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Hiring a Publicist: Is It Worth It?
by Kathy Sanborn
"Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!" --P. T. Barnum Jazz artists strive to make the best albums possible, choosing the best songs, selecting other musicians to interpret those songs, and recording the pieces with artistic and technical skill. When their masterpieces are complete, it does not all end there. The artist or band ...
Ron Aprea Pays Tribute to John Lennon and the Beatles
By Ron Aprea
Label: Early Autumn Productions
Released: 2015
Track listing: Let It Be; Imagine; Norwegian Wood; Yesterday; Happy Christmas; Can't Buy Me Love; Here, There and Everywhere; Blackbird; Something; Fool on the Hill; Whatever Gets You Through the Night; Goodnight.
Ron Aprea: On John Lennon, Jazz Legends, And Life In Music
by Dan Bilawsky
Picture this: The year is 1974 and you've just gotten off the road with Lionel Hampton. The phone rings, and on the other end of the line is an old buddy of yours. After a little small talk, he asks if you're available for a recording session. You indicate that you're free and ask him about ...
Ron Aprea: Ron Aprea Pays Tribute to John Lennon and the Beatles
by Nicholas F. Mondello
The John Lennon-Paul McCartney canon has been recorded by everyone with the possible exception of “Honey Boo Boo" and “Mini Me." Some of those efforts are feckless attempts at moving the popular-genre so far away from its source it is laughable. Saxophone artist, Ron Aprea had the unique opportunity (along with trumpeter Steve ...
Top 15 "Most Read" Interviews: 2014
by Michael Ricci
All About Jazz tracks how often an interview is read, and the interviews listed below represent our top 15 published in 2014. Ron Aprea's Tribute to John Lennon by Nicholas F. Mondello Published: August 19, 2014 Takuya Kuroda: Rising Son by DanMichael Reyes ...
Ron Aprea's Tribute to John Lennon
by Nicholas F. Mondello
We recently caught up with saxophonist, composer/arranger and educator/clinician, Ron Aprea and spoke with him about recent activities and his current recording project--his personal John Lennon/Beatles tribute. All About Jazz: The last half of 2013 and the time so far in 2014 have been quite positive for you. Let me ask you first ...
Practice, Do You? Part 2-3
by Dom Minasi
Continued from Part 1 I began studying the guitar when I was seven years old. I hated my teacher and I didn't practice much, but when I changed teachers' and I went to Joe Geneli, I regained a love for the guitar that I first had when I was four years old when I ...
Remembering Blakey
By Ron Aprea
Label: Early Autumn Productions
Released: 2013
Track listing: Flown The Coop; Minor Setback; My Foolish Heart; Latino; In A Minor
Funk; Goodbye; Transition Blues; Andrea's Delight; Sophia; Cherokee;
Lover Man; For Pete's Sake.
Ron Aprea: Passion Supreme
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Ron Aprea is a saxophonist's saxophonist. After all, none less than the late, great Frank Foster called him friend, confidant, section mate and leader. And Foster wasn't alone in this regard. Aprea has been a mainstay and graced the sax section in the bands of Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman and many others. A multi-faceted musician with ...
Ron Aprea: Remembering Blakey
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Legendary drummer Art Blakey, he of the eponymous Jazz Messengers, is regularly attributed with saying: “Jazz washes away the dust of everyday life." Well, if that's the case, this superb recording from saxophonist Ron Aprea and his cleaning crew certainly left the studio spotless, and themselves, to be somewhat crude but oh-so accurate, assless.This ...
