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Vinnie Sperrazza

Vinnie Sperrazza is a Brooklyn-based jazz drummer. His first album as a bandleader and composer, Apocryphal, was released by Loyal Label on Tuesday, September 9, 2014. Originally from a small town south of Utica, New York, Vin moved to NYC a million years ago, just after the glaciers melted but before Tower Records closed. He's played lots and lots of good music with many amazing musicians, but he feels really self-conscious about dropping names and all that so he's just not going to do it, save mentioning the late great Mr. James Williams, pianist, with whom Vin played many memorable concerts. He feels incredibly lucky to have music in his life, to be able to work with great musicians, and to be able to present his music to an appreciative audience. He's in lots of bands, spent the summer of 2014 as an actor (he played a drummer- not much of a stretch), is on some cool records that have either just come out or will come out this year (Dana Lyn/Vincent D'Onofrio Slim Bone Head Volt, Jacob Garchik Ye Olde), and as of this writing, just got off the road with the band Hearing Things, led by Matt Bauder

Swing & Soul

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: ESP; Chili Peppers; Each Time I Think Of You; You Know I Care; Idle Moments; Sweet Honey Bee; Gaslight; Ready Rudy; Is That So?; Big Bertha.

Outing

By Mike McGinnis

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Rollover; Incantation; Transformations; A Nice Boy/Discover Laughing; Stand In The River; Roundtable; The Gospel Of Bone Drye; Shiny Stockings.

Town of Two Faces

By The Choir Invisible

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Membrane; Lockwood; 21 Years; Stones Covers; In Heaven feat. Fay Victor; 17 East; Sustained Imagination; The Audition; Okay for Now; Town of Two Faces.

Technically Acceptable

By Ethan Iverson

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Conundrum; Victory is Assured (Alla Breve); Technically Acceptable; Who Are You, Really?; The Chicago Style;I t’s Fine to Decline; The Way Things Are; Killing Me Softly With His Song; ‘Round Midnight; The Feeling is Mutual; Piano Sonata: Allegro Moderato; Piano Sonata: Andante; Piano Sonata: Rondo.

Luke Carlos O'Reilly, Vinnie Sperrazza, Brad Mehldau, Jean-Christophe Cholet & More

by Ludovico Granvassu
April 13, 2024

A soulful rendition of Curtis Fuller's “Mini Mama," and two recent albums featuring Vinnie Sperrazza open an edition of Mondo Jazz which then features three projects at the intersection of jazz and classical music.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Luke Carlos O'Reilly “Mini Mama" ...

Alice Coltrane, Kaze, Michael Attias & The Fully Celebrated Orchestra

by Maurice Hogue
March 26, 2024

Did you know 2024 has been designated as the Year Of Alice? Impulse Records and the John and Alice Coltrane Home are celebrating Alice this year through special events and new releases. The first album to appear is Alice Coltrane--The Carnegie Hall Concert with all unreleased tracks from a terrific band. This concert in 1971 was ...

The Choir Invisible with Charlotte Greve, Vinnie Sperrazza and Chris Tordini: Town of Two Faces

by Glenn Astarita
March 4, 2024

Infused with an inventive and organic zest, Town of Two Faces swings into the spotlight under the deft ensemble of Charlotte Greve on alto saxophone or voice, Vinnie Sperrazza on drums, Chris Tordini on acoustic bass. It is graced by a cameo from Fay Victor, a voice which paints jazz in bold uncharted colors, with her ...

John Zorn’s Masada, Tommy Flanagan, Jeff Parker

by David Brown
February 27, 2024

This week a trio of works featuring guitarist Jeff Parker, we then work our way tough a pile of recently acquired '80s LPs featuring lots of Tommy Flanagan, some Mulgrew Miller and Ronnie Mathews; and finally, we revisit John Zorn's Masada Quartet--leaders of the Radical Jewish Cultural movement of the '90s--who made their first recordings 30 ...

Blue Moods: Swing & Soul

by David A. Orthmann
February 3, 2024

Swing & Soul is the second in a series of recordings by Blue Moods, one of the projects initiated by Posi-Tone Records producer Marc Free to attract new listeners to jazz. The release showcases a collection of compositions by pianist Duke Pearson, an underrecognized figure who worked for Blue Note as an A&R man, arranger, and ...