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Label: Rupe Media
Released: 2018
Track listing: The Song Is You; Someday; O Grande Amor; Edelweiss; Johnny Come Lately; Imagination; The
Night Has a Thousand Eyes; Soul Eyes.
Jeff Rupert & Richard Drexler: R&D
by Geannine Reid
Rupert and Drexler are at it again, on the heels of their successful release Imagination (Rupe Media, 2017), now with the second unreleased selection of cuts captured from a portion of two nights by saxophonist Jeff Rupert and pianist Richard Drexler at the Timucua Arts White House in Orlando in June of 2015. The tracks have ...
Rupert & Drexler: R&D
by Mike Jurkovic
Between them, longtime collaborators (and University of Central Florida professors), saxophonist Jeff Rupert and pianist Richard Drexler have played on hundreds of recordings ranging from Diane Schuur, Mel Torme, Sam Rivers, Mose Allison, Tony Bennett and the Woody Herman Orchestra, to name just a few. So it comes as no surprise that R & D, recorded ...
The Flying Horse Big Band: The Bat Swings!
by Jack Bowers
Although The Bat Swings! could well be taken for a baseball analogy, the focus of this third CD by the University of Central Florida's high-powered Flying Horse Big Band is on music associated with the campy Batman TV series from the late 1960s that starred Adam West as the masked superhero and Burt Ward as his ...
Jazzing Up Childhood Memories
by Jerome Wilson
Jazz musicians today sometimes draw on all sorts of popular culture for inspiration, including the television shows they grew up with. Here are two fine examples. The Flying Horse Big Band The Bat Swings! Flying Horse Records 2018 The University of Central Florida's Flying Horse Big Band presents a ...
Jeff Rupert and Richard Drexler: Imagination
by Geannine Reid
Saxophonist Jeff Rupert is a YAMAHA performing artist. His credits include recordings and tours with: Diane Schuur, Mel Tormé, Kevin Mahogany, Ernestine Anderson, and Benny Carter's Grammy winning Harlem Renaissance. Jeff Rupert toured for fifteen years with Sam Rivers; four albums ensued, and from 1997-2002 he toured and recorded with Maynard Ferguson. Rupert is a Pegasus ...
The Toughest High School Jazz Competition Goes National
Orlando, FL - “It’s the only talent competition of its kind in North America,” Jeff Rupert, Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Central Florida (UCF) said Monday. Five* of the nation’s best high school age Jazz musicians will come to Orlando in March, 2014, to perform with the UCF All-Star High School Jazztet, that ...
Jeff Berlin: Still the Ace of Bass
by John Patten
Through the course of a four-decade career, Jeff Berlin has refused to end his musical quest. He crafted a popping, percussive style so thoroughly ingrained in the recordings of the 1980s, it's nearly ubiquitous. His work with Bill Bruford, whom he met during a stint with Yes, led to further innovations in playing.More recently, ...
Ybor Jazz Festival Set for Nov. 2-7 at the HCC Campus
Jazz festivals in Tampa have come and gone, and most--like the USF Jazz Festival and the Ybor Jazz Festa--have been short-lived, if often impressive. Now here comes the first Ybor Jazz Festival, and its slogan and lineup make clear its musical intentions: “There's nothing smooth about it!" Some of the area's finest jazz artists, including pianists ...
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Label: Songosaurus Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Hungarian Dance #1 in g minor; Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34 - 3rd movement/Piano Quartet #3 in c minor, Op. 60 - 1st movement; Piano Quartet #3 in c minor, Op. 60 - 3rd movement; Hungarian Dance #5 in f# minor; Introduction to Epistrophy; Epistrophy; I'll Never Find Another You; Where Is Love?; Intermezzo in a minor, Op. 76, No. 7; String Quintet #2 in G, Op. 111 - 1st movement; String Quintet #2 in G, Op. 111 - 2nd movement; String Quintet #2 in G, Op. 111 - 3rd movement; String Quintet #2 in G, Op. 111- 4th movement; Capriccio in d minor, Op. 116, No. 1; Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77 - 3rd movement
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