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Buselli / Wallarab Jazz Orchestra: The Gennett Suite

Read "The Gennett Suite" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


This is where music for mass consumption--recorded music--started, in Richmond, Indiana, in the 1920s, in a piano factory by the railroad tracks in a glacier-carved gorge. Established in 1887, in the beginning Starr Pianos' bread and butter was pianos, but they branched out to selling other instruments and eventually photographs and records--their own records, recorded in the piano factory, taking breaks in the process when a train came by. At first, they called their recording side of the business Starr ...

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Luke Gillespie: Moving Mists

Read "Moving Mists" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Insegnante di piano jazz all'Indiana University e leader di un trio, Luke Gillespie ha mostrato in altri dischi di saper rileggere con inventiva il songbook jazzistico, aggiungendo personali doti d'autore. Vive e opera lontano da New York in una dimensione apparata ma il suo pianismo non è inferiore a quello di artisti più noti. Nel suo stile troviamo influenze di Ahmad Jamal e una chiara sensibilità classica ma Gillespie è a suo agio anche in clima bop. Nato ...

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Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra: Happenstance

Read "Happenstance" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Almost every year, it seems, a marvelous new big band comes out of nowhere to bowl me over and leave an irrepressible smile on my face. In '98, the mile--wide grin was occasioned by the high--flying Hawk--Richard Jazz Orchestra from Austin, TX, followed last year by trumpeter Kevin Seeley's dazzling Emerald City ensemble from Seattle, WA. As the new millennium dawns I'm smiling rhapsodically again, and the impetus this time is the sharp and swinging Mark Buselli--Brent Wallarab Jazz Orchestra ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

The Gennett Suite

Patrois Records
2023

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Moving Mists

Patois Records
2019

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Happenstance

Midcoast Music
2000

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Dippermouth Blues

From: The Gennett Suite
By Luke Gillespie

Blues For All

From: Moving Mists
By Luke Gillespie

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