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Peter DeVeber, Art

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Peter DeVeber

Peter DeVeber….Lives by the sea,
he paints
and writes poetry

For information about art, email Peter at pdeveber@comcast.net


Dave Zinno SOLD

Van Goghs of Jazz –
Van Gogh, Monk, Abate   SOLD
Miles Doo-Bop Hommage to Annie Leibovitz

Chet Sings Acrylic
Anita O’Day acrylic,  Newport ’58 SOLD

Billy Taylor acrylic
Sarah live in Japan

Stan
Billie  

Billie sings jazz    SOLD
Miles Four      SOLD
Brigitte Zarie 2Brigitte Zarie, NY Jazz Singer  
“I’ve been a friend of jazz since attending the very first Newport (RI) Jazz Festival in 1954.  When I mentioned this to festival founder George Wein a few years ago, he was happy to know that I was a paying customer and not one who went in over the fence.  I was 15 that summer.  After high school, I did a brief tour with remnants of the Beat Generation – it was then I did my first ‘jazz sketches’ in ink – I wonder if any of those drawings are still around.  1985 to September 1998, I did public and press relations and scheduling for former middleweight boxing champion of the world Marvelous Marvin Hagler.  I’ve done publicity for friend and jazz saxophonist Greg Abate.  I produced 2 CDs with Abate as leader; My Buddy released in 1995 showcasing tunes written by Jack Stevens and Broken Dreams released in 1997.  Both recordings were critically acclaimed.  These sessions featured Greg Abate, Mac Chrupcala, Donna Byrne, Marshall Wood, Al Bernstein, Dave Zinno, John Anter, Paul Fontaine and Frank Tiberi.  I’ve drawn and painted for more than 50 years.  In 2005 I wrote Lady on the Narrows, a book of haiku – American haiku as defined by Jack Kerouac.  Kerouac was the ‘jazz poet’.  And in 2009 I wrote a chapbook of poetry titled Great Miles.  Painting and writing are like jazz I think – the motion the improv.  My wife Jean and I reside in Massachusetts and Maine” <>   Peter DeVeber

For information about art, email Peter at pdeveber@comcast.net

Kat Gang sings Dream Your Troubles Away

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Brown-haired vocalist on CD coverby Peter DeVeber

Kat Gang sings Dream Your Troubles Away.  Holy Smoke!  What a record!  What a band!  Terrific song choices.  Terrific musicians.  There’s a real neatness to this jazz – a kind of Charlie’s Gone By elegance.  Richness in rhythm, voice and plunking.  Hey!  Mike Renzi is a monster – and there are others on this album.  Surely.  The horns the strings all there full.  Not one of these people mailed in their performance.  The solos, the company, yes, flawless.  Pros.  And Kat Gang sings it.  Ellington and Miles would have noticed.  And smiled on this singer.  And on her Solitude and Bye Bye, my two favorites here.  Listen to Kat Gang.  In a group of All-Stars, she is the star.
A big cast with Kat: Bucky Pizzarelli, Mike Renzi, Jay Leonhart, Joe Ascione, Harry Allen, Warren Vache and John Allred.  Five Stars!
13 tracks standards.  Five Stars!
Available at www.amazon.com and visit www.katgang.net <>

CD: L’amour, Brigitte Zarie

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CD picture of dark-haired girl with head thrown back

Review, by Peter DeVeber

To paraphrase Peter Bonventre of Newsweek magazine on his leaving the Boston Garden and a Hagler fight in November 1978, “Marvelous Marvin is a beautiful fighter!” – well, “Brigitte Zarie is a beautiful singer.”

Oh, that bass!  And Randy Brecker featured on 2 tunes.  Oh, that horn!  First class production.  Big orchestra sound.  Nice instrumentation.  Now, Brigitte, it’s Good to Be Home listening to this on Quiet Nights with Nobody Else – 12 tunes impeccably swinging – crisp and beat.

My favorite female vocalist Anita O’Day.  Brigitte is a new favorite – not the edge of a Miss O’Day, but as full voiced and vibrant and lyrical.  And sincere.  I see myself at Charlie’s Gone By listening to both.  Whoa!  Wow!  Outstanding!  And elegant!

Brigitte is an extraordinary songwriter too – except for Walk the Line and Quiet Nights (Corcovado), she wrote all of the songs on L’amour – music by Brigitte Zarie and Neil Jason; lyrics by Brigitte Zarie.  I’m hearing standards all over the place.

To paraphrase Bonventre again, “Brigitte is a beautiful songwriter.”  L’amour highly highly recommended.  It is a story.  And it is jazz.  L’amour is available at iTunes and Amazon and Brigitte’s website http://brigittezarie.com/

Brigitte Zarie, by Peter DeVeber

Brigitte Zarie, by Peter DeVeber

– Peter DeVeber