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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

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Lotus Blossom Days

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

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Article: Interview

Patrick Cornelius: From ECM to Acadia National Park

Read "Patrick Cornelius: From ECM to Acadia National Park" reviewed 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 ...

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Enter the "Nick Vayenas - Some Other Time" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

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 ...

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Some Other Time

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2013

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Song of the Day

Assembly Line

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Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2013
Duration: 7:58

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Article: Album Review

Patrick Cornelius: Infinite Blue

Read "Infinite Blue" reviewed 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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Patrick Cornelius: Fierce

Read "Fierce" reviewed 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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Patrick Cornelius: Fierce

Read "Fierce" reviewed 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 ...

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Synesthesia

Label: World Culture Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Voyager; Assembly Line; Synesthesia; Odeon; Along the Way; Circuit Dialog; Staircase; The Essence; Dissolution; Soaring; Gone from Me.


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