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New Year's Dream
Album: New York Accent
By Mike DiRubbo
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2007
Duration: 8:14
Saxophonist Mike DiRubbo Free Downloads at AAJ: "Down" and "New Year's Dream"
All About Jazz is offering two consecutive days of saxophonist Mike DiRubbo's music as free downloads. Today's download, “Down" appears on Human Spirit (2003) and tomorrow's “New Year's Dream" appears on his latest release, New York Accent. Click here to download both tracks from Mike's page @ AAJ About Mike DiRubbo Combining an extensive knowledge of ...
Mike DiRubbo: The First Priority? Recording This Band
by Scott Douglas
For New York Accent: Live at the Kitano (Cellar Live, 2007), his fourth record as leader, alto saxophonist DiRubbo chose to forego the studio for the room at Manhattan's Kitano Hotel. DiRubbo picked the setting in part because, with paid studio dates becoming increasingly rare for independent jazz musicians, he realized he needed to take the ...
Mike DiRubbo: New York Accent
by Russ Musto
Despite its ever increasing international character, a good deal of the greatest jazz--particularly that performed in Manhattan clubs--is still played with a decidedly New York accent. The sound of the city is an urgent one--its tone dark, its rhythm intense. Saxophonist Mike DiRubbo speaks this language articulately, with a voice that clearly hearkens to his heroes, ...
Mike DiRubbo Quartet At Smoke
by David A. Orthmann
Mike DiRubbo Quartet Smoke New York, NY March 16, 2006 Alto and soprano saxophonist Mike DiRubbo returned recently to Smoke, an important Upper West Side venue that presents established and up-and-coming talent. A decade ago, Smoke (then named Augie's) was the place where the Hartt School of Music graduate began ...
Mike DiRubbo: Human Spirit
by Russ Musto
Alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo's most recent outing for Criss Cross features the Jackie McLean protege in the fast company of trumpeter Jim Rotondi, pianist David Hazeltine, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Joe Farnsworth (two thirds of the sextet One For All) in a set that showcases his growing talent and expansive command of the jazz idiom.
Human Spirit
By Mike DiRubbo
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2003
Track listing: Transfer; Moon River; Human Spirit; Minor March; North Shore Reflections; Bossa For
Baby; Throwback; Down.
Mike DiRubbo: Human Spirit
by David A. Orthmann
On his second Criss Cross release, alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo thrives on the challenges posed by a great rhythm section. Pianist David Hazeltine, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Joe Farnsworth, most notably of the cooperative sextet One For All, have lit a fire under dozens of significant jazz recordings over the past decade. Full of inspired ...
Systems Blue
By Steve Davis
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2002
Track listing: Surrey With The Fringe On Top; Spirit Waltz; Systems Blue; A Nightingale Sang In Berleley Square; If I Love Again; Who Can I Turn To; Speak Low; 8. Namely You; Three and One; My Old Flame.
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