Photograph by Richard Daniel Bergeron
More fun and expertly played music — wonderful in ensemble and solo — from the Jon De Lucia Octet, performing on May 29, 2017, at the Tea Lounge on Union Street in Brooklyn, New York. For this performance, they were Jon, alto, clarinet, flute; John Ludlow, alto; Jay Rattman, tenor, bass clarinet; Marc Schwartz, tenor, clarinet; Brad Mulholland, baritone, clarinet; Reuben Allen, keyboard; Aidan O’Donnell, string bass; Steve Little, borrowed drums. On SELDOM THE SUN, a piece by Alec Wilder for his Octet, special guest Alison Mari on oboe/English horn joined in.
Here is THE SONG IS YOU from the same performance.
And more.
PICK YOURSELF UP (always good advice):
Jon’s composition and arrangement, PRELUDE TO PART FIRST:
Jimmy Giuffre’s arrangement of the Van Heusen beauty, DARN THAT DREAM, for saxophones only:
Alec Wilder’s SELDOM THE SUN:
REVELATION (incomplete through the failure of the incautious videographer, who is contrite even now):
Jon’s thoughtful, emotionally deep, and deeply swinging music pleases me more than I can say here . . . but you know it, he knows it, and I do, too.
May your happiness increase!
More, please; I love these cats, they are remindful of Mulligan’s FIVE BROTHERS FROM 1950 featuring Al, Zoot, Getz, Brew Moore and Alan Eager, all tenors, particularly PICK YOURSELF UP and Gerry’s REVELATION. I’ll have to put Jon De Lucia and his on my hero list. Thanks, Michael.