to place her." She has more than a respectable discography which stretches back to 1982, when she released her debut album Listen Here for the Texas Rose label. Her fall 2021 album, Sing ...
Andy Farber and His Orchestra: Early Blue Evening
by Jack Bowers
Saxophonist Andy Farber's New York-based orchestra came together and cut its teeth as the onstage band for three hundred performances of After Midnight, a Broadway revue that paid tribute to Jazz Age nightclub luminaries from Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie to Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh. As one might presume from the ...
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