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Anthony Pinciotti
Anthony’s passion for music became apparent when at the age of two he began playing the drums. At the age of thirteen, he started playing professionally throughout the Midwest, working with many Motown and Midwestern jazz greats. By the age of sixteen Anthony had started working with the great multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan and soon after relocated to Miami, Florida to be his drummer. After being offered a full music scholarship, Pinciotti briefly attended the University of Miami. In 1994, Anthony moved to Chicago where he quickly became a highly sought after drummer who was consistently called on to back jazz masters touring through the area. In addition to being an in-demand sideman, he also led several successful groups containing members of the AACM and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Anthony made the move to New York in 1998 and began working and touring internationally with many of the great musicians that make up the New York jazz scene. He has played at many of the most renowned venues and festivals around the world as well as appearing on numerous recordings. Anthony is also deeply committed to teaching and mentoring. He has given clinics and master classes around the world, as well as teaching at NYU, City University of New York (CUNY) and the New School for Jazz and Contemporary music. Through his love of music, meditation and metaphysics, Anthony came to realize the healing power of music, drumming and vibration. He began doing healing drum sessions and sonic meditations with people of all ages and now has clients across the country. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
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Spike Wilner Trio: Contrafactus
by Pierre Giroux
Pianist Spike Wilner, bassist Paul Gill and drummer Anthony Pinciotti have crafted an exquisite jazz listening experience in their release Contrafactus. Recorded in a single session, with only one take at GB's Juke Joint, the spontaneity and cohesion of the trio are manifest throughout the eleven compositions which seamlessly blend Wilner's original compositions with some better-known standards. The album opens with a Wilner original, At First Blush," which is a lively and infectious swinger. Wilner dashes ...
read moreAngela Verbrugge: Somewhere
by Michael Steinman
The proper response to Beauty is an awed admiring silence. So these liner notes should be one word in a large font: LISTEN. But Angela asked me to add a few hundred keystrokes to the project, so here we are. Incidentally, I have chosen to focus on Angela in the midst of the most superb musicians and arrangements. I hope they will forgive me! Angela Verbrugge is a great subversive. Her work is so quietly insinuating that listeners ...
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With her album sales measured in millions, Stacey Kent is one of the great success stories in modern jazz. Her multi-lingual abilities allow her to record in various languages and she has appeared in over fifty countries. Her appeal is global and it is her vocal ability which has taken her to these heights. Her voice is light but commands attention with her ability to engage and communicate the narratives of love and regret, often in a simple and minimalist ...
read moreThe Spike Wilner Trio: Aliens & Wizards
by Jack Bowers
Spike Wilner, generally noted in his native jny: New York City as an excellent jazz pianist, is even more widely known as proprietor of two of the city's leading jazz clubs, Smalls and Mezzrow. Though hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, Wilner has soldiered on, presenting live music whenever possible and forming the SmallsLIVE Foundation, a non-profit arts group dedicated to creating and propagating jazz in New York through recordings, live streaming, archiving, educational initiatives and live performances. Wilner's foundation ...
read moreThe Spike Wilner Trio: Aliens & Wizards
by Pierre Giroux
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Until I Met You (Corner Pocket)
From: SomewhereBy Anthony Pinciotti
No Roots
From: Quarantine CoversBy Anthony Pinciotti
I'm Running Late
From: The Night We Couldn't Say Good...By Anthony Pinciotti