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John Yarling

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Jorge Garcia: Dedicated to You

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Gigi Gryce's turbo-charged “Minority," which opens Cuban-born guitarist Jorge Garcia's Dedicated to You, serves as a reminder of how much talent the world lost when alto saxophonist Richie Cole died in May 2020. And if that weren't enough to persuade any doubters, the vibrant “This One's for Richie" (based, appropriately, on the standard “There Will Never Be Another You") readily affirms that opinion. While, alas, those are the only tracks on which Cole performs, they alone make the album well ...

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South Florida Jazz Orchestra: Cheap Thrills: The Music Of Rick Margitza

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In 2019, the acclaimed Michigan-bred, Paris-based tenor saxophonist Rick Margitza thought he was being asked to contribute a couple of charts to the University of South Florida Jazz Orchestra's fifth recording in its fifteen-year history as a working ensemble. But when SFJO founder and leader Chuck Bergeron looked at the charts he had an even better idea, and asked Margitza to write and / or arrange everything on the album, which thus became Cheap Thrills: The Music of Rick Margitza. ...

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South Florida Jazz Orchestra: Cheap Thrills: The Music Of Rick Margitza

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The concept of a large, tightly-knit big band in a recording studio, on a concert or jazz club stage may just be a plug-in memory in today's environment. Fortunately there is the fifteenth anniversary recording of The South Florida Jazz Orchestra directed by bassist/bandleader Chuck Bergeron, entitled Cheap Thrills: The Music Of Rick Margitza, to remind us what a disciplined inventive big band sounds like. With the exception of George and Ira Gershwin's “Embraceable You," all the other ...

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Roberto Magris Sextet: Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery

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Roberto Magris is an Italian pianist who has an eclectic range of interests but is heavily in thrall to the masters of American bebop. On this particular live recording he leads a sextet that gives that language a pronounced Latin twist leading to a set of fiery performances. Magris uses two horn players, trumpeter Brian Lynch and tenor saxophonist Jonathan Gomez, who are explosive throughout, especially on the tunes that have an underlying Latin flavor such as “African ...

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Roberto Magris Sextet: Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery

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Since recording his first album as a leader in 1982, Italian-born pianist Roberto Magris has added thirty more to his impressive resume, the most recent of which is this high-powered sextet date, Live in Miami @ the WDNA Jazz Gallery. The session is somewhat of a departure in that most of Magris' earlier albums have been set down in a studio, either in the U.S. or abroad. And while he has recorded in more than forty countries, this was Magris' ...

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Roberto Magris: Roberto Magris Sextet Live In Miami @ The WDNA Jazz Gallery

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Italian pianist and composer Roberto Magris is restless in his stylistic approach. With more than two-dozen recordings as a leader/co-leader he has covered numerous sub-genres in a variety of group formats. Magris' career is steeped in bebop but with Enigmatix (JMood Records, 2015), with his American trio, he takes a modern European jazz approach with an underlying global flavor. As co-leader of the MUH Trio on Prague After Dark (JMood, 2017), Magris and his Czech Republic partners opted for a ...

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Primary Instrument

Drums

Location

Fort Lauderdale

Willing to teach

Intermediate to advanced

Credentials/Background

I've been teaching at The Frost School of Music - University of Miami for 20 years in the Studio Music & Jazz Department, and privately for 10 years. I have played/toured and or recorded with Curtis Fuller, Ira Sullivan, Kevin Mahogany, Rick Margitza (South Florida Jazz Orchestra) Mitch Woods, and many other artists. I teach numerous styles, in both small (combo) and large group (big band) settings. I also specialize in college audition preparation for drummers who are majoring in music. Lessons: 1 hour / $80 - I offer Zoom/remote lessons as well as in person lessons, if the student is in the South Florida Area. Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday between 12:30 pm and 6:00 pm.

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