The Rocco John Group

The Rocco John Group began being a trio in 1997. Originally known as the Rocco John Trio, the group asked trumpeter Michael Irwin to become listed on in 2006. They are recognized for playing freewheeling criteria and first compositions with the band’s head, Rocco John Iacovone. The Rocco John Group are also the position musical ensemble for the Coalition of Innovative Performers, a N.Con.C.-structured interdisciplinary improvisational arts group. Mls to look, an avant-garde assortment of first and standard music, was the initial recording with the Rocco John Trio. The brand new quartet released Don’t Wait around TOO MUCH TIME in 2007. Bandleader Iacovone composes for the group and has piano and alto/soprano saxophones. He cut his jazz tooth playing alto saxophone in Sam Streams’ “Orchestral Explorations” on the Studio room Rivbea through the ’70s “loft” years. He provides performed with Karl Berger, Barry Altschul, the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra, Larry Grenadier, and Phil Grenadier, amongst others. His many years of personal research with Lee Konitz and schooling under Streams helped Iacovone to make a compositional and playing design that often shows Konitz’s focus on tasteful restraint and melodic content material and Streams’ feeling of exciting abstraction. Provided his musical affects, which likewise incorporate such luminaries as Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, and Eric Dolphy, it really is no real surprise that Iacovone’s music blurs the lines between “in” and “out” playing. As the creator and artistic movie director from the Coalition of Innovative Artists, Iacovone frequently performs along with his quartet and conducts educational treatment centers for aspiring music artists. Trumpeter Michael Irwin keeps a Bachelor of Good Arts in Music from Buy University, where his educators included Jon Faddis and Wynton Marsalis. He’s been subjected to music all his existence through his dad, bass participant Dennis Irwin. Irwin takes on with many performers in N.Con.C., including drummer Kenny Wollesen and his personal Mike Irwin Quintet. Bassist Aaron Keane continues to be playing music from an extremely early age. He analyzed the Suzuki technique as a kid, played the dual bass inside a jazz music group in his teenager years, and later on spent 2 yrs in the Manhattan College of Music learning with Homer Mensch. Dalius Naujokaitis (aka Dalius Nojo), the group’s drummer and percussionist, comes from Lithuania, where he examined music on the Conservatory of Vilnius. He spent some time working extensively in European countries and played in various jazz festivals across the world, and like Irwin in addition has performed with Kenny Wollesen.