Eastman alum Maria Schneider and her orchestra deliver an epic take on the digital world with the double-disc collection “Data Lords.”
Gary Versace
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Utility player
Eastman School professor Gary Versace’s roles on multiple instruments, in concert halls and on records, span the globe and several genres.
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Album review: ‘Chamber Jazz’
On “Chamber Jazz,” Eastman School of Music professor Charles Pillow filters elements of great French Impressionist composers like Ravel and Debussy through a jazz sensibility.
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Jazz Fest 2019, Day 7: Ron reviews George Coleman Quartet, Gary Versace with Scott Robinson, and Elda Trio
Night of the giants John Nugent, the CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival’s artistic director, typically introduces the Kilbourn Hall concerts, but this time he came out with a saxophone. Nugent choked up as he described hearing George Coleman’s solo on “Stella by Starlight” on a Miles Davis album while he was a student at West […]
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Album review: ‘Flatbed Buggy’
Rudy Royston ‘Flatbed Buggy’ Greenleaf Music rudyroyston.com In his Sixth Symphony, Ludwig van Beethoven evokes everything from folk dances to thunderstorms to capture the beauty of the countryside. On the wonderful new album “Flatbed Buggy,” Rudy Royston takes a similar journey, employing a variety of musical styles to paint a vivid, aural picture of his […]
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John Abercrombie
Fusion music didn’t exist when guitarist John Abercrombie plied his craft at a Boston supper club in the late 1960’s.
