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Brian Torff and Manfredo Fest - Some Call it Jazz (DVD)
No full textBrian Torff is the composer and bassist on this DVD.
DVD description: This 9-song performance from a 1991 concert features Brian Torff, a renowned bassist and composer, and Manfredo Fest, Brazil\u27s bossa nova pioneer, in one very special performance.
DVD Release Date: May 16, 2006
Total length: ca. 60 minuteshttps://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/visualandperformingarts-music/1001/thumbnail.jp
Phantom Pluckers (EP/CD)
No full textBrian Torff composed, arranged and produced this CD. In addition he is a vocalist and plays the electric bass, stick bass and harmonica.
Recorded at The Loft Recording Studios, Bronxville, New York, April 4, 2012.
Phantom Pluckers is a rock power trio combining a veteran jazz, blues and rock bassman with two younger talents. Bassist, composer and vocalist Brian Q. Torff is a music professor at Fairfield University with Chicago blues-rock jazz roots. He collaborates with two of this students, guitarist Jamie Debicella, and drummer Jon Rivers, i n a musical exchange spanning generations. Phantom Pluckers music is high energy and explosive. -- from CD cover.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/visualandperformingarts-music/1003/thumbnail.jp
The Glass Menagerie-the original Motion Picture Soundtrack (CD)
No full textBrian Torff is a contributing artist (bassist) on this CD
Every Now and Then (CD)
No full textBrian Torff is a contributing artist (bassist) on this CD.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/visualandperformingarts-music/1021/thumbnail.jp
Alive on Arrival (CD)
No full textBrian Torff is a contributing artist (bassist) on this CD.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/visualandperformingarts-music/1028/thumbnail.jp
Nights in Brazil (CD)
No full textBrian Torff is a contributing artist (bassist) on this CD.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/visualandperformingarts-music/1013/thumbnail.jp
In Love With Voices: A Jazz Memoir
No full textIn the early 70s, an idealistic young man – Brian Torff – arrived in New York to pursue his passion for music. During an excursion to Long Island, Brian found his dream instrument: a 1775 re-built Nicola Galliano bass.
Such was the beginning of a career that led Torff from Café Carlyle to Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and the White House. He has toured worldwide with the greatest: from Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, George Shearing, and Erroll Garner to Stephane Grappelli, Benny Goodman, Mary Lou Williams, and Marian McPartland.
As Brian notes, “bass players do a lot of observing from the back of the bandstand.” It is this supportive role that qualifies Torff to share his insight into jazz music, and its many personalities. Torff takes us beyond the music by adding depth with his vision of American music, and paints vivid portraits of the musicians with whom he played.
Torff’s memoir is one of creativity, and determination mixed with timing, and plain good luck. His sharp narrative not only brings the legends of jazz to life, but reading about them here will certainly motivate you to add some music to your collection.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/visualandperformingarts-books/1003/thumbnail.jp
Portrait of Marian McPartland (CD)
No full textBrian Torff is a contributing artist (bassist) on this CD.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/visualandperformingarts-music/1024/thumbnail.jp
Laughing at Life (CD)
No full textBrian Torff is a contributing artist (bassist) on this CD.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/visualandperformingarts-music/1020/thumbnail.jp
From This Moment On (CD)
No full textBrian Torff is a contributing artist (bassist) on this CD.
Recorded at Coast Recorders, San Francisco, CA, December 1978.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/visualandperformingarts-music/1027/thumbnail.jp
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