I’m excited to announce that the Jon De Lucia Group will finally be heading into the studio this July. I’ve never recorded with the current lineup of Greg Ruggiero, Chris Tordini and Tommy Crane and am very happy to finally be able to do it. We’ll be recording all original music, some of which I wrote years ago. We’ve been playing together for years, since I moved to NYC, and have recorded and played with each other in different projects but have never recorded my originals.
To prepare for the session we’ll be playing all of the tunes at Caffe Vivaldi in the West Village on Saturday July 5th at 7pm.
If you can’t make it to that, please come help us celebrate with two sets at IBEAM on July 26th.
My other band, Background Music, with tenorist Kyle Wilson, is also hoping to record soon. We’ll be at the new club, Silvana, in Harlem on August 12 with the great rhythm section of Murray Wall and Taro Okamoto. We’ll play a set of arrangements of standards, along with tunes by Gerry Mulligan, Warne Marsh and more.
As a sideman, I’m very happy that Alex Wyatt’s group, also with Kyle and I, is getting together this June, on the 18th at Seeds, Ohad Talmor’s great venue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Don’t miss that band!