Dave Stryker - Nomad

Styles: Guitar Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1995
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 60:52
Size: 141,1 MB
Art: Front

( 7:12)  1. Blues for brother Jack
(10:03)  2. Nomad
( 7:27)  3. Matthew's waltz
( 7:22)  4. Victor strikes
( 7:02)  5. Listen to your heart
( 9:53)  6. 24 for Elvin
( 5:32)  7. Dangerous
( 6:17)  8. First strike

Whether you’ve heard guitarist Dave Stryker leading his own group (with 30 CD’s as a leader to date),  or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and many others, you know why the Village Voice calls him “one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years.” Hot House magazine awarded him Best Guitarist Fans Decision for 2017.  He was recently voted once again as one of the top Jazz Guitarists in the 2019 Downbeat Critics and Readers Polls for the 10th time. Dave’s CD “Eight Track III” stayed at #1 on JazzWeek Radio chart for 6 straight weeks. “Strykin’ Ahead” featured the same lineup as “Eight Track II”- Steve Nelson, Jared Gold and McClenty Hunter, and received great reviews. “Messin’ with Mister T”, is a celebration of the man he worked with for over a decade  Stanley Turrentine, “Mister T” with ten of the greatest tenor sax players on the scene today. It went to #1 on JazzWeek Radio and stayed in the Top 50 for 20 weeks and has received great reviews including 4 1/2 stars in Downbeat magazine. Dave’s last CD “Eight Track” was #9 for 2014 on the Jazz Week Radio Charts where it stayed for 20 weeks topping off at #3 for 3 weeks. Downbeat magazine picked it as one of the Top CD’s of 2014, and ran a feature article in the June 2014 issue on Dave.

Whether you’ve heard guitarist Dave Stryker leading his own group (with 30 CD’s as a leader to date),  or as a featured sideman with Stanley Turrentine, Jack McDuff, and many others, you know why the Village Voice calls him “one of the most distinctive guitarists to come along in recent years.” Hot House magazine awarded him Best Guitarist Fans Decision for 2017.  He was recently voted once again as one of the top Jazz Guitarists in the 2019 Downbeat Critics and Readers Polls for the 10th time. Dave’s CD “Eight Track III” stayed at #1 on JazzWeek Radio chart for 6 straight weeks. “Strykin’ Ahead” featured the same lineup as “Eight Track II”- Steve Nelson, Jared Gold and McClenty Hunter, and received great reviews. “Messin’ with Mister T”, is a celebration of the man he worked with for over a decade Stanley Turrentine, “Mister T”with ten of the greatest tenor sax players on the scene today. It went to #1 on JazzWeek Radio and stayed in the Top 50 for 20 weeks and has received great reviews including 4 1/2 stars in Downbeat magazine. Dave’s last CD “Eight Track” was #9 for 2014 on the Jazz Week Radio Charts where it stayed for 20 weeks topping off at #3 for 3 weeks. Downbeat magazine picked it as one of the Top CD’s of 2014, and ran a feature article in the June 2014 issue on Dave. https://www.davestryker.com/wp/biography/

Personnel: Dave Stryker withThe Bill Warfield Big Band featuring Randy Brecker – trumpet

Nomad

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The Bill Warfield Big Band - The City Never Sleeps

Styles: Trumpet Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1993
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:53
Size: 114,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:29)  1. Sonnyside of the Street
(4:53)  2. Samba de Loves Me
(6:19)  3. City Prelude
(8:45)  4. The City Never Sleeps
(6:14)  5. A Little Circus Music
(5:45)  6. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
(4:37)  7. Salsa en Mi Alma
(3:46)  8. Tentigo
(5:00)  9. Daahoud

Warfield, Bill [William Leonard Warfield Jr.], trumpet, composer, arranger, educator; b. Baltimore, MD, 2 March 1952. His mother is Margaret Annabelle Baublitz Warfield (birthdate: 1/30/1921, place of birth: Owings Mills, Maryland). His father is William Leonard Warfield (birthdate 5/3/1919, place of birth, Hudson, Maryland).

His brother is John Cleveland Warfield (born 7/7/1959,Baltimore,Maryland). Bill studied trumpet with the following:  Lee Cutair 1961-64, Fred Frey 1962-63, Richard Mooreland 1964, Richard Daniel 1965-70, Allen Chambers 1965-67, Raymond Moore 1966-74, Rob Roy McGregor 1974-75, Jimmy Maxwell 1982-83, Lew Soloff 1990-94, Vince Penzarella 2000-2001.  He studied composition with Hank Levy 1970-74, Ray Wright 1986, Bob Brookmeyer 1989, and ear training with Caris Liebman, 2001-present. He's attended  Owings Mills Elementary School, Franklin Jr. High School, Franklin High School, Peabody Conservatory, Towson State University, University of Maryland Baltimore, Manhattan School of Music, and the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop. At the Manhattan School of Music, he got his M.M., Jazz Commercial performance, Trumpet, and his Jazz Commercial performance, Trumpet. He has taught from 1996-present at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, as an Assistant Professor, Music and at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL as an Assistant Professor, Jazz Trumpet. From 1992-1999, he taught at Towson University, Towson, MD, as an Adjunct Professor, Graduate and Undergraduate Divisions, Jazz Trumpet. He also taught at Brooklyn College, The City University of New York asDirector, Jazz Ensemble and The Dalton School, New York, NY, at Jazz Studies Director. In the fall of 2000,  Bill Warfield composed and conducted a concert with the The Yellow Jackets entitled "Beneath the Stacks, Second Line of the Industrial Revolution," which was performed at Lehigh University and featured the Lehigh Valley Jazz Repertory Orchestra.

Among his other accomplishments is a commission by the government of Spain to arrange and produce Hollywood Jazz, a musical review for the 1992 Olympic year, and a commission by the Berlin Radio Orchestra to write two works for big band.  He has been commissioned by the US Air Force Airmen of Note, and has appeared with the United States Navy Commodores as a clinician.  Warfield has performed with many well known jazz and commercial artists including Ornette Coleman, The American Jazz Orchestra directed by John Lewis, Mel Lewis, Paul Anka, Mel Torme, Randy Brecker, David Sanborn, Sonny Stitt, Sheila Jordan and Lester Bowie, among others.  He was an NBC staff musician for the 1995 VIDA awards and has been an orchestrator for Eddie Palmieri and Lester Bowie.  Early in his career, Warfield was a performer and contributing writer for the Bill Kirchner Nonet on Seabreeze Records.  

Presently, he is on the advisory board of the Baltimore Jazz Orchestra, where he plays lead trumpet.  In 1996 and 1997, The Bill Warfield Big Band was featured at Birdland in New York City as part of the Apple Band Cavalcade.  The Bill Warfield Big Band was featured at the International Association of Jazz Educators conference in 1994 and 1998, and at the New York City Brass Conference 1991, 95, 97, 98, and 99.In addition to his professional career as an international performer, recording artist, bandleader and producer, Bill Warfield is currently Assistant Professor in the Lehigh University music department.  In 1997 he founded The Lehigh Valley Jazz Repertory Orchestra, a non-profit organization dedicated to the recreation of classic jazz performances as well as the creation of new works for jazz orchestra.His spouse is Carol Heft, born in Philladelphia PA 3/11/1954, an artist. ~ Bio  http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/warfield-bill-william-leonard-warfield-jr

Personnel: Bill Warfield (trumpet, leader), Andy Fusco, Walt Weiskopf, Bob Hanlon, Tom Olin, Rich Perry, Chris Potter, Alex Stewart (saxophones), David Diggs (oboe, clarinet, piccolo, tenor saxophone), Bob Millikan, Lew Soloff, John Eckert, Jeff Parke, Tony Kadieck (trumpets), Herb Besson, Conrad Herwig, Larry Farrell, Matt Finders, George Flynn (trombones), Greg Cogan (piano), Chris Rosenberg, Dave Stryker (guitars), Mike Richmond, Jeff Fuller (acoustic bass), Tim Horner, Alan Bates (drums), Emedin Rivera (percussion).

The City Never Sleeps

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Gene Ludwig Trio With Bill Warfield Big Band - Duffs Blues: Live From The Zoellner Arts Center

Styles: Soul Jazz, Big Band
Year: 2008
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 71:38
Size: 165,3 MB
Art: Front

( 9:00)  1. Duff's Blues (Live)
( 7:46)  2. Totem Pole  (Live)
( 6:26)  3. The Organ Grinder  (Live)
( 7:22)  4. The Circuit  (Live)
( 9:40)  5. Naked City  (Live)
( 8:31)  6. Dance Of The Coal Cars  (Live)
(11:35)  7. Dolphin Dance  (Live)
(11:14)  8. Breakin' The Ice  (Live)

It’s too bad the Hammond B3 organ isn’t showcased more often with a big band. It’s a terrific combine producing a big, deep, meaty sound. Case in point: this CD, putting together veteran B3 organist Gene Ludwig, who got his start four decades ago in Pittsburgh, and Big Apple trumpeter Bill Warfield’s Big Band. Ludwig’s trio provides guitarist Bob DeVos and drummer Rudy Petschauer, while Warfield provides arrangements and fields the brass, reeds and bassist Bob Bowen. This isn’t one of those either/or situations where big band or organ trio play; there’s a lot of interaction between the two, with Warfield providing ensemble riffs, shout choruses, solos and composed interludes to keep the big-band feel alive even during long solos and tracks. 

Ludwig’s “Duff’s Blues” kicks things off with a dollop of soul jazz: a B3 lead segues into churning big band and organ, Joe Wilder blows a zesty trumpet solo, Tim Sessions offers brash trombone, and the band fades to choruses of B3 licks traded with guitar (catch the “Killer Joe” allusions) before a drum-break finale. The amazing Wilder (an octogenarian since 2002) brings his burnished tone and articulate ideas to a long solo on Lee Morgan’s Latin-with-4/4 bridge “Totem Pole,” while Warfield takes the trumpet solo on Woody Shaw’s “The Organ Grinder.” Ludwig, who favors the resonant middle register of the B3 and avoids the repetitive clichés of soul organ, is a robust presence throughout the CD as both soloist and ensemble fattener. Warfield’s arrangements swing and/or groove with exhilarating authority, from a classic take on “Dolphin Dance” to the funky percolation of his own “Dance of the Coal Cars.” The tenor saxophones of Dave Riekenberg and Glenn Cashman, who also arranged his own rippling, jumpy “The Circuit,” fit right in the brawny B3 combo tradition, and it’s good to hear such yeomen in the New York big-band trenches as baritone saxophonist Ed Xiques and bass trombonist Sam Burtis stretch out on solos. ~ George Kanzler  http://jazztimes.com/articles/20824-duff-s-blues-live-from-the-zoellner-arts-center-gene-ludwig-trio-with-the-bill-warfield-big-band

Personnel: Gene Ludwig (organ, Hammond b-3 organ); Bob DeVos (guitar); Ben Ken (alto saxophone); Jon Owens, Bill Warfield, Danny Cahn (trumpet); Tim Sessions (trombone); Randy Petshauer (drums); Glenn Cashman (tenor saxophone); Ed Xiques (baritone saxophone); Dave Spier, Joe Wilder (trumpet); Sam Burtis (trombone).

Duffs Blues:Live From The Zoellner Arts Center

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