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Album

Keep Steppin'

Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2001
Track listing: Encounter; Introspection; Keep Steppin'; The End Of A Love Affair; Sunset; Around The Way; Mike's Move; Solar; Bittersuite.

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Mike DiRubbo Quintet: Keep Steppin'

Read "Keep Steppin'" reviewed by David A. Orthmann

by David A. Orthmann
June 1, 2001

One of the great pleasures of being a jazz fan is bearing witness as a young musician makes the leap from someone to watch to a powerful, not-to-be-missed performer. Therefore it is deeply satisfying to hear Mike DiRubbo, only two years after his promising debut on Sharp Nine, emerge withKeep Steppin’, a brilliantly realized recording for ...

Album

From the Inside Out

By Mike DiRubbo

Label: Sharp Nine Records
Released: 1999

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Mike DiRubbo: From the Inside Out

Read "From the Inside Out" reviewed by Joel Roberts

by Joel Roberts
May 1, 1999

As the title of his debut album on the Sharp Nine label suggests, alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo's musical imagination resides in that space between the mainstream and the avant-garde. It's no surprise, then, to learn that he's a former student of the great Jackie McLean, who, perhaps more than anyone, brought a tough, bebop and blues-based ...

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Mike DiRubbo Quintet: From the Inside Out

Read "From the Inside Out" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
April 1, 1999

The proliferation of accomplished young saxophonists continues with New Haven native Mike DiRubbo's debut on Sharp Nine, which continues its admirable policy of promoting undiscovered but no less deserving talent. DiRubbo, now 28 years old, was only 23 when From the Inside Out was recorded in 1994. He'd already graduated from the Hartt School of Music, ...