2016

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Way Back Home - Review in Downbeat

If you were to place every album drummer Steve Gadd appeared on end-to-end you would traverse at least one football field before you got...

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Steve Gadd Band Way Back Home Review - Rochester City Newspaper

Near the end of the title track of the new album by the Steve Gadd Band, Gadd takes a knock-your-socks-off drum solo that brings the...

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Sully, The Sting Variations, and More: A Conversation With Tierney Sutton - The Huffington Post

A Conversation with Tierney Sutton Mike Ragogna: Tierney, let’s start with a little bit of your history. You collaborated with Clint...

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John Daversa: Kaleidoscope Eyes-Music of The Beatles - Jazz Weekly

There have been a lot of tributes to the Fab Four in jazz circles lately, but I don’t think any have swung harder than this one by John...

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John Daversa overlays crazy big band jazz onto Beatles classics - AXS

Believe it or not, there are many people who don’t get the Beatles — at all. Musicians are another matter; almost every one cites the Fab...

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John Daversa: Kaleidoscope Eyes: Music Of The Beatles - All About Jazz

Does the world need another collection of Beatles covers? The same argument could be had about any of the dozens of standards that...

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John Daversa Big Band at the Baked Potato - All About Jazz

It's a rarity to find a modern big band dedicated to playing original music in Los Angeles; home to some of the world's most talented...

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Music Review: John Daversa ‘Kaleidoscope Eyes: Music of the Beatles’ - Blog Critics

Since it often seems that musicians by the boatload are busily covering the Beatles Songbook—just Google jazz covers of the Beatles—it...

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John Daversa 'Kaleidoscope Eyes: Music of the Beatles' - Review from Midwest Records

JOHN DAVERSA/Kaleidoscope Eyes-Music of the Beatles: An educator that uses the freedom the security of his day job gives to give back to...