Danny D'Imperios Big Band Bloviation

Danny D'Imperios Big Band Bloviation

ASIN: B000068II1

Track Listings

1. Three More Foxes

2. Good Bait

3. Del Sasser

4. Danny Boy

5. Four On Six

6. Adam's Apple

7. Red Cross

8. Daahoud

Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Danny D'Imperio began playing drums when he was 11. Earlier he had tried his hand at piano and then trumpet but after hearing Louis Bellson live with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra in his hometown of Cortland, N.Y. back in 1956, he made a final switch to drums. Throughout his teens, Danny gigged with local bands in the Syracuse area, laying the foundation for a professional career that would give him an impressive pedigree that includes stints with Anita O'Day, Tony Bennett, and Eddie Jefferson. A veteran big band drummer, Danny was surprised to find that some of his illustrious colleagues made their big band recording debut on this CD. His own experience with big, brassy aggregations includes time spent with The Buddy DeFranco-Glenn Miller Orchestra, Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Les and Larry Elgart, Don Sebesky, and the celebrated Village Vanguard Orchestra. It is a measure of his ability and standing in the big band world that Danny, in the early Eighties,! was called upon to replace the hospitalized leader of the Buddy Rich band and also subsequently appeared with the band after Buddy's death in 1987.

Product Description
Danny D'Imperios Big Band Bloviation is a hard hitting BeBop Big Band. It features Jazz giants Barry Harris, Eric Alexander, and Peter Bernstein. It's made of of a combination of players that have crossed legendary drummer D'Imperios path throughout his illustrious career. It also is Harris and Alexanders debut with a big band. This CD has been coined to be "Relentless" by those that have heard it prior to release. A "MUST HAVE" for any jazz enthusiast.

Danny D'Imperios Big Band Bloviation,Barry Harris, and Peter Bernstein Danny D'Imperio featuring Eric Alexander

Average customer rating:

Small big band??

Very Fine Big Band Be-Bop

Danny D'Imperios Big Band Bloviation

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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000068II1
Release Date: 2002-05-01

Tracks:

Three More Foxes
Good Bait
Del Sasser
Danny Boy
Four On Six
Adam's Apple
Red Cross
Daahoud

Album Description

Danny D'Imperios Big Band Bloviation is a hard hitting BeBop Big Band. It features Jazz giants Barry Harris, Eric Alexander, and Peter Bernstein. It's made of of a combination of players that have crossed legendary drummer D'Imperios path throughout his illustrious career. It also is Harris and Alexanders debut with a big band. This CD has been coined to be "Relentless" by those that have heard it prior to release. A "MUST HAVE" for any jazz enthusiast.

Customer Reviews:

Small big band??.......2004-06-24

It seems that the small band experience of this group often made it difficult for them to use the full power of a "big band." I often thought I was listening to a really talented quintet instead of a big band. In some pieces, of course, the full power of the "big band" came through such as in Danny Boy. It's a great group but I wish that their arrangements were more oriented to using the full power of the band on all the cuts.

Very Fine Big Band Be-Bop.......2003-04-14

Danny D'Imperio is a jazz drummer of great experience who favors the small group bop and hard bop styles. He also has considerable big band experience with bands such as Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman and the Buddy Rich ghost band (a great honor, one would imagine!) He has put it all together in this fine CD by assembling a cracking big band of NYC area heavyweights to blow some hot be-bop charts.

Many big bands are built on the talents of a gifted composer/arranger, but this band is somewhat different. There are certainly some decent charts here, but they are not the focus. Rather, the spotlight here is on the band's exceptional soloists and the charts are opened up considerably to allow them plenty of room to blow. The two soloists who stand out for me are baritonist Gary Smulyan and pianist Barry Harris who guests on 3 charts. But their superb performances do not detract from the other fine soloists who include altoist Gary Pribeck, tenorist Eric Alexander, guitarist Peter Bernstein, trombonist John Mosca, as well as trumpeters Dave Stahl, Chris Persad, Joe Magnarelli and Greg Gisbert. All make their mark. D'Imperio takes no solos but is content to sit back and drive the band through these hard-swinging charts.

The CD begins with the biting trumpet feature "Three More Foxes" by Willie Maiden and continues for the most part with strong bop and blues based originals which come from the centre of the jazz tradition. The eight charts are by eight different arrangers and two of my favorites are Ray Brown's arrangement of Sam Jones' "Del Sasser" and Alan Broadbent's original blues (from the Herman book) "Adam's Apple." Trumpeter Dave Stahl blows beautifully in all registers on Don Sebesky's lovely arrangement of "Danny Boy" (the CD's only ballad).

The recording quality is bright and clear with lots of "up front" presence. The rhythm section is very well recorded. Strangely, Dave Stahl's lead trumpet seems off-mike on some of the shout choruses, so that they never quite reach their full impact. The dynamic level of the band vaires little from chart to chart.

This enjoyable CD is recommended to big band fans who have an ear for be-bop and hot jazz soloists.

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