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Johnnie Valentino: Stingy Brim
by Jim Santella
The tuba makes a comeback on Johnnie Valentino's modern mainstream jazz adventure, Stingy Brim. His program of original compositions features a creative quintet with nonstandard instrumental voices: guitar, tuba, organ, drums, and clarinet or tenor saxophone. Together, they create a whirlwind of saucy jazz with a contemporary flavor that travels no specific timeline. Slight echoes from ...
John McNeil: East Coast Cool
by AAJ Italy Staff
Le magie sonore che scaturirono dal quartetto pianoless di Gerry Mulligan e Chet Baker in una stagione tanto breve quanto intensa, hanno lasciato il segno in più di una generazione di appassionati. John McNeil, trombettista e compositore, già a fianco del grande baritonista e membro di varie orchestre tributo, evita accuratamente una rilettura filologica di quella ...
Johnnie Valentino: Stingy Brim
by Michael P. Gladstone
Guitarist/composer Johnnie Valentino beings his South Philly musical background spliced in with a N'awlins turn-of-the-century ambiance on this ambitious guitar-organ-sax album with a few asterisks attached. The inspiration was the 100th anniversary of the end of the use of a tuba, which became phased out by acoustic bass. In order to restore the music to the ...
Brother Frank
Album: East Coast Cool
By John McNeil
Label: OmniTone
Released: 2005
Duration: 05:17
Johnnie Valentino: Stingy Brim
by Mark F. Turner
Appearances can be deceiving. After glancing at the front cover of Stingy Brim and reading some of the information in the package, you may think this is just a typical organ/guitar combo. But what becomes apparent when you listen is that this is some very modern jazz--unique compositions and great sounding music. Johnny Valentino, a Los ...
John McNeil: East Coast Cool
by Brian P. Lonergan
Trumpeter/composer John McNeil is after a “third stream of sorts with East Coast Cool. His avowed purpose is to meld the cool jazz feel of the Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker quartet (which featured baritone sax and trumpet, but no piano) with the more decentralized approach and edge of modern free jazz. While it's impossible to know how ...
Johnnie Valentino: Stingy Brim
by Dan McClenaghan
It takes a bit of nerve and some swagger, one would guess, to wear a Stingy Brim hat, one of those straw bowler types with a very limited brim overhang. But guitarist Johnnie Valentine does exactly that. It also takes a bit a nerve to bring the tuba into a jazz ensemble these days. ...
M.O.B. Trio: Quite Live In Brooklyn
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il mondo cambia, evolve. L’Europa si guadagna i suoi spazi e forse New York non è più il centro del mondo jazzistico. Però è certo che la scena newyorkese è sempre molto interessante e vivace, così come interessante e vivace è il catalogo di un’etichetta (la Omnitone - che aveva pubblicato anche il disco d'esordio del ...
Brooklyn Sax Quartet: Far Side of Here
by Aaron Rogers
Avant-garde jazz groups can sometimes sound too remote or off-the-wall, even to a hard-core jazz fan. When free jazz musicians play without bass, piano or drums, the music can have a tendency to lose its sense of structure when it comes to harmony and rhythm. Although the Brooklyn Sax Quartet can be labeled as a free ...
John McNeil: East Coast Cool
by Michael P. Gladstone
John McNeil may have stumbled onto something worthwhile here. Of late, the trumpeter/leader/composer has been recording for OmniTone, a Brooklyn-based label which specializes in the edgy music that one might encounter in many of New York's downtown jazz clubs. McNeil goes back some time and has been part of the jazz scene there since the 1970s, ...
