Results for "Rod McGaha"

Rod McGaha

Rod McGaha is exactly what working musicians strive to be, a potent combination of virtuosity and unfettered artistic passion. But who are we to say so? Fair question. It has been said by more than a few that the good musicians know who are the good musicians; therefore - Max Roach (jazz legend): “(Rod is) An important new and original voice.” Clark Terry (jazz legend): “When I first heard Trees (Rod), I got that same feeling I got when I first heard Wynton . Some musicians just have that thing!” Jeff Coffin (Dave Matthews Band): “Rod McGaha is a one of a kind musician and has his own identity on the trumpet – an instrument that millions of people play- and that's saying something.” Kirk Whalum (Grammy award winner): “Rod McGaha doesn't think he has the luxury of ever releasing music he doesn't feel deeply

Growth

By Don Aliquo

Label: Ear Up Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Salt and Light; Woman Clothed in the Sun, Lower Broadway Rundown, Growth, Pedal Taverns, For the Vulnerable, Naked Statues, Blues for Duffy and Doug

Don Aliquo: Growth

by Jack Bowers
March 11, 2023

On Growth, his eighth album as a leader, it is said that Nashville-based saxophonist Don Aliquo “pushes past his established comfort zone and into more precarious and challenging improvisational territory." While that may well be true, another truism is that the harmonic vocabulary of contemporary jazz has remained essentially unchanged for more than eight decades, and ...

Chris McDonald: A Big (Band) Swinging Christmas!

by Jack Bowers
November 25, 2017

A Big (Band) Swinging Christmas! is at least the tenth holiday album recorded by the peerless arranger Chris McDonald's impressive Jazz Orchestra--but the first one whose title has been amplified by an exclamation mark. Could it be that this one is extra-special? That's hard to say, as the albums that preceded it have all been remarkably ...

The Black Flower Project

By Rod McGaha

Label: Compass Records
Released: 2014

No Pews Required: Chris McDonald Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
June 4, 2014

A glance at the name and song titles on Chris McDonald's new album might lead to an assumption that this is a Christian manifesto masquerading as big-band jazz, when in fact the reverse is true--McDonald, a superlative arranger, happens to be a man of faith who uses Christian themes as the basis for some of the ...

Imer Santiago: Hidden Journey

by Hrayr Attarian
November 29, 2013

Nashville based trumpeter Imer Santiago's debut album Hidden Journey is an engaging, diverse set of nine originals and two standards, that maintains its momentum from the first note to the last. Santiago's compositions sometimes in collaboration with saxophonist and label founder Rahsaan Barber are primarily hard bop vehicles with a variety of flavors that allow the ...

JazzWeek Radio Chart: September 28, 2009

October 6, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 2 2 Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 253 221 +32 0 60 1 10 2 1 1 Roy Hargrove Big Band Emergence (Emarcy) 242 268 -26 0 61 1 6 3 3 3 Roberta Gambarini So In Love (Emarcy) 212 176 +36 4 57 3 5 ...

JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 31, 2009

September 8, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 266 248 +18 0 60 1 6 2 2 3 Bobby Broom Bobby Broom Plays For Monk (Origin) 207 209 -2 2 53 2 12 3 28 36 Allen Toussaint The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch) 185 92 +93 2 ...

JazzWeek Radio Chart: August 24, 2009

September 1, 2009

TW LW 2W Artist TW LW Move Add Rpts Peak Wks 1 1 1 Jackie Ryan Doozy (Open Art) 248 266 -18 0 61 1 5 2 3 4 Bobby Broom Bobby Broom Plays For Monk (Origin) 209 194 +15 0 51 2 11 3 3 3 Christian McBride & Inside Straight Kind Of Brown (Mack Avenue) 183 ...