Results for "Rodney Green"

Rodney Green

Some people seek out a career in music, and some just cannot escape it. As an only child growing up in Philadelphia, gospel music and musical instruments surrounded Rodney Green at home and in church, where he spent most of his time. His father was a preacher and organist, and his mother sang in church. Rodney was drawn to the drum kit, and by age three, would climb on the kit play whenever possible. By his early teens, Green was playing drums in church, but outside he was being exposed to other kinds of music like jazz. His older cousin, also a musician, introduced Rodney to jazz, funk, and soul music, and (along with his high school band teacher) started him listening records like, “A Love Supreme,” “Transition,” and “Four More”

Decidedly so

By Joe Magnarelli

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: D.J.; Decidedly So; Good Health; 10th Anniversary; This Nearly Was Mine; When I Grow Too Old To Dream; When I Fall In Love; Jimmy's Blues.

Simon Says

By Simon Mogul

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Simon Says;In Exile;Disturbed;Cheyenne's Heart;Speak From The Heart;In There;Familiar Ties;Can't Shake The Spirit;Stutz McGee

Joe Magnarelli: Decidedly so

by David A. Orthmann
April 15, 2026

The front-line alliance of trumpeter Joe Magnarelli and trombonist Steve Davis is one of the distinguishing features of Decidedly So, Magnarelli's 2026 release in an impressive string of releases as a leader. Magnarelli and Davis interact in ways that reflect decades of experience in playing modern, straight-ahead jazz. The two brass instruments work together and respond ...

Joe Magnarelli: Decidedly so

by Jack Bowers
February 6, 2026

Trumpeter Joe Magnarelli has been a bright light on the New York-area jazz scene for four decades, since arriving in the city in 1986 from his native Syracuse, NY. On Decidedly So, his eighteenth recording and third for Cellar Music, Magnarelli ushers a top-drawer quintet through its paces in a pleasing session that encompasses a trio ...

Joe Magnarelli: Decidedly so

by Pierre Giroux
February 3, 2026

Joe Magnarelli's Decidedly So strongly reaffirms the enduring virtues of straight-ahead jazz, recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Studio in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, where these qualities have long been valued. Brought to life in March 2025 before a small but attentive audience, the session benefits from a rare blend of relaxed confidence and deliberate swing that can ...

Concord

By Joe Magnarelli

Label: Steeplechase Productions
Released: 2025
Track listing: It's A Blue World; Veneration; Moonlight In Vermont; Brooklyn; Patti; Look For The Silver Lining; Ruby My Dear; Hargrove (for Roy); Baubles, Bangles and Beads; Concord.

My Ideal

By Sam Dillon

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: No Promises; Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; Past Times; Have You Met Miss Jones; My Ideal; I Love You; Path of Totality; SD Card.

Joe Magnarelli: Concord

by David A. Orthmann
November 15, 2025

Throughout a career spanning over four decades, much of it spent in the trenches of New York City's notoriously competitive jazz scene, trumpeter/flugelhornist Joe Magnarelli has established a distinct identity within the broad parameters of the bop and hard bop idioms. Concord, Magnarelli's third release for the venerable SteepleChase Productions imprint, arguably his finest work in ...

Sam Dillon: My Ideal

by Jack Bowers
August 12, 2025

Any impartial assessment of My Ideal, Sam Dillon's second album for Cellar Music (following 2018's Out in the Open), should leave no doubt that the New York-born and based tenor saxophonist has definitely hit his stride, punctuating an already strong and persuasive voice on the horn with ample self-confidence and and a bounteous wellspring of innovative ...