Off Broadway [Import]

Frank Vignola | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 15, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Nagel-Heyer
• ASIN: B0000DEQ5B
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #372,671 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Funny How

2. Stars Fell on Alabama [I]

3. Off Broadway

4. Limone's Blues

5. The Return

6. Stardust

7. Sing That

8. Cookin' at the Continental

9. Never, Never

10. Annie

11. In the Hills

12. Frankly Speaking

13. Stars Fell on Alabama [II]

14. It's All Right With Me

15. What's Up

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great album of neo-swing, December 21, 2002

By 

Jan P. Dennis "Longboard jazzer" (Monument, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Off Broadway (Audio CD)

This is not my usual cup of tea. Although I tend to like and appreciate a wide palatte of modern jazz, swing doesn't usually find its way to my vast and growing collection.

I bought this disc primarily because I saw drummer Joe Ascione was on it. I'd heard Ascione once before, and I was completely blown away by his incredible sense of swing. Along with John Goldsby on bass and Sir Roland Hanna on piano, this is surely among the finest swing rhythm sections ever recorded. And they do not disappoint.

Vignola has a very attractive single-note style on guitar, is very fleet-fingured, incorporates spot-on intonation, has a sophisticated rhymthmic sense, and effectively comps where appropriate. All in all, a very accomplished set. Only those who are allergic to swing should avoid it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Where Has Drummer Joe Ascione Been Hiding?, February 16, 2008

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Bryan L. Neff (North Central PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Off Broadway (Audio CD)

WOW! This has to rank right up there as one of the very best straight ahead jazz albums I have ever come across! I have been playing drums semi-professionally for 43 years now and I would have to say that Joe Ascione's playing on this album is simply amazing.... some of the very best I have heard. Frank Vignola's guitar work and all the rest of the musicians on this title are just as incredible! I love to find hidden gems like this. Check out Vignola's equally superb Gershwin album, and Ascione's beautiful brush work, if you like this one.