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Oli Rockberger With New Solo Album

Oli Rockberger With New Solo Album

Whether you first discover Oli Rockberger through his work as a singer-songwriter, producer, arranger, keys sideman, or as one third of acclaimed band/production team Mister Barrington, you’ll find a distinctive musical voice running through the rich and varied work he does. Londoner Rockberger, who currently lives in NY, first came to the US on a Full ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

The Complete Arista Albums Collection

Read "The Complete Arista Albums Collection" reviewed by John Kelman


When fusion first emerged in the late 1960s/early '70s with artists like trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Chick Corea and guitarist John McLaughlin, the emphasis was on guitar and keyboard heavy lineups like Return to Forever and Mahavishnu Orchestra, with an equally strong predilection for the intensity and volume of rock and a kind of thundering funk ...

Album

Old Habits

Label: Oli Road Records
Released: 2011

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News: Recording

Lars Haake - "In the Picture"

In the Picture (released September 27, 2011) is the debut album of alto saxophonist Lars Haake. It features Haake plus the rhythm section of James Genus (acoustic bass), George Burton (piano/fender rhodes) and Wayne Smith Jr. (drums) as well as Oli Rockberger (backup vocals on track 3). In the Picture includes nine tracks, the first six ...

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Article: Live Review

The 6th Penang Island Jazz Festival: December 3-6, 2009

Read "The 6th Penang Island Jazz Festival: December 3-6, 2009" reviewed by Ian Patterson


The 6th Penang Island Jazz Festival Bayview Beach Resort Penang, Malaysia December 3-6, 2009 Happy birthday to the Penang Island Jazz Festival, six years old this year! Six years may not seem like a lot, but in small jazz festival terms it probably means that the difficult initial ...

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Article: Interview

Tony Grey: Stepping out of the Shadows

Read "Tony Grey: Stepping out of the Shadows" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Since graduating from Berklee with honors in 2001, Tony Grey has earned a reputation as one of the most exciting bassists of his generation. His debut solo recording ...Moving (Self Produced, 2004) won enthusiastic reviews and revealed a musician gifted with a very strong sense of melody, and songwriting skills which drew from influences far beyond ...

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Hush Now

Label: Oli Road
Released: 2005
Track listing: Hush Now; Show Me; How Am I Gonna Get There?; Guide Me Home; Make You Mine; Clear and Collected; Baby I'm Crazy; New Man.

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Article: Album Review

Oli Rockberger: Hush Now

Read "Hush Now" reviewed by Phil DiPietro


At 25, Oli Rockberger has made short work of the distance from his London birthplace to Boston's Berklee School of Music, where he earned every formal accolade they could hand him. Like the two most precocious new whiz-kid pianists singing “jazz today, Jamie Cullum and Nellie McKay, Rockberger's pedigree originates across the pond, but that--along with ...


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