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Daniel Duke - Jazz Bass Player and Composer PC: Makolga Photography

Discography

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Joe Wittman Trio Works Lume

"Wittman's low-key but engaging rhetoric is just what we need..." -Stephen Smoliar (The Rehearsal Studio)

 

"The interplay is full of subtle shifts... and the result is a glorious unified experience" -Greg Victor (ParcBench.live)

Joe Wittman - Trio Works Lume
2023
Joe wittman Trio Works Sol w/Daniel Duke (Bass) and Keith Balla (Drums)

"Excellent recording and high-energy playing combine to make a most memorable jazz adventure!" -Dick Metcalf (ContemporaryFusionReviews)

"Wittman is feeling the spirit on this one" -George W. Harris (jazzweekly)

"As perfectly inventive, intuitive, conversational and emotionally impactful as jazz trio dates get"

-Jonathan Widran (JWVibe)

Joe Wittman - Trio Works Sol 
2023
Nic Cacioppo and Corey Wilcox Underground Swing

"A fascinating drummer...explodes with a furious energy, but is filtered with precision.. goes hard" -Phillip Freeman (Downbeat) 

Corey Wilcox and Nic Cacioppo - Underground Swing 
Plug Records 2022

Discography 

Strange Lands - by Nicole Glover w/ George Cables (piano) , Daniel Duke (bass) , and Nic Cacioppo (drums)

"This superb album... It's familiar but refreshingly freaky" -Chris Pearson (Times UK)

"The tight bass-and-drum pocket produce(s) an intoxicating sense of excitement" -Britt Robson (Jazztimes)

"The team builds up on Duke's strums on the intense 'Hive Queen'" -George W. Harris (Jazz Weekly)


"One of the standout jazz efforts of 2021" -Apple Music

"The future of the music actually looks quite bright... Duke and Cacioppo follow her ideas while contributing some important input of their own"   -Scott Yanow (LA Jazz Scene)

Nicole Glover - Strange Lands 
Savant Records  2021
Time in Motion - Nic Cacioppo w/ Nicole Glover (tenor sax), Steve Kirsty (tenor sax, bass), Chuck Cacioppo (trumpet). and Daniel Duke (bass)

 "Nic Cacioppo on drums... lends an eddying, contrapuntal fury to the music. Cacioppo is busily impressive, layering polyrhythms the way horn players stack chords" -J.D. Considine (Downbeat)

"Cacioppo's drums sound massive; his toms boom like Elvin Jones's on Coltrane albums from the 1960s" -Phillip Freeman (All About Jazz)

Nic Cacioppo - Time in Motion
2021
Instinct - Nic Cacioppo w/ Cory Wilcox (trombone) and Daniel Duke (bass)

 "Cacioppo adds emotive scope" -Derek Taylor (Dusted Magazine)

"Cacioppo... summons the spirit of Ed Blackwell and Milford Graves" -Peter Margasak (The Quietus)

Nic Cacioppo - INSTINCT
2021
Cait Jones - I Love Being Here With You w/ Michael Hashim (tenor sax), danny Jonokuchi (trumpet), Mariel Bildstein (trombone, arranger), Miki Yamanaka (piano), Jocelyn Gould (guitar), Daniel Duke (bass), and Rob Garcia (drums)

"A jazzy album that recalls the best of an actual period of recording rather than the collective memory of one... The talented instrumentalist she has assembled for the record are unleashed to provide a number of exciting musical moments... You'll find what you've been longing for here."

-Joe Bebco (The Syncopated Times)

"A hot jazz band that gives traditional swing music new life" -Aplez.com

Cait Jones - I Love Being Here with You
2020
Blue Heaven - Lucy Yeghiazaryan w/ Grant Stewart (tenor sax), Greg Ruggiero (guitar), Daniel Duke (bass, arranger) and Steve Williams (drums)

"A Suavely Lithe 'Sweet Pumpkin' that is coaxed along by William's brushes and Duke's jogger's pulse of a bass" -George W. Harris (Jazz Weekly)

"This recording Blue Heaven is a very personal take on some of the most beloved American Standards" -Toronto Music Report

Lucy Yehiazaryan - Blue Heaven
Cellar Live  2019
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