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Russ Spiegel

Born: March 30, 1962

Groovy, swinging, and sophisticated at the same time, versatile guitarist and composer Russ Spiegel hits all the right notes. Covering a wide variety of styles from rock and blues to funk and Latin and hard-swinging modern and post-modern jazz, Russ has been garnering rave reviews for his performances all around the world.

Russ Spiegel is a commissioned composer and arranger as well as a highly respected international guitarist, bandleader, writer, musicologist, and award-winning sound engineer. He received his undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and continued his studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston

Nova Jazz Orchestra / UNT One O'Clock Lab Band / Frank Macchia / Omar Sosa & NDR Big Band

by Jack Bowers
March 5, 2010

Nova Jazz Orchestra A Time of Reckoning NJO 2010 If the premise that experience is the best teacher is indeed accurate, one need look no further than the Minnesota-based Nova Jazz Orchestra for proof. Nova, sponsored by the non-profit Nova Jazz Corporation, has been together for more than 15 years, ...

Glenn Cashman / UAB SuperJazz / Elliot Deutsch Big Band / Russ Spiegel Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
January 6, 2010

Glenn Cashman And the Southland Big Band! Primrose Lane Music 2009 Even though Glenn Cashman's superlative Southland Big Band makes its home (technically) south of the Mason-Dixon Line, it is more than a few miles removed from cotton fields, mint juleps and the Mississippi River--to be more precise, in the ...

The Russ Spiegel Jazz Orchestra: Transplants

By Russ Spiegel

Label: RuzzTone Music
Released: 2007
Track listing: Count Up The Very Thought of You Kangaroo Number One Chain Reaction Undertow I Let a Song Out of My Heart The Rub I Should Care

Chimera

By Russ Spiegel

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Chimera; Polychrome World; The Last March; Cherokee; Wo Bleibt Die Seele; Good Night; Herr Boehnke.

Russ Spiegel: Chimera

by Jerry D'Souza
September 26, 2007

Guitarist Russ Spiegel has come a long way from the time when he was influenced by rock and spent a decade playing that music. The self-confessed latecomer to jazz shows firm grasp of the vocabulary as he takes different forms and builds them into a cohesive unit. Spiegel wrote six of the tunes on this venture, ...

Russ Spiegel: Chimera

by Troy Collins
July 20, 2007

Chimera is guitarist Russ Spiegel's fourth album and first for Steeplechase. His previous releases include a rock record, a live big band recording and a mainstream date for Doublemoon (2001's Twilight). This sextet session finds him in the company of an adventurous and like-minded set of peers. Channeling the spirited energy of hard-bop with the progressive ...

Twilight

By Russ Spiegel

Label: Double Moon Records
Released: 2002
Track listing: Jeannine Twilight Number One Do Nothin' Till You Hear From Me Giant Steps Brother Grimm Peaceful Fourth Floor The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Russ Spiegel Big Band - Live in Europe!

By Russ Spiegel

Label: Oomph!
Released: 1930

Monky

By Russ Spiegel

Label: Mongothrob
Released: 1998
Track listing: Bird Droppings; Did Not; Monky; Lydian Dream; P-Nose; The Grazing Land; Unruly Julie