Composer and saxophonist Bobby Selvaggio tells the story of a father’s adoration for his son from birth through adulthood with Stories, Dreams, Inspirations: For My Boy with 11-piece ensemble, due out April 12, 2024 via Hidden Cinema Records A veteran of the New York jazz scene who now dedicates his passions to pushing the jazz … Read More
By George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly Recorded “live” at the Bop Stop at the Music Settlement in swinging Ohio, this album has Bobby Selvaggion playing a boppingly bright alto along with some pedal affects, mixing and matching with his core team of Theron Brown/p-key, Paul Thompson/b and Zaire Darden/dr with cameo guests Dan Wilson/eg and … Read More
By Suzanne Lorge, Downbeat Jazz soloing tends to feed on the energy of a live audience, which is why albums like Bobby Selvaggio’s Live From The Bop Stop are so exciting. Selvaggio has considerable experience in the control room—10 previous studio albums as a bandleader—but with this latest effort, he drops his first live release. … Read More
Por José Ramón, La Habitación del Jazz Creció en el área de Cleveland; obtuvo su Bachelor of Music in Music Performance de la Kent State University. En Nueva York estudió con Joe Lovano, Bobby Watson, Dick Oatts y Maria Schneider. Lea mas aqui.
By Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs’s Blog For some time, and particularly during these Corona-Virus-days, hot beds of jazz in big cities is fading away. For lack of performance spaces and even worse, lack of audiences, even before the Covid19, jazz musicians were leaving. The Northeast Ohio Music Scene has suffered greatly due to the … Read More
By Jim Hynes, Making A Scene We didn’t want to leave this one behind. This is alto saxophonist Bobby Selvaggio’s eleventh album and first live recording, Live from the Bop Stop. Specifically the site is the Bop Stop at the Music Settlement in Cleveland, OH, a place where the bandleader has performed countless times over the past three decades … Read More
By Chris Spector, Midwest Records ANDY MILNE & UNISON/reMission: Nothing like beating cancer to make you rethink your career goals. The piano man beat the big C, refocused his efforts on forging a trio and doing it while relocating. He’s always known his stuff but here, in a classic format revisiting some classic tunes, he … Read More
Dot Time Recording Artist Bobby Selvaggio Set to Release His First Live Album ‘Live From the Bop Stop’ Out 2/21 Dot Time Records is pleased to announce the February 21st release of Bobby Selvaggio’s ‘Live from the Bop Stop’. Selvaggio’s eleventh release as a bandleader also marks his first album recorded in a live context. … Read More
