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Dave Stryker: Stryker with Strings Goes to the Movies

Read "Stryker with Strings Goes to the Movies" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 4, 2025

Guitarist Dave Stryker, who is at home in any venue, Goes to the Movies on this ambitious album, wherein his working quartet is greeted by a thirty-piece orchestra with strings and four talented guest artists. There are some gems here--Henry Mancini's “Dreamsville," Rodgers and Hammerstein's “Edelweiss," Ennio Morricone's theme from Cinema Paradiso among them--and a few ...

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Stryker with Strings Goes to the Movies

By Dave Stryker

Label: Strikezone Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: In Your Eyes; Cinema Paradiso (main theme); You Only Live Twice; Taxi Driver (main title); Theme from Shaft; Cavatina; Flirtibird; Low Key Lightly; Moonglow; Dreamsville; Edelweiss.

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Richard J Salvucci's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

by Richard J Salvucci
December 18, 2024

Bandleader Glenn Miller would introduce a part of his 1930s radio broadcast with the phrase “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue." If you review enough classic vinyl rereleases, you get plenty of something old. The new here is obvious and a joy to hear. Only problem is that it will be 2025 before making ...

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Dave Stryker: Groove Street

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by Richard J Salvucci
September 14, 2024

This is a throwback recording, but in a very good way. Time was someone could get in a car on a weekend morning, roll the window down, turn the FM up and drive to a happy place. It really did not matter much where: the music got you there because it was just that kind of ...

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The Dave Stryker Trio with Bob Mintzer: Groove Street

Read "Groove Street" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
January 12, 2024

The Dave Stryker Trio with tenor saxophonist Bob Mintzer is a captivating musical escapade. This collaboration not only showcases the talents of the two principals but also the two accompanying players, organist Jared Gold and drummer McClenty Hunter. Right from the initial notes of the opening track “Groove Street," a Dave Stryker ...

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Groove Street

By Dave Stryker

Label: Strikezone Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Groove Street; Overlap; Summit; Infant Eyes; Soulstice; Cold Duck Time; Code Blue; The More I See You; Straight Ahead.

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Prime

By Dave Stryker

Label: Strikezone Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Prime; Lockdown; Captain Jack; Hope; As We Were; Mac; I Should Care; Deep; Dude’s Lounge.

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The Dave Stryker Trio: Groove Street

Read "Groove Street" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 25, 2023

Guitarist Dave Stryker's latest album, Groove Street, is in fact “The Dave Stryker Trio with Bob Mintzer," a combination that is a sure bet to enhance its merit and heighten its import--a sentiment that is equally true when applied to any album on which the acclaimed tenor saxophonist sits in. Stryker and Mintzer ...

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Dave Stryker: Prime

by Jack Bowers
February 21, 2023

Guitarist Dave Stryker, a ubiquitous presence on the New York scene (and elsewhere) for more than three decades as a leader or sideman, is also a prolific recording artist with more than 35 albums under his belt (and many more than that as member of various ensembles) in formats ranging from big band to trio. On ...