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Sonny LaRosa
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Sonny LaRosa, formerly a trumpet player with Sam Donahue, among others, is the director, arranger and nurturer of America's Youngest Jazz Band. It's a big band and the players are from six to 12 years old. Sonny's band is one of the most unique and undoubtedly the only professional sounding SWING and JAZZ bands of its kind in the world. Not only did they recently win a gold medal at the International Music Festival, they were also the youngest jazz band ever to be invited to perform at the prestigious Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. The 23 piece band contains full Sax, Brass, and Rhythm sections with vocalists reminincent of the Big Band Era
All About Sonny
by Dom Minasi
I bet you thought I meant Sonny Rollins. When you hear the name Sonny, it's usually synonymous with Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt, Sonny Fortune or even Sonny Sharrock; all of them jazz heroes. But there is a Sonny you probably have never heard of before who is a super hero.Who is he? His name ...
28th Anniversary
By Sonny LaRosa
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2007
Track listing: Track listing: Bugle Call Rag; Sugar Blues; Satin Doll; Harlem Nocturne; Do Nothin
Sonny LaRosa and the World's Youngest Jazz Band: 28th Anniversary
by Jack Bowers
Nearly thirty years ago, trumpeter Sonny LaRosa, a transplanted New Yorker living in Florida, decided to use some of his spare time to do something productive. Gathering around him a handful of young wannabe musicians, the former professional trumpeter established America's Youngest Jazz Band, which has been growing in size and talent ever since. The band, ...
Live at the March of Jazz 2002
By Sonny LaRosa
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Released: 2003
Track listing: Introduction; Bugle Call Rag; Sugar Blues; Stormy Weather; Satin Doll; Harlem
Nocturne; Memories of You; Ain?t Misbehavin?; Stompin? at the Savoy; Don?t Know
Why; Do Nothin? Till You Hear from Me; Them There Eyes; Over the Rainbow; I?ve
Got a Crush on You; Swingin? the Blues; Stardust; I?m a Big Girl Now; Sophisticated
Lady; Lullaby of Broadway; I Want to Be Happy; Let?s Get Away; Bye Bye Blues;
Witchcraft; Exit comments. Bonus tracks -- Angel Eyes; Imagination; Everything
Happens to Me; I Should Care; Close to You (64:26).
Sonny LaRosa and America's Youngest Jazz Band: Live at the March of Jazz 2002
by Jack Bowers
How does one review the debut album by Sonny LaRosa and America's Youngest Jazz Band (which, by the way, is no exaggeration)? It's not enough merely for the reviewer to observe that it leaves him grinning from ear to ear. He must also describe the music. But would that be fair to the musicians or their ...
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