Being part of Zuzu Bollin's comeback show is a great memory and this is the only capture I've found of it! You may hear me on sax but can't see me, the trumpet player and I are looking at each other making it up as we go along.... sometimes there's no rehearsal for the blues! And yes, on drums is the late great Doyle Bramhall.
Happy to be re-creating music I've
heard all my life. With the Deep Blue Studio Orchestra, it was a tribute to
Burt Bacharach....
Here's the way to sample Mike Pellecchia's music
Word Harvest playlist: 7 songs, about 26 minutes. Cute songs, cute lyrics.
Mike on Sax! playlist: 7 songs, almost 30 minutes, different instrumentals I've tried on sax, 5 originals and 2 covers.
Next Town Over playlist: 15 songs, about an hour, the album which may never be released. Flawed.
Swings Again! playlist: 10 songs, about 30 minutes. 2 covers at the end, the rest originals.
The "Michael and Nung" music video combines composition and performance with the video and editing art of Nung-Hsin Hu, rendered in New York and Connecticut. Mike's composition for three clarinets (b flat, a, and bass) is called Kaleenka Suite. It's Mike's "classical" side during a residency at i-Park Foundation. Here is a link to the music of Chronic Jazz Syndrome where Mike plays bass. The two videos below show Mike sitting in on alto sax.
"Soul Bossa" -- instrumental
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Here's some more of Mike's instrumental work:
"Soul Bossa" -- most recent single released on streaming services February 13, 2023. Check your favorite streaming service or search engine “music Michael Pellecchia”.
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...With the Blue Note Big Band, it was the Blood, Sweat and Tears arrangement of God Bless The Child. I tried to get out all the notes of the Fred Lipsius solo that slayed me as a kid....can't blame me for tryin'!
Here's an obscure clarinet chamber music piece with the Artful Noise String Quartet, the premiere string quartet of the seacoast Maine and New Hampshire region.