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15 tracks | 129 minutes
Released Oct 2006
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Live jazz improvisation featuring standards and original. Tenor sax playing at the highest level by one of Philly's all time greats.
Bio / Background
The Mike Falcone Quartet - Playing Live
Mike Falcone - Tenor and Soprano Saxophones
Ron Thomas - Keyboards & Piano
Paul Klinefelter - Acoustic Bass
Glenn Ferracone - Drums
Additional Musicians
Mike's Song - Don Glanden/Piano
Some Other Spring - Mike Falcone &
The West Chester University Jazz Band
Produced by Mike Falcone & Glenn Ferracone
Double CD
Vectordisc 101 & 102
The last recordings of the late great
saxophonist, Michael Falcone. It documents
Mike's last Quartet with Ron Thomas, Glenn
Ferracone and Paul Klinefelter. I often
worked with Mike Falcone in the 1980's in
duo, quartet and septet settings. He was
a great friend, teacher and musical leader.
His presence on the bandstand commanded
the highest respect of his fellow musicians.
His sound always seemed to bring great joy
to everyone who would listen to him.
Richard Burton
Information about Richard Burton can be
found at www.richardburtonmusic.com and
www.vectordisc.com.
↓ more ↓I first saw Mike Falcone play at the
Oyster Bar near West Chester back in 1980.
It was a steady Thursday night gig, and I
went to hear him regularly. This was the
first live jazz I'd heard, at a time when
I was just becoming seriously interested
in the music. The bar was a rebuilt barn
out in rural Chester County. The musicians
played up in a loft, with a raggady upright
piano. There was an atmosphere of relaxed
intensity. This mixture-The casual, intimate
surroundings and unpretentious, relaxed
attitude of the musicians combined with
their serious approach to the music- has
become the standard by which I judge live
music as a listener and a player.
Mike's playing has always been warm,
direct and from the heart. It is fitting
that Mike's first CD is a compilation of
his live performances, where his spontaneity
and expressiveness can be truly appreciated.
John Swana
Information about Criss Cross Jazz
recording artist John Swana can be found at www.crisscrossjazz.com and www.johnswana.com.
Falcone, who died of cancer in May 1997,
is captured live on this double CD with the
others in his longtime quartet: pianist Ron
Thomas, drummer Glenn Ferracone and bassist
Paul Klinefelter. No slick tricks here, just
cameos of a hardworking, proficient quartet
that slugged it out out night after night.
Falcone, a longtime teacher and former
sax man for the Glenn Miller Orchestra, never
lost his legato or his love of big-band swing.
Playing Live is a decent epitaph.
Karl Stark/The Philadelphia Inquirer
Other Vectordisc CDs featuring Ron Thomas
as a leader are "Scenes from a Voyage to
Arcturus", "The House of Counted Days", "17
Solo Piano Improvisations" and "Cycles". Ron
can be heard as a sideman on Richard Burton's
"Simple Major/Simple Minor" and Kristin Garson's
"Music Under the Influence".
Glenn Ferracone is featured on following
Vectordisc CDs Ron Thomas's "Scenes from a
Voyage to Arcturus", Richard Burton's "Simple
Minor/Simple Minor" and Kristin Garson's
"Music Under the Influence".
Check out Ron Thomas at www.ronthomasmusic.
com and www.vectordisc.com.
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