• About the Urban Flux
  • African American Art
    • Art Collecting etc.
  • Etymology of Jazz
  • Jazz Nouveau
  • Music Reviews

Daily Archives: September 7, 2012

BFM Jazz Presents John Daversa’s “Artful Joy”

07 Friday Sep 2012

Posted by Rob Young in Improvised Music, Jazz, Modern Jazz, Music, New Music, What's New?

≈ Comments Off on BFM Jazz Presents John Daversa’s “Artful Joy”

Tags

Bob Mintzer, Brandon Coleman, Gene Coye, Gretchen Parlato, Jerry Watts, John Daversa, Robby Marshall, Tommy King, Zane Carney

Trumpeter John Daversa Returns with Crackling Small Group Outing
“Artful Joy“(BFM Jazz) a Potent Follow up to
Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album
With special guests Bob Mintzer and Gretchen Parlato

John Daversa, ARTFUL JOY

On the heels of 2011’s high-energy, take-no-prisoners, boundary-stretching Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album, acclaimed L.A.-based trumpeter-composer-arranger John Daversa scales things back for his upbeat follow up, Artful Joy. “It was difficult trying to find the right album name for this one,” says Daversa, who has been leading a big band and small group concurrently for the past six years. “I didn’t realize how much in the spirit of deep happiness and joy that it was until it was done. It’s been a very fertile, wonderful year and I think this album is a reflection of that.” Continue reading →

Share this:

  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)

Like this:

Like Loading...

Menu

Main | Home

About

New Jazz Releases

Uncommon Faith

Calendar

September 2012
M T W T F S S
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
« Aug   Oct »

Archives

Categories

Subscribe to Flux Posts

RSS Feed

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 1,188 other subscribers

Blog at WordPress.com.

  • Follow Following
    • theurbanflux.wordpress.com
    • Join 89 other followers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • theurbanflux.wordpress.com
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d bloggers like this: