Results for "Paul Mazzio"

Crows - The Portland Images Project

By Barry Deister

Label: Trans-Pacific Jazz
Released: 2021
Track listing: Winter Wind; The Falls; Cascade Sunrise; Crows; Yellow Flower; Fog; Burnside Blues.

Barry Deister Quintet: Crows - The Portland Images Project

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 2021

Crows, a new recording by saxophonist Barry Deister's quintet, embodies a series of tone poems designed to depict in musical terms various features of the area in and around Portland, Oregon--a locale that Deister and his colleagues call home--as part of the Portland Images Project. Their themes range from ephemeral ("Winter Wind," “Fog," “Cascade Sunrise") to ...

Portland Calling

By Ed Bennett

Label: Saphu Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Portland Calling; Waltz For Jill; Chasing The Hope, Ecaz; Holliday In Portland; Way Out Left; March Mist; News Blues; One For Blakey; Dance Of The Titans; Blues By Southeast

The Ludlow Affair

By David Watson

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Aisle of View; The Ludlow Affair; Another Chance; Early Autumn; Bouncing Baby Funk; Blues for Pablo; Fat Cat; No Such Place; Love Me or Leave Me; Alamode; Please Take Me Back to New Orleans

Paul Mazzio

Dave Brubeck: Small Groups, Large Stature

by Jack Bowers
January 3, 2013

Dave Brubeck wasn't really a big-band kinda guy; in fact, he was seldom seen in groups larger than four or five. On the other hand, he was an extraordinary musician, one whose influence will no doubt be felt for generations to come. Brubeck, who remained active almost to the end of his life, died December 5 ...

The Bill Harris Quintet: Inside-Out

by Edward Blanco
March 29, 2012

Portland, Oregon saxophonist Bill Harris is an educator, sideman and member of organist Steve Hall Quintet when not leading his own band. Growing up listening to jazz masters Sonny Stitt, John Coltrane and Phil Woods among others, he began playing woodwinds while in second grade and has favored the alto and tenor saxophones ever since. Though ...

Take Five With Mike Prigodich

by AAJ Staff
June 25, 2011

Meet Mike Prigodich: Mike's jazz fusion compositions have begun attracting attention from many well-known national and local artists. Becoming a cancer patient in 2008 was the big wakeup call that got him to start writing lots of new music, form a band, start booking gigs, and pursue his dream of becoming a professional jazz ...