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Jon De Lucia

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Jon De Lucia is a Brooklyn based saxophonist and composer. Originally from Quincy, MA, Jon has become an integral part of the New York scene. Predominantly a student of jazz, he also has a deep interest in the folkloric music and instruments of Cuba, Japan, Ireland and Italy, having performed on a variety of ethnic flutes, drums and stringed instruments. Jon has led his groups and played as a sideman in Boston, New York and all over Japan with such musicians as Tommy Crane, David Tronzo, Bob Moses, Bob Gullotti, John Lockwood and Thomas Morgan among others. He leads the Jon De Lucia Group, and the baroque improvising Luce Trio

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The Brubeck Octet Project

Label: Museum Clausum
Released: 2024
Track listing: Curtain Music; Love Walked In; Fugue On Bop Themes; Let’s Fall In Love; IPCA; September In The Rain; I Hear A Rhapsody; The Way You Look Tonight; Prelude; What Is This Things Called Love?; Love Me Or Leave Me; Closing Theme.

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Article: Year in Review

Chris May's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024

Read "Chris May's Best Jazz Albums Of 2024" reviewed by Chris May


In case you missed the sad news, our dear friend and compatriot, Chris May, passed away in November (read our tribute). Below are the albums he considered extraordinary in 2024--a final testament to his discerning taste and love of sound. -mR Rob LuftDahab Days Edition Records

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Article: Album Review

Jon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project

Read "The Brubeck Octet Project" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Having formed his jazz octet in 2016 for a project at City College of New York, where he was then teaching, Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist Jon De Lucia had to find new music to keep it going--a search that led him to the archives at Mills College, which housed many of Dave Brubeck's original handwritten charts among ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Steve Turre, Markus Howell, Neil Adler, April Varner and more

Read "Steve Turre, Markus Howell, Neil Adler, April Varner and more" reviewed by Benjamin Boddie


Today's Music--Right Now! ... Fantastic music by Steve Turre, Markus Howell, Neil Adler, April Varner, Zaccai Curtis, Etienne Charles, Conrad Herwig, Ben Patterson, Behn Gillece, Jon Gordon, Troy Roberts, Bobby Broom, Alexander Claffy, Kerry Politzer, Clarence Penn, Eric Alexander, Charles McPherson, Bill Frisell, Isrea Butler, Dave Bass and more. Playlist Steve Turre “Mr. Kenyatta" ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Reflecting The Past, Embracing The Future

Read "Reflecting The Past, Embracing The Future" reviewed by Bob Osborne


Jazz has been around long enough to allow for a massive library of ground breaking legacy music to build up. Current musicians often look back at that legacy, sometimes they use it, sometimes they build upon it and add a current perspective. In this way jazz is allowed to grow and develop whilst remaining true to ...

News: Recording

Interview: Jon De Lucia on the Brubeck Octet

Interview: Jon De Lucia on the Brubeck Octet

With World War II over at the end of August 1945, Dave Brubeck returned home from Europe and was discharged from the Army. He returned to California and immediately began studying at Mills College with Darius Milhaud, the famed French modern-classical composer and conductor who had a great reverence for jazz. That year, Milhaud (above) asked ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Phil Woods, Pat Metheny & Benjamin Koppel

Read "Phil Woods, Pat Metheny & Benjamin Koppel" reviewed by Joe Dimino


From a celebrated veteran musician and author from Denmark, we begin the 861st Episode of Neon Jazz with Benjamin Koppel and music from his 2023 album White Busses. From here, we get into a legend Benjamin spent quality time with in Phil Woods. As the hour ensues, we hear great new music from Ray Brown, Jo ...

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Article: Album Review

Jon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project

Read "The Brubeck Octet Project" reviewed by Chris May


Synchronicity is a wondrous thing. Item: At around the same time that Albert Ayler was developing his sound in the U.S.A., the Ethiopian tenor saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya was forging a strikingly similar one in Addis Ababa. Neither player had heard the other, and Mekurya had never heard any jazz at all. Feel the Force?

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News: Recording

Alto Saxophonist Jon De Lucia Revitalizes An Overlooked Chapter In Jazz History On 'The Brubeck Octet Project,' Set For July 12 Release By Musaeum Clausum Recordings

Alto Saxophonist Jon De Lucia Revitalizes An Overlooked Chapter In Jazz History On 'The Brubeck Octet Project,' Set For July 12 Release By Musaeum Clausum Recordings

Ever curious about the underexplored corners of jazz history, alto saxophonist Jon De Lucia breathes new life into one important such chapter with The Brubeck Octet Project, dropping July 12 on his own Musæum Clausum Recordings imprint. The album documents De Lucia and his octet’s rediscovery and reconditioning of the arrangements played by the Dave Brubeck ...


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