Press Review

Review of the Cartoon Jazz Orchestra: Voice of America - October 6, 2008

Orchestra Specializes in Cartoon Jazz
-by Adam Phillips

From the 1930's through the 1950s, Big Band jazz was an immensely popular form of American music. Swinging ensembles of horns, drums, strings and keyboards played music that was not only great to dance to. It also worked as the musical accompaniment for most of the animated shorts of the era - a time often described as the Golden Age of American cartoons. But those merry melodies were more than mere kid stuff, as VOA's Adam Phillips reports.

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Review on Cartoon Jazz Project: San Francisco Chronicle - Jan04, 2004

A jazz band inspired by Looney Tunes
- by Jesse Hamlin
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"Millions of us who grew up watching the crafty wabbit,
Daffy Duck and the Roadrunner were weaned on Scott's
fun-house music -- patches of "Dinner Music for a Pack of
Hungry Cannibals," "Powerhouse," "War Dance for
Wooden Indians" -- without knowing it. "
"(...) the wild energy and shifting colors of this music,
which, like Gershwin's and Monk's, pulses with the
rushing rhythms and blaring horns of modern city life."

Review on the Martini brothers: San Francisco Chronicle - Jan23, 2005

A POTENT MUSICAL MIXTURE
- by Ben Fong-Torres

"But the Martini Brothers, he says, have a strong following. "They're nostalgia. They're not just a band. They're the whole vibe, the whole nine yards, the whole kit and caboodle."

"The Martini Brothers are Dalpe and guitarist Richard ("Mr. Rick") Fishman, who dress in matching period outfits of the '30s and '40s. They get solid backing from pianist Andy Ostwald, bassist Neil Heidler, drummer Bob Blankenship, and sax and clarinet player Jeff Sanford."

Press Releases about 2005 Goodwill Tour to Vietnam with SF Bay Jazz Big Band

	Giai Dieu Xanh Thanh Nien News.com Thanh Nien VNExpress	Lao Dong Nguoi Vien Xu Review Tien Phong

 

 

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