Rich Corpolongo Discography of CDs

Rich Corpolongo music CDs This 1998 release is a satisfying session of freebop, post-bop, and avant-garde sounds from Chicago-based Rich Corpolongo, educator, author, arranger, composer, and master reed player. Corpolongo, who has worked with Eddie Harris, Herbie Hancock, Gary Burton, and Oliver Nelson, is an incisive, precise, and articulate player, with a cohesive and imaginative flow to ...

Rich Corpolongo music CDs Delmark has been great about documenting Chicago-based musicians who are respected locally, but little known outside of the Windy City. A good example is Rich Corpolongo, who had been playing post-bop and avant-garde jazz around Chicago for decades when, in 1995, Delmark finally gave him a chance to record as an leader. The ...

Rich Corpolongo CD discography This 1998 release is a satisfying session of freebop, post-bop, and avant-garde sounds from Chicago-based Rich Corpolongo, educator, author, arranger, composer, and master reed player. Corpolongo, who has worked with Eddie Harris, Herbie Hancock, Gary Burton, and Oliver Nelson, is an incisive, precise, and articulate player, with a cohesive and imaginative flow to ...

Rich Corpolongo discography In the unmistakable tenor sax-bass-drums format, Chicago's Rich Corpolongo presents his third album, which clearly displays the sound and stance of his idol, Sonny Rollins. A set of loping, swinging, mainstream, bop-based jazz, Corpolongo takes his time massaging and unfolding these classic melodies with the patience of a saint. It's a lovable set ...

Rich Corpolongo albums "Concertino" introduces three works from Chicago composer Doug Lofstrom. His virtuosic Concertinos for oboe (2006), and for harp (2009), were part of a commission initiated by conductor Kirk Muspratt and the New Philharmonic Orchestra, and premiered at D

Rich Corpolongo discography Barrett Deems, 81 at the time of this recording, will always be best known for his stint with the Louis Armstrong All-Stars in the 1950s. After settling in Chicago, the drummer became the leader of a top-notch jazz orchestra which made its recording debut on this Delmark release. Deems, whose musical role model ...

Rich Corpolongo songs In some ways in a similar vein as Duke Ellington's Sacred Music, John Moulder here creates a set of his own inspirational jazz. The performances are exquisite, with sensitive performances on all instruments. The mood is contemplative, meditative, as one would probably expect. Moulder's guitar strums out only what it needs to, with ...

Rich Corpolongo CD discography Who says variety shows are dead? Every time veteran Chicago jazz artists Eldee Young and Marshall Vente get together -- and they have been doing so for more than 15 years -- the result is a happy conglomeration of styles and performances. On this their third release, they present a regular smorgasbord of ...

Rich Corpolongo albums John Burnett has a day job as a jazz broadcaster for FM station WDCB in Chicago. In 1999 he formed this orchestra comprised of top-notch Chicago musicians. Many of them have had considerable big band experience with outfits led by the likes of Glenn Miller and Barrett Deems. Several also play in another Windy City-based aggregation, Lenny King's Chicago Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra. For his maiden album, ...