Results for "Rupe Media"

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The Ripple

Label: Rupe Media
Released: 2020
Track listing: Bahia; Go-Go; Stardust; Without a Song; The Shadow of Your Smile; Detour Ahead; The Red Door; Red Top; Hoboken: Beauty Becomes Her; Lester Left Town; Alone Together.

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW April 28, 2020

Jeff Rupert/George Garzone: The Ripple

By JIM WORSLEY

The Ripple refers to the infectious, warm, intimate, yet big sound developed by the great Lester Young, starting in the late 1930s. While Young pioneered improvisational creativity, Stan Getz later took the baton (well, it was actually a saxophone) and further expanded his idol's stylish approach with new and creatively open-ended visions. Young and Getz collectively ...

ARTICLE: MULTIPLE REVIEWS March 23, 2020

Two Twin-Tenor Duos

By JEROME WILSON

The idea of two tenor saxophonists playing together has a long, storied history in jazz through pairings like Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray, Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, and Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. Such duos have become harder to find in recent years but here are two newer examples. Jeff Rupert / ...

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R&D

By RICHARD DREXLER

Label: Rupe Media
Released: 2018
Track listing: The Song Is You; Someday; O Grande Amor; Edelweiss; Johnny Come Lately; Imagination; The Night Has a Thousand Eyes; Soul Eyes.

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW December 24, 2018

Jeff Rupert & Richard Drexler: R&D

By GEANNINE REID

Rupert and Drexler are at it again, on the heels of their successful release Imagination (Rupe Media, 2017), now with the second unreleased selection of cuts captured from a portion of two nights by saxophonist Jeff Rupert and pianist Richard Drexler at the Timucua Arts White House in Orlando in June of 2015. The tracks have ...

ARTICLE: ALBUM REVIEW October 9, 2018

Rupert & Drexler: R&D

By MIKE JURKOVIC

Between them, longtime collaborators (and University of Central Florida professors), saxophonist Jeff Rupert and pianist Richard Drexler have played on hundreds of recordings ranging from Diane Schuur, Mel Torme, Sam Rivers, Mose Allison, Tony Bennett and the Woody Herman Orchestra, to name just a few. So it comes as no surprise that R & D, recorded ...