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Nick Vayenas
Trombonist, trumpeter, and composer Nick Vayenas has been a mainstay on the music scene for the past 15 years. Based in New York City, Nick has worked in a variety of settings both as a sideman and leader. Originally from Boston, Vayenas started his music studies at age 12. He earned scholarships to attend Berklee College of Music, the Manhattan School of Music and the Thelonious Monk Institute, which were key to his technical development as a musician and composer. Vayenas studied with such jazz luminaries as trombonists Hal Crook, Conrad Herwig, Bill Watrous, David Taylor, Phil Wilson, and Steve Turre, as well as trumpeters Terence Blanchard, Greg Hopkins, and Vince Penzarella. Since 2003, Nick has been a member of the horn for section for Grammy® Award-winning recording artist Michael Bublé
John Yao and His 17 Piece Instrument: Points In Time
by Jack Bowers
The insuperable spirit of swinging big-band jazz is everywhere apparent on Points in Time, the seventh recording by New York-based composer, arranger and trombonist John Yao, and the second with his marvelous 17-Piece Instrument, a decade after its well-received debut, Flip-Flop. (See Tao, 2015). As on that earlier album, the playlist consists of ...
Lotus Blossom Days
By Vicki Burns
Label: ViBu Jazz
Released: 2022
Track listing: If You Never Fall In Love With Me/Del Sasser
Close Your Eyes
Love Spell
Lotus Blossom Days
Bittersweet
Watch Out/ The Sidewinder
A Long Way To Go/ Equinox
It's Over Now/ Well You Needn't
You Don't Have To Believe
This Time The Dream's On Me
Siren Song
Out Of This World
Patrick Cornelius: From ECM to Acadia National Park
by Friedrich Kunzmann
With a persistently active live and equally dynamic release schedule in his back pocket, alto saxophonist Patrick Cornelius continues to push the boundaries of the straight-ahead approach to jazz into a more modern context. Since his first recording as a leader--2006's self-released Lucid Dream featuring a cast of fellow Berklee College of Music Students from the ...
Enter the "Nick Vayenas - Some Other Time" Giveaway at All About Jazz!
All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Whirlwind Recordings “Nick Vayenas - Some Other Time“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select TEN winners at the conclusion of the contest on June 9th. Click here to enter the contest (Tracking Nick Vayenas at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good luck! Your ...
Assembly Line
Album: Some Other Time
By Nick Vayenas
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2013
Duration: 7:58
Patrick Cornelius: Infinite Blue
by Edward Blanco
Veteran New York saxophonist and composer Patrick Cornelius delivers his fourth album as leader with Infinite Blue, a gem of a recording that sparkles with an A-list of players interpreting eight new originals and one cover tune in one audacious session of music. Not really an unusual feat for this three-time winner of the ASCAP Young ...
Patrick Cornelius: Fierce
by Bruce Lindsay
Fierce is alto saxophonist Patrick Cornelius' second album as leader, following his self-produced 2006 debut, Lucid Dream. It's an album on which the young Berklee and Manhattan School of Music graduate explores his love of the chord-less jazz ensemble, with no piano, guitar or organ heard on these nine original compositions. Cornelius is ...
Patrick Cornelius: Fierce
by Dan Bilawsky
Fierce isn't the most inviting album title in the world. People with a penchant for gauging albums based on single-word descriptors could be scared off here, but they'd be missing out on some bold performances that are creative and, yes, occasionally fierce. Some of the most striking music coming out these days seems ...
