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Brian Pareschi

Born and raised in Rochester, New York, New York based trumpeter/Composer/Arranger Brian Pareschi has a Masters of Music in Jazz Composition and Arranging from Manhattan School of Music, and a Bachelors of Arts in Biology from University of Rochester.

Brian is very active and in demand on the Jazz/Commercial music scene in New York, and can be heard on everything ranging from TV and film soundtracks to jazz and big band recordings, Broadway shows, and regularly performs in clubs all over NYC and the world. Brian has performed on the stages of many of the world's finest jazz festivals and concert halls, including The North Sea Festival, Umbria, Pori, Montreaux, Alandia Jazz Festival, New York's JVC Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center, City Center, and Carnegie Hall. Brian has toured and performed worldwide with a broad variety of artists, including Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Collins, Paul Anka, Bobby Caldwell, the New York City Ballet, the French National Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Harlem Nutcracker and the Orchestras of Quincy Jones, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, the Lincoln Center and Afro Latin Jazz Orchestras, Dave Liebman, Louis Bellson, Bob Mintzer, David Berger, Dave Matthews, Ken Peplowski, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Max Weinberg, and the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Orchestras. Brian has appeared on David Letterman, and worked with a who's who of pop and jazz notables, including Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson, James Ingram, Patti Austin, Chaka Kahn, Bobby Mc Ferrin, Kurt Elling, Toots Thielsmann, Michel Legrand, Bobby Caldwell, Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, Phil Woods, Frank Wess, Jerome Richardson, Jerry Dodgion, Jon Faddis, Kenny Wheeler, Sir Roland Hannah, Bobby Durham, John Hendricks, Chuck Israels, Bobby Watson, Michael Feinstein, The O Jays, The Four Tops and The New York Voices.

More recently Brian has been heard on the 2014 Tony Awards, the 2013 Mark Twain Prize for Humor, and on Barbra Streisand's newest CD/DVD Back To Brooklyn, recorded live while on tour in the Fall of 2012. Brian can be heard with world renowned jazz and stage vocalist Marilyn Maye, and with the Dave Liebman Orchestra. He can also be heard on upcoming and recent CD releases by The Dave Liebman Orchestra, Dave Matthews and the Manhattan Jazz Orchestra, Jazz vocalist Catherine Russell, vocalist Tom Wopat and John Schneider, jazz/blues artist Ron Sunshine and SNL comedian/vocalist Anna Gasteyer.

His first recording as a leader marks a welcome departure from his work and career as a top call sideman in New York. His octet/nonet, The BP Express, releases it's debut recording in January 2015, featuring a very talented array of prominent sidemen. The band is as he describes "an extrememly versatile ensemble that reaches out in new directions, while embracing the tradition of jazz. This is a mid-sized ensemble with the ability to maintain the intimacy of a small group, and yet also project the concerted, organized and often powerful sound of a larger ensemble." This marks the first of what will be many projects what will showcase both the range of his playing and the versatility and scope of his writing. Brian has a smaller group, a quintet, slated to perform and record as well, later this year.

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John La Barbera Big Band: Grooveyard

Read "Grooveyard" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Composer/arranger John La Barbera has been at the top of his game for more than half a century, and Grooveyard is simply another example of his undiminished artistry. Besides arranging everything--superbly, as always--La Barbera wrote six of the session's ten charming songs, escorting other treasures by Carl Perkins, Dave Brubeck, Curtis Fuller and Elvin Jones. As he writes his handsome and colorful big-band charts, La Barbera is always careful to observe Rule No. 1: they have to ...

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The John La Barbera Big Band: Grooveyard

Read "Grooveyard" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello


The geometry, if you will, of a terrific big band recording is such that the three major elements--the players, the arrangements, and the performance--balance in every regard. Grooveyard from the John La Barbera Big Band is such an offering. The album features ten masterfully selected, arranged, and performed selections, each containing outstanding section, solo, and ensemble playing. Wes Montgomery's “Grooveyard" launches a hip, swinging first course in which tenor man Pat La Barbera and guitarist Brandon Coleman ...

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Andy Farber and His Orchestra: Early Blue Evening

Read "Early Blue Evening" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Saxophonist Andy Farber's New York-based orchestra came together and cut its teeth as the onstage band for three hundred performances of After Midnight, a Broadway revue that paid tribute to Jazz Age nightclub luminaries from Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie to Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh. As one might presume from the orchestra's provenance, echoes of Ellington and Basie can readily be discerned on its first recording since After Midnight closed in 2014--but Farber, who wrote ...

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Jihye Lee: Daring Mind

Read "Daring Mind" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Korean-born composer Jihye Lee is a musician who knows her own mind, whether it be relentless, unshakable, revived, dissatisfied or Daring, as on her second recording for Motema Records. In 2018, Lee earned the prestigious BMI Charlie Parker Composition Prize for “Unshakable Mind," one of nine diverse themes presented here. Another, “I Dare You," is loosely based on Wayne Shorter's response when asked, “What is jazz?" It is a question Lee must also address, as her music is not only ...

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Jihye Lee: Daring Mind

Read "Daring Mind" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Solo un talento eccezionale come Jihye Lee poteva ottenere risultati così brillanti e personali nel campo dell'orchestrazione jazz partendo quasi da zero. Nata a Seoul ed emigrata negli Stati Uniti da adolescente, quando s'iscrisse al Berklee College conosceva pochissimo il linguaggio musicale afro-americano e per niente la sua dimensione orchestrale. Dopo un decennio, studi di perfezionamento alla Manhattan School of Music col grande Jim McNeely (a cui va riconosciuto parte del merito) e un primo eccellente debutto (April, 2017), la ...

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Jihye Lee Orchestra: Daring Mind

Read "Daring Mind" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


Listening to bandleader/composer Jihye Lee and her mic-drop orchestra is like watching your life flash before your eyes. You see it all: All the richness of spirit one can attain. All the sadness one can espouse. All the waltzing mischief to which one can aspire. Testing malleability at every turn, Lee's on to an eclectic something that doesn't pass through the torpor too often: A lucid, active imagination. Thus Daring Mind, Lee's Motema Music debut, co-produced by Darcy ...

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Mike Fahie Jazz Orchestra: Urban(e)

Read "Urban(e)" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


There's a rocky history surrounding jazz-classical hybrids. But, in truth, that has little to do with any potential incompatibility. Instead, it's usually misguided maneuvering and/or an excessive show of dominant traits from one side or the other that mars said unions. When done right a wedding of those worlds can truly birth brilliance. Just listen to Urban(e) for proof. Noted trombonist, composer, arranger and educator Mike Fahie's unabashed love for classical music and jazz is clear and ...

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"What is it about Rochester, NY and stellar Italian trumpet players? A smoking, first call side man that’s finally stepping out in his own, this bigish band date has a distinctly New York flavor that puts you right on 52nd Street when killer sounds were pouring out of every club door. Armed with undeniable chops, Pareschi delivers straight ahead jazz that cooks and is all fire with no smoke. Great sounds for jazz ears looking for that new kick." Chris Spector - Midwest Record -

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Grooveyard

Origin Records
2023

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Daring Mind

Motéma Music
2021

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Early Blue Evening

ArtistShare
2021

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Urban(e)

Greenleaf Music
2020

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And the BP Express

Self Produced
2015

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Grooveyard

From: Grooveyard
By Brian Pareschi

Revived Mind

From: Daring Mind
By Brian Pareschi

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