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Michael Pedicin: 'Just the Three of Us' at Chris’ Jazz Café
by Victor L. Schermer
Michael Pedicin: Just the Three of Us Chris' Jazz Café Philadelphia, PA September 10, 2022 This superb set of mainstream jazz by three accomplished and dedicated musicians: Michael Pedicin on tenor saxophone, Jim Ridl on piano, and Dean Johnson on bass, owes much of its successful execution to ...
Take Five with Bryan S. Wright
by AAJ Staff
Meet Bryan S. Wright Bryan S. Wright is a pianist and Grammy-nominated musicologist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since 2003, he has been the Executive Producer of Rivermont Records, a label dedicated to preserving and promoting ragtime and early jazz styles through reissues of historic recordings alongside new recordings by today's most celebrated ragtime and early jazz ...
Stephen Philip Harvey: Big Band Superhero In the Making
by John Chacona
There's a passage in “Party Song," the concluding cut on the Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra's debut recording, Smash! (Next Level, 2022) where the band claps hands, whoops and cheers over a syncopated praise-band saxophone riff. It's pure, unbridled joy and just like the exuberance implied by the exclamation point in the album's title, it's an ...
Joe Block Quartet Featuring Vocalist Jamile At Chris’ Jazz Cafe
by Victor L. Schermer
Joe Block Quartet featuring vocalist Jamile Chris' Jazz Café Philadelphia, PA June 17, 2022 Although this reviewer recently interviewed pianist Joe Block for All About Jazz, he never heard Block leading his own group live. So he seized this opportunity to get an up close hearing at ...
Pianoless Trios: Sonny Rollins to Ballister
by David Brown
Sonny Rollins is famous for the pianoless trio. He said the lack of chordal instruments gave him more freedom for soloing. Tonight, a smorgasbord of trios sans pianos. Offering lots of space for soloists and collective interplay. Note: Due to a loose board plug, songs two and three play in mono. The issue was resolved during ...
Matthew Parrish's Philly Express Band: Jazz at Cherry Street Pier
by Victor L. Schermer
Matthew Parrish Philly Express Band Cherry Street Pier Philadelphia, PA April 16, 2022 This “Jazz Appreciation Month" concert, sponsored by Jazz Philadelphia and the city's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy, unveiled a jazz quintet of highest caliber. The group was assembled by bassist Matthew Parrish ...
Sid Mark: An Interview With The Legendary Philadelphia Disc Jockey
by Victor L. Schermer
Sid Mark is a Philadelphia institution. For the last fifty years (!), he has hosted the popular radio show, The Sounds of Sinatra exclusively devoted to the man and his music. (The show currently airs on WPHT 1210 AM: “Friday with Frank": Fridays 6pm-8pm ET; “Saturday with Sinatra": Saturdays 8pm-10pm ET; “Sunday with Sinatra": Sundays 8am-1pm ...
Hasaan Ibn Ali: Requiem (And Praise) For A Heavyweight Pianist
by Victor L. Schermer
"The new release of Hasaan's Retrospect In Retirement Of Delay: The Solo Recordings (Omnivore Recordings, 2021), which features him in privately recorded performances from 1962 to 1965, reveals his profundity, his overwhelming power, his mighty virtuosity. It does more than put him on the map of jazz history—it expands the map to include the vast expanse ...
Philadelphia's WRTI 90.1 launches fascinating new podcast about the history of jazz in Denmark
WRTI is proud to announce the launch of Dangerous Sounds, an eight-episode podcast series on WRTI.org. Based on the award-winning Danish podcast Dangerous Tones—The Story of Danish Jazz, Dangerous Sounds is the English-language version presented by WRTI in collaboration with JazzDanmark, the national Danish organization for jazz. “This revealing new Dangerous Sounds series showcases a powerful ...
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Matthew Giobbi
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Matthew Giobbi was born in 1974 and raised in Easton and Wind Gap, Pennsylvania. His early passion for music led him to study piano and trombone under esteemed mentors like Paul Schocker. He pursued formal music education at Moravian College, Mannes School of Music, and the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, performing with prestigious ensembles such as the New York Youth Symphony at Carnegie Hall and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Lima in Peru.
