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East West Trumpet Summit: Coast to Coast
By Ray Vega
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: One Day at a Time; I Told You So; You've Changed; Broadway; Art Deco; Girl Talk; Quarter Nelson; Front Row
Family; So Long Eric.
Coast to Coast
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: One Day at a Time; I Told You So; You've Changed; Broadway; Art Deco; Girl Talk; Quarter Nelson;
Front Row Family; So Long Eric.
Overtones
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Night by Night; Bossa for PK; Blues by Eight; Hortense; Lover Man; Over #21; Ground Up;
Rickey Speaking.
Ray Vega & Thomas Marriott East West Trumpet Summit: Coast to Coast
by Jack Bowers
Coast to Coast is the third East West Trumpet Summit recorded by Ray Vega and Thomas Marriott in a musical partnership that has spanned nearly three decades. The years have been kind, and when it comes to playing persuasive jazz, neither Vega nor Marriott appears to have lost a step. Marriott, a native of Seattle, and ...
Ray Vega & Thomas Marriott East West Trumpet Summit: Coast to Coast
by Paul Rauch
For some people, the whole notion of an east-west summit of anything in jazz brings up the perceived differences over time between American west coast jazz and its east coast counterpart. The basic premise is that jazz on the American west coast is a cousin to the cool jazz movement, a calmer, less soulful part of ...
One Day at a Time
Album: East West Trumpet Summit: Coast to Coast
By Ray Vega
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 05:18
MIke Melito: To Swing Is The Thing
by Pierre Giroux
Rochester NY native Mike Melito is an fine drummer who has been active on the jazz scene for many years. His whose drumming style was inspired by Roy McCurdy, who was an integral part of the jazz groups fronted by both Nat Adderley and Julian “Cannonball" Adderley. With a wide-ride cymbal beat and fluid phrasing, Melito's ...
Doug MacDonald: Overtones
by Jack Bowers
The term “all-star" is not one to be used lightly. Be that as it may, the appellation fits guitarist Doug MacDonald's Los Angeles-based octet as snugly as a glove; he and his colleagues are among the finest, most experienced and in-demand musicians on the West Coast. On Overtones, recorded in September 2021, the ensemble shows its ...
Meet Abe Goldstien
by Tessa Souter and Andrea Wolper
You can have your “Dry Cleaner From Des Moines"--we're putting our money on our latest jazz Super Fan from Des Moines. Former adman Abe Goldstien lists his passions as his wife, his two children, and jazz. Retired though he may be, Abe doesn't show any signs of slowing down, keeping up a busy schedule volunteering for ...
Doug MacDonald: Overtones
by Richard J Salvucci
Some of you may well remember Arthur Conley's 1967 chart-topper, “Sweet Soul Music." The lyrics began with the imperishable line, “Do you like good music?" That may resonate with listeners of a certain age, because Overtones: Doug MacDonald and the L.A. All Star Octet certainly qualifies as “good music." What is it about West Coast stuff ...
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