"His playing is modern and infused with an emotional intensity sure to make an indelible impression upon you......."

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	"This innovative, NY sax player and composer is superb. His technique and command of his instrument is wonderful, highly charged and dynamic, a fusion of bop and funk with an original modal approach......"
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	Rich Lamanna released his cd 'Introspective' at the Van Dyck Restaurant on Friday, April 21st. Rich's latest group 'The Last Word', is a Jaco Pastorius and Weather Report inspired afro-latin project featuring Alex Acuna on percussion (Weather Report), Kenwood Dennard on drums (Miles Davis, Sting, Jaco Pastorius), Othello Molineaux on steel drums (Santana, Herbie Hancock), Otmaro Ruiz on piano (Dianne Reeves), Chuck D'Aloia on guitar (Nick Brignola), Jack Kulp and Paul Othon on bass, Pat Georger and Dan Dobek on keyboards, Reggie Evans and Chris Garabedian on drums and percussion. Rich a graduate of the Berklee College of Music, he has directed orchestras in the Caribbean, the US and South America and performed with the Contemporary Orchestra of Peru and with Brazilian guitarist Ricardo Silveira and Jay Azzalino (Spiro Gyra).

richlamanna@earthlink.net