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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

Force & Grace

By Diego Rivera

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Crisis; First Light; Latina; Brigitte; On The Que-Tee; Little Sunflower; Gibraltar; D Minor Mint; Sky Dive; Happy Times; Lament For Booker; Soul Surge.

Blue Moods: Force & Grace

by David A. Orthmann
February 21, 2025

Blue Moods' Force & Grace is the third in a series of Posi-Tone releases in which music of under-recognized jazz composers is given a fair shake by bands comprised of some of the label's leading lights. This time around, the group features 12 compositions by Freddie Hubbard, a figure revered for his prowess as a trumpeter, ...

Vibrant Sensational Guitarist Oscar Peñas Makes It At Iridium

February 11, 2025

Oscar Peñas May 29 at 8:30 PM The Iridium, NYC The Band Oscar Peñas: compositions—electric guitar Corentin LeHir: bass Vinnie Sperrazza: drums Jazz guitarist Oscar Peñas, originally from Barcelona, Spain, has significantly impacted the New York music scene since relocating in 2007. After earning his Masters degree from the prestigious New England ...

I Dischi del 2024 secondo Ludovico Granvassu

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 2, 2025

Spesso molti articoli sulle “migliori uscite dell'anno" iniziano con una premessa quasi apologetica ("questi non sono necessariamente 'i migliori album dell'anno,' ma 'i miei preferiti';" “è tutto soggettivo;" “domani avrei scelto titoli diversi;" “ho potuto selezionare solo dieci album," ecc.)? Queste dichiarazioni sembrano riflettere il disagio del redattore, costretto a riassumere un vasto ecosistema artistico selezionando ...

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2024

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 31, 2024

Have you noticed how many “best of the year" listicles start with an apologetic preamble ("these are not necessarily 'the best albums of the year' but 'my favorites';" “it's all subjective;" “tomorrow I might have chosen different titles;" “I could only select ten albums" etc.)? Those disclaimers channel the writer's discomfort of having to summarize a ...

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.

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.

Swing & Soul

By Diego Rivera

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.

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.