DIAL AND DeROSA

Garry Dial and Rich DeRosa:
Keep Swingin’ - The Music of Charlie Banacos

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Keep Swingin’ is a collaborative new project spearheaded by renowned pianist Garry Dial and stalwart arranger-drummer Rich DeRosa. Keep Swingin’ is a tribute to the great jazz educator Charlie Banacos, whose pedagogy has influenced legions of jazz musicians over the past 50 years.

Keep Swingin’ is a 10-track collection of Banacos’ music, reimagined and re-arranged by Dial and DeRosa. It is performed by some of Banacos most accomplished devotees, and friends including Mike Stern, Jeff Berlin, Jerry Bergonzi, Wayne Krantz, and many more. Complimenting the album is a stunning 100-page book of Charlie’s students’ personal anecdotes, photographs, artistic renderings, and more. The book features corresponding QR codes per tune, per chapter.

It’s no understatement to call Charlie Banacos a Jedi Master of jazz. He was a pianist, composer, author, and educator – but he was far more than the sum of those parts.

The visionary Banacos minted more than 100 courses of study for improvisation and composition, ranging from “Intervallics” to “Tetratonics” to “Superimpositions” to “Bitonal Pendulums” – all which became cornerstones of the jazz education lexicon. Over the years, his students and musical associates included leading lights from violinist Regina Carter to pianist Marilyn Crispell to guitarist Mike Stern.

Banacos’ counsel has been included in innumerable books, videos, clinics, lectures, and courses – at institutions ranging from Boston’s Berklee College of Music and New England Conservatory of Music to New York’s New School and Manhattan School of Music.

His students have gone on to record with Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Joe Henderson, Dizzy Gillespie-and many more. And among those under his tutelage and simply in the know, Banacos is a legendary figure – a practitioner and educator of utmost prudence, assiduity and insight.

“Dedicated teachers who interact with talented and diligent students ultimately cultivate the next generation of creators and teachers,” composer and arranger Rich DeRosa declares in Keep Swingin’ – a self-described “album of songs that’s also a book,” in tribute to Banacos and his legacy.

Charlie Banacos
Charlie Banacos

All compositions in their original form are by Charlie Banacos

The Keep Swingin’ horn section (on all tracks):

Nick Marchione – trumpet/flugelhorn
Andrew Gould – alto sax, flute
Chris Oatts – tenor sax, flute
Ryan Keberle – trombone
Gary Smulyan – baritone sax

Guest ensemble member: Anne Drummond – Flute

Horn section arranged and conducted by: Rich DeRosa

1. KEEP SWINGIN*

Arranged by Rich DeRosa

Featured Soloists:
Garry Dial – piano
Dick Oatts – alto sax
Terell Stafford – trumpet

Guest band members:
Jay Anderson – bass
Rich DeRosa – drums

2. GREAT AWAKENING

Reimagined by Joe Hubbard

Featured Soloists:
Joe Hubbard – electric bass
Wayne Krantz – electric guitar

Guest band members:
David Witham – synthesizers /electric keyboards
Tom Brechtlein – drums

Joe Hubbard plays /QS Bass Strings

3. BAT CAVE

Reimagined by Garry Dial

Featured Soloists:
Gerard D’Angelo – piano
Garry Dial – piano
Gary Smulyan – baritone sax
John Riley – drums

Guest band member:
Jay Anderson – bass

4. PINE NEEDLES

Reimagined by Garry Dial

Featured Soloists:
Mike Stern – electric guitar
Garry Dial – piano

Guest band members:
Anne Drummond – alto flute
Jay Anderson – bass
Rich DeRosa – drums

5. MUMMY’S CURSE

Reimagined by Garry Dial

Featuring the Jerry Bergonzi quintet:
Jerry Bergonzi – tenor sax
Phil Grenadier – trumpet
Plamen Karadonev – piano
Matt Stavrakis – bass
Luther Gray – drums

6. BERNIE BURNOLA

Reimagined by Garry Dial

Featured Soloists:
Helio Alves – piano
Anne Drummond – flute
Paulo Levi – soprano sax
Mauricio Zottarelli – drums

Guest band members:
Paul Meyers – acoustic guitar
Itaiguara Brandão – electric bass
Mauricio Zottarelli – added percussion
Rich DeRosa – triangle

7. A-440

Arranged by Jeff Berlin, horns arranged by Jeff Berlin,  interlude composed by Jeff Berlin

Featured Soloist:
Jeff Berlin – electric bass, piano

Guest band member:
Rich DeRosa – drums

8. NERO

Reimagined by Garry Dial

Featured Soloists:
Garry Dial – piano
Jay Anderson – bass

Guest band member:
John Riley – drums

9. PLUTO LANGUAGE

Reimagined by Victor Provost

Featured Soloists:
Victor Provost – steel pan, piano
Dick Oatts – soprano sax
Anne Drummond – flute
Mauricio Zottarelli – drums

Guest band members:
Garry Dial – piano
Itaiguara Brandão – electric bass

10. PELAGHIA

Composed by Charlie Banacos

Featuring:
Margaret Banacos – piano
Barbara Banacos – piano

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