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Rob Ryndak

“Somewhere between the passionate inspiration of John Coltrane’s “Bahia” and Dizzy Gillespie’s years as the flag bearer for Latin Jazz is the place where you’ll find the essence of Rob Ryndak’s music.” —Scott Adams, The Sounds of Brazil! Radio Network Raised in Chicago’s northside and the youngest of several musical brothers, award-winning composer and pianist Rob Ryndak led his own rock band playing the drums while still in grammar school, actively performing at parties and talent shows. Yet, a little over a decade ago, the horn lines and rhythmic cadences he presents today were about as far removed from Rob’s life as a jazz club is from a seminary, which is exactly where Ryndak really honed the tools of his craft

A Wonderful Thing

By Rob Ryndak

Label: Pacific Coast Jazz
Released: 2013

Boundless

By Rob Ryndak

Label: Southport Records
Released: 1998

Rob Ryndak: Boundless

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 1998

Scott Adams' liner notes describe Rob Ryndak's musical perspective as arising from 'the decades'long marriage of Jazz with the tropics,' and rhythmically speaking, the point is well made. This isn't typical 'Latin Jazz' ' that is to say, there are few brassy fireworks or cascading congas overspreading the landscape ' but an insistent beat from south ...