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Releases
Jim Rotondi - "Four of a Kind"
- “Clearly, [Rotondi] emerges as one of the best of the post-Hubbard generation” – Chris Hovan, allaboutjazz.com
“[His] solos are a near-perfect amalgam of power, finesse and logic” – David A. Orthmann, allaboutjazz.com
“One of the unsung heroes of the trumpet.” – Bret Primack, gmn.com
“Rotondi has the passion and focus to find a place for the music in the new millennium.” – The New Yorker
“There isn’t a better trumpet player in New York City than Jim Rotondi, for whom the word versatile is inadequate.” – Bob Belden
Jim currently lives and works in the New York City area, where he maintains a vigorous performing, recording, composing and teaching schedule. He has recently given clinics at Emory University in Atlanta ,the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Camp and served on the faculty of the Stanford Jazz Workshop in Palo Alto, California, as well as being an affiliate faculty member at the State University of New York in Purchase.
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Spike Wilner - "Three to Go"
- Michael “Spike” Wilner was born in New York City and started playing piano at an early age. He was inspired by a television program about the life of Scott Joplin to learn to play Ragtime Music. He perused this art form throughout high school and performed Joplin’s “Maple Leaf Rag” at the St. Louis Ragtime Festival. Although it was an informal appearance it, nonetheless, profoundly affected him and drove him to persue a career in music.
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Sean Nowell - "Firewerks" - now available for digital download
- Sean Nowell is a tenor saxophonist and composer from Birmingham, Alabama steeped in the southern traditions of blues, gospel, jazz, and funk fused with the complex harmonic and world rhythmic concepts that permeate the music of New York City.
His new CD, “FIREWERKS”, has garnered critical acclaim for the band’s highly interactive, rhythmically adventuresome approach and Posi-Tone is proud to have him aboard. Sean has been performing in New York City and touring regionally for the past 5 years and had a Posi-tone label release on Halloween of 2007 at Smalls jazz club.
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Ehud Asherie - "Lockout"
- Ehud Asherie was born in Israel in 1979. He lived in Italy for six years before moving with his family to New York at the age of nine. As a child, he took piano lessons, but his real interest in playing began when, at fourteen, he discovered Smalls jazz club in Greenwich Village. On weekends, he would stay at the club from ten at night to six in the morning, listening to the headliners and playing in the late-night jam sessions.
"Lockout" is Ehud Asherie's first recording as a leader, and features four of his original compositions along with five standards. Supporting Ehud on this session are all of his compatriots from the hard working group that plays every Tuesday night at Smalls. Eminent tenorman Grant Stewart adds his soulful tone to the mix and trumpet phenomenon Ryan Kisor soars while the solid rhythm section of bassist Joel Forbes and drummer Phil Stewart help to keep everybody’s playing honest and swinging straight-ahead.
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