Results for "Rocco John"

Rocco John

Cuong Vu, Phil Schurger, Cluttertones and More

by Maurice Hogue
October 24, 2018

Check out some great music from new releases, from the avant-garde/Middle Eastern/North African fusion of Ensemble Fanaa, to trumpeter Cuong Vu's quartet with Bill Frisell; from Chicago guitarist Phil Schurger to New Orleans drummer Billie Davies; from poet Vince Bell to pianist Ran Blake with singer Christine Correa. Plus a set from three excellent German groups ...

Devotion

By Rocco John

Label: Coalition of Creative Artists Productions
Released: 2009
Track listing: Riffin' For Eric; Bass Talk; Bach to Bird; Cy-Cology; Devotion Suite I; Devotion Suite II And III; Devotion Suite IV; Michievous Mystic; Freedom Theme I And II; Freedom Theme III; Dreams.

The Rocco John Group: Devotion

by Warren Allen
January 28, 2009

With his drifting tones and trilling bird calls, Rocco John Iacovone evokes saxophone greats including Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, and Jackie McLean, and also suggests mentors Lee Konitz and Sam Rivers. All of these references used their distinct sounds to expand and reshape the musical conventions around them. With Devotion--his sixth album as leader and third ...

Don't Wait Too Long...

By Rocco John

Label: Coca
Released: 2007
Track listing: Overture; Gentilesse; Indigo Joe; Leticia; Ming's Things; Bicycle for Two; Don't Wait Too Long; Cursory Rhyme; Finale.

Rocco John: Don't Wait Too Long...

by Russ Musto
May 21, 2007

So much of the jazz on CDs these days sounds so much the same, so that when a disc such as this one is released, on which the music clearly speaks with its own voice, one must take notice. Saxophonist Rocco John has studied with Sam Rivers and Lee Konitz and his distinctly ...