Tipitina ist ein New Orleans Music Standard, der u.a. auch von Dr. John und Hugh Laurie aufgenommen worden ist. Er wurde von dem Pianisten Henry Roeland "Roy" Byrd, besser bekannt als Professor Longhair komponiert. 2011 erhielt Byrd den Grammy Hall of Fame Award für diesen Titel. Tipitina is a New Orleans Music Standard, performed by many jazz musicians, among them dr. John and Hugh Laurie. It was composed by pianist Henry Roeland "Roy" Byrd, better known as Professor Longhair. In 2011, Byrd received the Grammy Hall of Fame Award for this title.
This past spring I was fortunate to be selected as the recipient of the Hearstudios Recording Residency by Berklee Faculty Development. We spent a week in this fantastic space, recording volume 2 of "Lello's Italian Job" The CD will be released on Friday March 9th Musica Productions Presents : Lello’s Italian Job ‘Volume 2’ CD release party
FEATURING: LELLO MOLINARI - ACOUSTIC & ELECTRIC BASS
MARCO PIGNATARO - SAXES, CLARINET, FLUTE & EWI
SAL DIFUSCO - ACOUSTIC & ELECTRIC GUITAR
MARCELLO PELLITTERI - DRUMS & PERCUSSIONS
Bassist/Bandleader Lello Molinari returns to his Italian roots, reimagines classic repertoire in stunning modern Jazz settings. Lello's Italian Job, Volume 2 features Italian and Italian-American musicians transforming folk and popular songs and classical arias from throughout Italy's rich musical history.
It's often been said that "you can't go home again" - but with his Italian Job project, Lello Molinari proves that old cliché wrong. The acclaimed bassist has not only returned to his Italian roots, but brought with him three decades of experience as a bandleader, an educator, and a virtuosic bassist with his fingers on the pulse of modern jazz. Now he views the unparalleled musical traditions of his homeland through the lens of a lifetime's worth of accumulated musical knowledge, creating something that's both Old World and New, deeply personal while reflecting a profound tradition.
This is Lello Molinari's 5th Cd as a Leader. "Lello's Italian Job" Volume 2. The second installment on a project that started in 2014 when they released this project's first Cd. "Lello's Italian Job" is an exploration of open improvisation and the arranging of Italian music, ranging from traditional folk music, to classical arias, to popular songs through Jazz interpretation. On this Cd there is music from Mascagni, Respighi, Pino Daniele, Renato Carosone and more. Lello plays both Acoustic & Electric Bass, sometime with loops, Dino Govoni plays Tenor & Soprano Saxes, Flute, Clarinet & EWI, Sal DiFusco plays Acoustic & Electric Guitars and Mandolin, Marcello Pellitteri plays Drums and Percussions. Some of the tunes are completely acoustic and some are electric, some are classical pieces, some are straight ahead Jazz tracks, some have a New Orleans feel to it, some are completely improvised and some are through-composed. It will constantly surprise and delight the listener with turns at every corner, and yet there is a homogenous feel to the CD and a specific direction to this project. Lello returns to the RegattaBar, to celebrate the release of his latest CD, where he has appeared many times before and where he recorded his second Cd live "On a Boston Night" released on Accurate Records in 1995. More info
For over three decades Tony Dagradi has made his home in New Orleans, performing on tenor and soprano sax with many of the Crescent City's most celebrated artists, including Ellis Marsalis, Allen Toussaint, James Booker, The Meters, Dr. John, James Black, Johnny Adams and Gatemouth Brown. An internationally recognized performer, composer, author, artist and educator, he's often called upon to augment the woodwind section of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. His performing past includes five years as a member of the internationally acclaimed Carla Bley band and appearances with Bobby McFerrin, Mose Allison and Nat Adderly.
Dagradi is most well known for his work with Astral Project, an adventurous quartet made up of top New Orleans players dedicated to playing cutting-edge improvisational music. Over the years the band has performed throughout the world, garnering universal praise as one of the most innovative, compelling jazz bands anywhere.
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“Tony Dagradi is the optimal front man. His singing tenor and soprano saxophone style is a compendium of jazz history, blending the verbose blues of CannonballAdderley with more current “outside” trends.” - James Rozzi, Jazziz
"Tony Dagradi runs harmonic mazes with aplomb. (On tenor, Dagradi is virile and fleet, on soprano he's a pastoral piper - take your pick)." - Chris Waddington, NOLA.com
“A fiercely compelling improviser (and) an accomplished composer.” - Bill Milkowski, Downbeat
“…spiritually intense tenor.” – Howard Reich, Chicago Tribune
"Dagradi wrings each note for all its is worth, striving for simplicity as he makes each solo a song unto itself." – Gene Kalbacher, New Jersey Notes
“Dagradi plays with exuberance and power.” – Cadence
“Dagradi’s technique on soprano and especially tenor is evocative and exultant. Like so many tenor players, Dagradi speaks of a period when he was ‘totally immersed in Trane.’ To his credit, the…saxophonist manages to capture the spiritual strength Coltrane so elegantly epitomized.” - Norman Provizer, Jazziz
“One gets the impression, when listening to Dagradi, of being in the presence of a great storyteller and the music asserts that feeling. More than anything else Dagradi gives the essence of freedom and fire without a feeling of too much looseness. Also, it is important to mention Dagradi’s strong feel for rhythm. He makes it his own, including a great control of dynamics…a highly gifted and uncompromising saxophonist.” - Tim Price, Saxophone Journal
This is a limited availability, limited time special sale of Indonesian artists' albums (CD format only) on MoonJune. Shipping is $4 (USA), $10 (Canada), $12.50 (the rest of the world) for each bundle.
Celebrate Women’s History Month with a performance by Mimi Jones and her latest project The Black Madonna featuring Jones, Leonor Falcon, Nir Felder, and Darrian Douglas. Almost all of the pieces in this contemporary jazz concert are composed by Jones, whose music is a fusion of styles including jazz, funk, folk, and rock. more>>
AMAAN ALI BANGASH and AYAAN ALI BANGASH, with members of the Bronx Arts Ensemble in a collaboration of classical traditions, join with India’s Ayaan Ali Bangash to perform his original compositions, designed to weave together the cultures of the East & West. more>>
After years of creative processing and tremendous work, my new ud album ‘Ageless garden’ is recorded and available for its listeners.
‘Music has been the best language with which to express my inner world for more than 30 years. And for the last 20 years, ud has been the main instrument on this journey. I composed these ten compositions during different phases of my life as a migrant musician. And I play them on this album through the lens of my vision of today.’
Guest musicians on the album:
Alper Kekec (Turkey) Darbuka, daf and frame drums
Pasha Karami (Iran) Tombak
Shaho Andalibi (Iran) Ney
Yama Sarshar (Afghanistan) Tabla
Zoumana Diarra (Mali) Kora
On the Beat Jazz nominations in the 2017 Grammys focus on where it all started - the US of A. Jazz FM Awards: will this year's winners trump last year's champs, the Rolling Stones? Wynton's Barbican youth band focuses on the 1957 Miles Ahead, purporting to showcase what "could be the future of jazz”
ECM: the British connection With separation looming, Brian Morton notes that music is a lingua franca that doesn’t require passports
Profiles British pianist Kit Downes loves the duo; US tuba virtuoso Howard Johnson enjoys the choral possibilities in the tuba family; Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca appreciates having the clave, “something everyone wants to learn”, in his blood
On the Other Hand Dave Gelly isn’t troubled by Jon Hendricks’ joy and positivity or Sam Braysher’s rediscovery of songbook blueprints
Joe Henderson Ronald Atkins interviewed the singular saxophonist stylist in 1995 as he was enjoying an unexpected second coming
Roger Beaujolais The vibraphonist tells Bruce Lindsay why Connie Kay played so softly in the MJQ
Standard time? Simon Spillett asks if the Great American Songbook should still be the arbiter in jazz clubs
