Results for "Mike Rocha"

Justin Chart: The Scarlet Jazz Room

by Kyle Simpler
May 7, 2022

Improvisation is one of the key elements of jazz, and it isomething listeners expect to hear in most performances. However, it is often a part of the overall composition, which is based around a central melody. But saxophonist Justin Chart takes improvisation a step further with The Scarlet Jazz Room. This album relies almost entirely on ...

Justin Chart: The Scarlet Jazz Room

by Hrayr Attarian
March 11, 2022

Justin Chart is an award winning singer-songwriter and an accomplished jazz saxophonist. On his spontaneously created pieces Chart often collaborates with a rotating cast of like-minded sidemen. The resulting music is as sophisticated and intricately structured as carefully notated compositions. Chart, once again, showcases his unique artistic approach with the cinematic and enchanting The Scarlet Jazz ...

Architect of Love

By Governor Tom

Label: Distrokid
Released: 2021
Track listing: Architect of Love

Living Wild

By Governor Tom

Label: Distrokid
Released: 2021
Track listing: Living Wild

The Reset

By Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

Label: Music of Content
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Reset; Six Feet Away; Through The Fire (Feat. Vangie Gunn); My Man Sam (For Sammy Nestico); Cell Talk

Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band: The Reset

by Jack Bowers
December 16, 2021

Gordon Goodwin's dynamic Big Phat Band rumbles back onto the scene with The Reset, a somewhat less-than-big-phat album whose dual purpose, according to Goodwin, is to express hope and gratitude in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and to honor one of Goodwin's mentors, the late Sammy Nestico. Goodwin calls the album an EP, whose twenty-eight ...

The Reset

October 19, 2021

Album: The Reset
By Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band
Label: Music of Content
Released: 2021
Duration: 06:43

A Man with a Hat

By Governor Tom

Label: Distrokid
Released: 2020
Track listing: A Man with a Hat

Mike Rocha

Elliot Deutsch: Make Big Band Great Again

by Jack Bowers
December 4, 2018

Bandleader Elliot Deutsch has come up with a clever angle for his third CD, complete with obligatory red baseball cap and “Make Big Band Great Again" logo. Song titles are precocious too: “Fake News," “Repeal and Replace," “The Great Wall," sandwiched between “America the Beautiful" and an ambivalent ode to his Los Angeles home, “Pink Sunset ...