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Lakeland Jazz Festival 2013: Kirtland, Ohio, February 22-24
by Matt Marshall
41st Annual Lakeland Jazz FestivalKirtland, OhioFebruary 22-24, 2013 Scanning the list of guest artists who have appeared at the Lakeland Jazz Festival since its inception in 1973 reveals a history of acts with connections to the Northeast Ohio/Western Pennsylvania/Western New York area, with an internationally recognized name--Clark Terry, Donald Byrd, Kenny ...
Mario Romano Quartet: Valentina
by Edward Blanco
Canadian pianist Mario Romano--founder and president of the Castlepoint Group--is well-known in the Toronto Italian-Canadian community--not so much as a pianist, but as a major player in the real estate development industry. Valentina, is Romano's first album as a leader, returning to jazz music after nearly four decades of deferring to development deals. While unfamiliar to ...
Roberto Occhipinti: A Bend in the River
by AAJ Italy Staff
Quarto album nelle vesti di leader per Roberto Occhipinti. Il bassista e compositore, nato in Canada da genitori siciliani, nel suo percorso artistico si è immerso più volte nella musica afrocubana, e questo A Bend in the River - per determinati aspetti - non fa eccezione, anche se nelle sette tracce qui proposte si possono evidenziare ...
Hilario Duran Trio: Motion
by Jerry D'Souza
Hilario Duran continues to essay his skills as a pianist and composer of remarkable virtuosity on Motion. The compositions open a vista of stylistic opportunities, into which he delves with relish and focus, as he drives his creative forces to a new high. Duran's father, Hilario Duran Sr., was part of the “Movimiento del ...
JazzWeek Radio Chart: June 14, 2010
TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 7 8 Ray Vega & Thomas Marriott East-West Trumpet Summit (Origin) 280 152 +128 10 71 1 4 2 9 10 Trombone Shorty Backatown (Verve Forecast) 205 144 +61 0 57 2 9 3 2 2 Dr. Lonnie Smith Spiral (Palmetto) 199 176 +23 5 ...
Roberto Occhipinti Trio Redefines Saturday Afternoons at Toronto Pub
by Neal Colgrass
Roberto Occhipinti TrioDora Keogh PubToronto, CanadaDecember 19, 2009 Hilario Duran and Roberto Occhipinti Few world-class jazz trios play at neighborhood pubs. But Toronto has lost two of its most popular venues--goodbye Top O' the Senator; au revoir Montreal Bistro--and several smaller places are helping to kick-start the scene. Why ...
A Bend in the River
Label: Alma Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Umbria; A Bend in the River; That's That; Naima; Chamacos; Garotte; Marta.
Roberto Occhipinti: A Bend in the River
by Raul d'Gama Rose
A dark vision of the world and this time is, perhaps, the most accurate one today. So when an account of artists' contributions to raising the world's level of awareness is written, bassist Roberto Occhipinti's fine A Bend in the River will rank as one with the clearest reflection of that vision. Of course none of ...
Yemaya
Label: Alma Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Maracatres; Mank; Yemaya; El Otro Tipo; A Ilha; The Shadow; Herbie's Mood; Bernardo's Tango; Yambu (for Pancho Quinto).
Roberto Occhipinti: Yemaya
by John Kelman
Roberto Occhipinti, a bassist who has comfortably straddled an increasingly tenuous line between classical and jazz worlds for many years, has become more ambitious in style and scope with each successive release. On Yemaya, the Toronto native ups the ante from his superb mini-big band release The Cusp (Modicamusic, 2003) by enlisting a string quartet, a ...
