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Jim Levendis: The Big Band Project
by Jack Bowers
Jim Levendis knew that time was running out. In his mid-seventies, the veteran Philadelphia-area trumpeter and educator had contracted ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), the effects of which were rapidly sapping his energy and ability to function. As the disease progressed, Levendis confided in Len Pierro, a band mate in the Ward Marston band, that there was one thing he would dearly love to do while he was still able: record some of the big-band arrangements he had written over the ...
read moreThe Len Pierro Jazz Orchestra: The Third Quarter
by Edward Blanco
Flourtown, PA native Len Pierro unveils one monster big band album that will be reverberating well beyond the boundaries of Pennsylvania and from radio studios throughout the jazz landscape for quite a long time. The Third Quarter is The Len Pierro Jazz Orchestra's recent offering and what an offering of fresh original compositions and re-imagined jazz standards it is. The 63-year-old saxophonist has produced one heck of an album of traditional straight-ahead swinging jazz that defines what ...
read moreThe Len Pierro Jazz Orchestra: The Third Quarter
by Jack Bowers
Any big-band album that opens with a rollicking Four Brothers-style saxophone soli is all but guaranteed to capture one's ear and interest. As it turns out, the buoyant Fill in the Gap," on which the sax section sparkles, is but the first of many sonic delights on The Third Quarter, a marvelous new CD by Philadelphia-based composer / arranger Len Pierro and his world-class Jazz Orchestra. Simply put, there are no discernible blemishes to mar a bright and picturesque tour ...
read moreRon Kerber: 'Round in Circles
by Paul Olson
Philadelphia saxman Ron Kerber may be making his debut as a leader on 'Round in Circles , but he shows nothing but a veteran's poise on this collection of nine of his own original compositions. Kerber plays alto, tenor and soprano sax, and he demonstrates his aptitude for all three horns over an incredibly sympatico rhythm section of his fellow Philadelphians (drummer Joe Nero, bassist Howie Thompson, and a alternating tag-team of de facto Dreambox house pianist Jim Ridl and ...
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Fill In The Gap
From: The Third QuarterBy Ron Kerber
Eleanor Rigby / Norweigian Wood Medley
From: Angel Blue: A Tour of JazzBy Ron Kerber