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SCCD 31419 When Children Smile / Steve LaSpina Bassist/composer Steve LaSpina returned to studio with his regular group plus a new trumpet talent Dave Ballou to create a captivating programme of original performance on his fifth CD for SteepleChase. 1. When children smile (Steve LaSpina)2. Solar (Miles Davis)3. There Is No Moon At All (Steve …
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SCCD 31396 Story Time / Steve LaSpina Quartet Here’s another captivating CD by Steve LaSpina, a highly talented and imaginative composer and resourceful leader as well as the outstanding bass instrumentalist. On his composition, Mark Gardner writes, “ His writing is neither fussy nor over-emphatic. It allows everyone to ‘breathe’ while enhancing the listener’s enjoyment… …
SCCD 31376 When I'm Alone / Steve LaSpina Quintet Steve LaSpina is, besides being a dextrous and soulful bassist, an intensely personal and inventive composer. His exceptional talent as a writer is evident again here on this his third leader album (earlier releases: New Horizon SCCD 31313 and Eclipse SCCD 31343). The band here is …
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SCCD 31343 Eclipse / Steve LaSpina Quartet Bassist Steve LaSpina (b. March 24, 1954 in Texas) is one of the leading figures of New York’s jazz scene today. Following his first leader album on SteepleChase (SCCD 31313 New Horizon), LaSpina surrounds himself with the same empathic sidemen as the previous album and continues to concentrate …
SCCD 31313 New Horizon / Steve LaSpina Quartet “ Bassist Steve LaSpina is a marvellously gifted player, a superb accompanist and a lyrically inventive soloist. ….As demonstrated here, LaSpina’s also a composer and leader willing to focus on nuance and subtlety – dare one say, musicality! – rather than displays of in-your-face technical bravado …” …