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Kenny Reichert: Deep Breath
by Richard J Salvucci
Kenny Reichert is a jny:Chicago-based guitarist of broad background, Berklee training, and wide-ranging tastes in pop and jazz. He has self-released one studio album, Interpretations (2015). Reichert records mostly originals. If you are looking for influences, Spears" (a play on Sphere"?) sounds Thelonious Sphere Monk-ish enough, with plenty of solo space for saxophonist Tony Barba woven in. Barba can hold his own with anyone. Reichert does not shy away from vocals either. His lyricist and singer is Alyssa ...
read moreTony Barba: Blood Moon
by Friedrich Kunzmann
Madison-based saxophonist Tony Barba is a sonic chameleon, able to wrap catchy melodic themes around a variety of different genres. His ear for melodies is on full display on his newest outing for the Midwestern label Shifting Paradigm Records. In interplay with Chicagoan guitarist Matt Gold and the Madison-based rhythm section of John Christensen on bass and Devin Drobka on drums, Blood Moon sees Barba drawing from reggae as much as from pop and country, together interpreted with jazzy sensibilities ...
read moreTony Barba's New Album Facetime Now Available!
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Facetime is now available through Layered Records. This Rock/Jazz trio features Tony Barba on tenor sax and bansuri, Patrick Mulcahy on electric bass, and Conor Elmes on drums. From Layered's website: A veteran NYC saxophonist/composer now residing in Chicago, Tony Barba has leapt between improvised music, punk rock, jazz (or pretty much anything that can be honked out through a saxophone) and somehow landed on the sound for his new trio's album, Facetime. The record is an amped up romp, ...
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The tenor saxophonist Tony Barba emanates an amiable extroversion in his music, drawing on a world of sources. -Nate Chinen, NY Times 1/2009
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