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Ugonna Okegwo

Ugonna Okegwo is one of the most distinctive and sought-after jazz bassists in the world. Critics across the globe have praised him for his rich tone, supple sense of swing, stylistic range and inventiveness. These qualities have not only earned him a place on the bandstand with jazz legends as diverse as Clark Terry, Benny Golson, Pharoah Sanders and Joseph Jarman--they have established him as one of the leading lights of a younger generation redefining jazz for the new century. "He is very individualistic, both in his soloing and accompanying. I love the way he plays in the ensemble,” says Tom Harrell, with whom Okegwo has worked for several years

Riverside

By Oz Noy

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: All the Things You Are; Anthropology; Have You Met Miss Jones; Billie's Bounce; Riverside Blues; 6/8 Lunch Break; Out of Nowhere; Donna Lee; This Could Be the Start of Something Big; Sunny.

Ballads: Into the Heart of it

Label: Panorama Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Blue in Green; Le Sucrier Velours (Queens Suite); Reflections; My One and Only Love; The Heart of it; Kiss Lonely Goodbye; Si, See; If You Could See Me Now; The Four Margarets; Big Mac.

Trios, Duos and Solos

by Jerome Wilson
July 15, 2022

This show focuses mainly on the smallest units of jazz interaction, trios and duos, with a couple of solo performances thrown in along the way. Artists heard on the program include Matthew Shipp, the collective trio Air, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Adam Larson and Bill Frisell. There is also a special mention of bassist Charnett Moffett, who passed ...

The Art of the (Guitar) Trio

by Geno Thackara
April 26, 2022

One simple format truly can allow for endless possibilities. For yet another exhibit, here are half a dozen that could hardly be more different from each other. Orion Tango The In Between 1k Recordings 2022 If Orion Tango was adventurous and loud in the Before Times (and they ...

Meet Vocalist Anais Reno

by Sanford Josephson
March 1, 2022

This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. When she was eight years old, Anais Reno (now 18) began taking voice lessons from singer/songwriter Sarah Tolar. “I feel very grateful to her," Reno said, “because after a couple of months of working together, she sensed that maybe some older American Songbook music would be ...

Pete Malinverni: On the Town: Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein

by Pierre Giroux
January 13, 2022

The presumptive title of this release is On The Town, but in reality it covers more than just the music from that titled 1944 Leonard Bernstein Broadway musical. The ever thoughtful and vivid pianist Pete Malinverni along with his savvy and accomplished companions bassist Ugonna Okegwo and drummer Jeff Hamilton have made this release an oeuvre ...

Pete Malinverni: On the Town: Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein

by Jack Bowers
January 10, 2022

Pianist Pete Malinverni's album, On the Town, is subtitled “Plays Leonard Bernstein," and it's an homage he has wanted to put on record for many years—ever since he met Bernstein in person while performing at an opening-night party for a production of the opera Tosca at the Met in NYC. Bernstein, he recalls, spent much of ...

On the Town: Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein

By Pete Malinverni

Label: Planet Arts Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: New York New York; Lucky To Be Me; Somewhere; Cool; Simple Song; I Feel Pretty; Lonely Town; Some Other Time; It's Love; A Night On The Town.

My Conversation with Tom Harrell

by AAJ Staff
June 20, 2021

We rummaged through our extensive pre-database archive and discovered a May 1999 interview with Tom Harrell, who celebrated his 75th birthday this past week. We published two other interviews with Tom: November 2003 and May 2009. AAJ: Do you recall when you were first exposed to jazz? TH: Well, I was fortunate ...