Rudy Royster

Having already racked up a list of impressive credits as a member of Bill Frisells Big Sur Quintet and Dave Douglas Quintet, critically-acclaimed drummer Rudy Royston steps out as a leader with a stellar crew of some of the brightest young lights on the New York scene guitarist Nir Felder, pianist Sam Harris, saxophonist Jon Irabagon, trumpeter Nadja Noordhuis and tandem bass of Mimi Jones & Yasushi Nakamura. The music on 303 has complete vision, says Dave Douglas. It s really Rudy from the first note to the last. Profound grooves, soulful melodies and soloing come directly out of Rudys compositions into the band. It is a true pleasure to hear the inner musical thoughts of this great drummer.

Per decenni il suo nome fa il giro del mondo come una leggenda: Jungle Rudy, il pioniere che vive tra gli indios del Venezuela ascoltando Mozart e ospitando Werner Herzog, il primo ad aver esplorato quel «mondo perduto» a sud dell'Orinoco che ispirò la fantasia di Conan Doyle. Affascinato dal personaggio e dalla sua aura di mistero, Jan Brokken si mette in viaggio per ricostruire la vera storia di Rudolf Truffino, avventuriero olandese di origini italiane. Approdato nella Caracas ricca di petroldollari degli anni Cinquanta, Rudy trova il suo eden nella Gran Sabana, lo sconfinato altopiano nel sudest del paese dove torreggiano i tepui, solitarie montagne a cima piatta con cascate e canyon mozzafiato e specie endemiche uniche al mondo..

In-demand drummer Rudy Royston (Bill Frisell, Dave Douglas, Ravi Coltrane, Branford Marsalis) debuts his new trio on Rise of Orion. Rudy Royston’s sophomore Greenleaf Music album Rise of Orion features a chordless trio with saxophone standout and Thelonious Monk Competition Winner Jon Irabagon, and bass virtuoso Yasushi Nakamura. This 13 track record is Royston’s offering of “hope and love” with 11 originals and interpretations of Bill Withers’ Make a Smile For Me and Henry Purcell’s Dido’s Lament.

Tenor saxophonist Houston Person's playing has a lot in common with a perfectly brewed cup of coffee: both are bold, satisfying, smooth, eye-opening and addictive once experienced.
Whether it be during smouldering blues-tinged numbers ("Please Send Me Someone to Love"), up-tempo takes on old favorites ("At Long Last Love," "Moon River"), or steamy, sultry, late-night ballads ("Put Your Head on My Shoulder"), Person never fails to deliver a performance where expressivity is the order of the day. The band is made up of a hand-picked group from Person's cadre of regular colleagues with guitar great Russell Malone adding his imaginative voicings and swinging rhythms to the mix.

Tenor saxophonist Houston Person's playing has a lot in common with a perfectly brewed cup of coffee: both are bold, satisfying, smooth, eye-opening and addictive once experienced.

On A Walk in the Shadow Garden, as on previous albums throughout his career, Spotted Peccary Music artist Rudy Adrian paints sylvan scenes with sound. A percussive trilling on “Dawn Redwood” could be the hammering of a woodpecker’s beak. Glittering chimes evoke light through tangled branches on the track “Hemlock Grove.” Such is the music of nature to Adrian, where these twin passions of a life upon the Earth have been forever forged.