	
The group, One O'Clock Jump, based out Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was a jazz/swing vocal group that performed together throughout much of the 1980's.

All five members were natives of Boston, New Bedford and Cape Cod.

The group performed original vocal arrangements of big band orchestrations and other vocal group charts by well noted jazz and swing groups from the 1930's through the 50's, including Lambert Hendricks and Ross, The Modernaires, The Andrew Sisters, The Mill Brothers and many more.

Using harmony, vocalese and scat soloing as featured highlights in many of the group's songs, One O'Clock Jump had a unique sound enjoyed by jazz and swing audiences on both East and West Coasts.

One O'clock Jump performed together for almost 9 years before disbanding, playing concerts, festivals and club dates with a number of renown big bands including The Count Basie Orchestra, The Buddy Rich Orchestra, The Artie Shaw Band and more......

Boston Herald says: "It's a contemporary musical flashback to the 1930's and 40's. A carbon microphone with a 20-20,000HZ. The sound would make Glenn Miller smile. The arrangements would please Billy Strayhorn. They're old, they're new, borrowed, blue......Latin swing and jazz vocals, casually elegant and elegantly casual. They will entertain you. They'll make you smile. You'll love them."

The Monterey Herald: "One O'Clock Jump's arrangements are fresh and contemporary interpretations of the classics."

I hope you enjoy listening to One O'Clock Jump Live again!

Shoo Shoo Baby

The group, One O'Clock Jump, based out Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was a jazz/swing vocal group that performed together throughout much of the 1980's.

All five members were natives of Boston, New Bedford and Cape Cod.

The group performed original vocal arrangements of big band orchestrations and other vocal group charts by well noted jazz and swing groups from the 1930's through the 50's, including Lambert Hendricks and Ross, The Modernaires, The Andrew Sisters, The Mill Brothers and many more.

Using harmony, vocalese and scat soloing as featured highlights in many of the group's songs, One O'Clock Jump had a unique sound enjoyed by jazz and swing audiences on both East and West Coasts.

One O'clock Jump performed together for almost 9 years before disbanding, playing concerts, festivals and club dates with a number of renown big bands including The Count Basie Orchestra, The Buddy Rich Orchestra, The Artie Shaw Band and more......

Boston Herald says: "It's a contemporary musical flashback to the 1930's and 40's. A carbon microphone with a 20-20,000HZ. The sound would make Glenn Miller smile. The arrangements would please Billy Strayhorn. They're old, they're new, borrowed, blue......Latin swing and jazz vocals, casually elegant and elegantly casual. They will entertain you. They'll make you smile. You'll love them."

The Monterey Herald: "One O'Clock Jump's arrangements are fresh and contemporary interpretations of the classics."

I hope you enjoy listening to One O'Clock Jump Live again!

These recordings are remastered from an audio tape series of live performances dating back to the 1980s by One O'Clock Jump in both concerts and jazz clubs from East to West Coast.

thanks,

Rick Britto, pianist/arranger

Blue Skies

Glow Worm

Pick Yourself Up

"For Your Love"
Rick Britto
TrineArc Music 2011

For Your Love" featuring jazz saxophonist, Rick Britto is a Contemporary Jazz recording of all fresh and exciting originals songs for lovers to enjoy!  

The album covers many styles of Contemporary Jazz music crossing from R&B and Soul to Funk and Hip Hop even Reggae and Latin grooves which all make up the foundation of the recording.

The album features some of Rick's dear friends from near and a far as guest artist through out the album. Composer and producer, Nesta Talmadge from Caen, France, vocalist supreme, Joani Taylor from Vancouver Canada, composer and trumpeter, Jack Gomes and bassist, Ed Oliver both from my home town of New Bedford, MA

Summer's Night

Pure Delight

Bio:
from Rick Britto, pianist arranger for the group: 

ONE O'CLOCK JUMP LIVE 

These recordings are remastered from an audio tape series of live performances dating back to the 1980s by One O'Clock Jump in both concerts and jazz clubs from East to West Coast. 

The group, One O'Clock Jump, based out Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was a jazz/swing vocal group that performed together throughout much of the 1980's. 

All five members were natives of Boston, New Bedford and Cape Cod. 

The group performed original vocal arrangements of big band orchestrations and other vocal group charts by well noted jazz and swing groups from the 1930's through the 50's, including Lambert Hendricks and Ross, The Modernaires, The Andrew Sisters, The Mill Brothers and many more. 

Using harmony, vocalese and scat soloing as featured highlights in many of the group's songs, One O'Clock Jump had a unique sound enjoyed by jazz and swing audiences on both East and West Coasts. 

One O'clock Jump performed together for almost 9 years before disbanding, playing concerts, festivals and club dates with a number of renown big bands including The Count Basie Orchestra, The Buddy Rich Orchestra, The Artie Shaw Band and more...... 

Boston Herald says: "It's a contemporary musical flashback to the 1930's and 40's. A carbon microphone with a 20-20,000HZ. The sound would make Glenn Miller smile. The arrangements would please Billy Strayhorn. They're old, they're new, borrowed, blue......Latin swing and jazz vocals, casually elegant and elegantly casual. They will entertain you. They'll make you smile. You'll love them." 

The Monterey Herald: "One O'Clock Jump's arrangements are fresh and contemporary interpretations of the classics." 

I hope you enjoy listening to One O'Clock Jump Live again! 

thanks, 

Rick Britto, pianist/arranger 

In A Mellow Tone

Funky Mama

"For Your Love" featuring jazz saxophonist, Rick Britto is a Contemporary Jazz recording of all fresh and exciting originals songs for lovers to enjoy!  

The album covers many styles of Contemporary Jazz music crossing from R&B and Soul to Funk and Hip Hop even Reggae and Latin grooves which all make up the foundation of the recording.

The album features some of Rick's dear friends from near and a far as guest artist through out the album. Composer and producer, Nesta Talmadge from Caen, France, vocalist supreme, Joani Taylor from Vancouver Canada, composer and trumpeter, Jack Gomes and bassist, Ed Oliver both from my home town of New Bedford, MA

Time and Again

First Kiss

Giant Rasta Steps [Nesta Talmadge Productions & Rob Michael on guitar]

Determination [feat Jack Gomes]

TRINE: "+1"
TrineArc Music 
BMI 2011

"+1", Trine's second recording, continues further with the trios collective improvisational explorations with the addition of bassist Chris Lopes to the core trio.

The musical selections on the CD have the group evolving with a multi- directional compositional palette. One third of the CD allows the quartet to develop many musical devices and textures such as with the pedal point/ drone of: "Passage" and the time sketches of "Walking in New York" and "Time Piece".

Other individual compositional contributions come to the fold with the sectional compositions of Chris Lopes in "Pancake Supper" and "Retro" and the introspective ballads of Jim Robitaille's "Still" and Back To "Bayeux".

Saxophonist Rick Britto brought Thelonious Monk's "Nutty" for the group to dig into for this session, as well as having engineered, mixed and mastered the recording.

Jim Robitaille (September (2010)


Vamp

This was recorded with drummer and composer, Charlie Xavier better known as The XMan way back in 1977! I was a brash and crazy young fellow breaking every rule I could get my hands on! Satori the name for the group was chosen because it is one of the last stages of Enlightenment claimed by Buddah to be on the way to Nirvana! The piece was all about Ornette's Harmelodics which I was greatly experimenting with at the time. Much of "Conversations with Erik & I" is based on these very principles that I was just beginning to work on in 1977!

Collision

A Tisket A Tasket

 "In The Sky"
Rick Britto - Matt Richard

performers:
Rick Britto - tenor saxophone
Matt Richard - piano

Recording, Mixing and Mastering by Rick Britto
Cover Design by Matt Richard
Recorded at Wheaton College on August 16, 2010
©2010 All Rights Reserved - BMI and TrineArc Music	 
 

LINER NOTES FROM RICK BRITTO:
   Recorded in only a three hour session, this recent collaboration with Matt has been a labor of love. Matt and I have played in numerous ensembles for years from big band to small ensembles but, this is our first time working together in a duo setting. Matt is one of the most sensitive players I have had the opportunity to ever perform with. HIs compositions are both beautiful and poignant creations I had the pleasure to perform on this recording.
   All six of my compositions on "In The Sky" are very different in style or feel and all were composed for people and places in my life's experience. "Miles Away" was written while doing more than 10 years of road travel gigging in the 1980s. In The Sky is a circular melody that never seems to end. It was actually written while I was floating in the sky of a waking lucid dream. Sometimes dreams do come true and can become real music! "Forever More" is thru-composed love song written in the jazz waltz feel. It also has lyrics which I hope to someday record with a vocalist. "Lionel" is a traditional 1940s style jazz swing ballad composed as a tribute to my first saxophone teacher and mentor, Lionel Soares, who unfortunately passed away in July 2009. Lionel had a great influence on my life in music. This composition and performance recreates Lionel's style and grace as I remember him dearly. "My Mama" is a tribute to my Mom, Evie Britto, written in the traditional Cape Verdean rhythmic style called the Coladeira. "Starry Eyed Girl" is my take on the classic tune, Star Eyes, written as a tribute to my girl friend, Kathy Crowley, who is the female vocalist that brightens the stage in performance with the folk group, Pumpkin Head Ted.

LINER NOTES FROM MATT RICHARD:
   This recent collaboration with Rick Britto has been very positive.  We have known each other for the past twenty years and have played together in many jazz settings, but not as a duo until now.  Rick has an amazing technical capacity on the tenor saxophone but he also plays with a tremendous amount of feeling.  His interpretations of each melody are unique and well conceived.  Rick is also a very good jazz pianist and that kept me on my toes for this session.  I appreciate his ability to not only compose and perform this project but to record and edit it as well.
   I consider all five of my compositions on "In The Sky" fairly straight-ahead in form, melody, and harmony.  The rhythms are based on traditional swing, Latin-American, and ballad styles with plenty of space in which can players can improvise. "Side Step" has loose connections to Lee Morgan’s composition "Ceora".  It was inspired by the original introduction that I used for that song on my first CD. "Past" was originally written and set in a different key as part of a collection of duets that I wrote for the bassist Bronek Suchanek.  This song and that complete duo project will hopefully be recorded someday soon. The choro rhythm of "Strait Ahead" is typically Brazilian and the feel of this song came through listening to pianist Alan Pasqua’s composition Highway as well as the music of composer and bandleader Maria Schneider. "Swingin’ At The Columns" is a tribute to two of my favorite jazz musicians of all time, Dave McKenna and Dick Johnson, who performed at a club called The Columns on Cape Cod for many years. Finally, "A Song For Semenya" was influenced by my collaborations over the years with jazz vocalist Semenya McCord.  Although in meter of 3/4, it has a bit of Horace Silver’s Song For My Father and other gospel roots in it.


In The Sky by Rick Britto & Matt Richard - Audio Introduction

In The Sky Outro

"Untitled"

Excerpt of an untitled composition by Jim Robitaille recorded in the 1980's but never released on recording.    

Rick Britto - tenor sax
Jim Robitaille - guitar
Dave Gallant - bass
Frank Gallant - drums

Untitled [excerpts]

from Rick Britto, pianist arranger for the group: 

ONE O'CLOCK JUMP LIVE 

These recordings are remastered from an audio tape series of live performances dating back to the 1980s by One O'Clock Jump in both concerts and jazz clubs from East to West Coast. 

The group, One O'Clock Jump, based out Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was a jazz/swing vocal group that performed together throughout much of the 1980's. 

All five members were natives of Boston, New Bedford and Cape Cod. 

The group performed original vocal arrangements of big band orchestrations and other vocal group charts by well noted jazz and swing groups from the 1930's through the 50's, including Lambert Hendricks and Ross, The Modernaires, The Andrew Sisters, The Mill Brothers and many more. 

Using harmony, vocalese and scat soloing as featured highlights in many of the group's songs, One O'Clock Jump had a unique sound enjoyed by jazz and swing audiences on both East and West Coasts. 

One O'clock Jump performed together for almost 9 years before disbanding, playing concerts, festivals and club dates with a number of renown big bands including The Count Basie Orchestra, The Buddy Rich Orchestra, The Artie Shaw Band and more...... 

Boston Herald says: "It's a contemporary musical flashback to the 1930's and 40's. A carbon microphone with a 20-20,000HZ. The sound would make Glenn Miller smile. The arrangements would please Billy Strayhorn. They're old, they're new, borrowed, blue......Latin swing and jazz vocals, casually elegant and elegantly casual. They will entertain you. They'll make you smile. You'll love them." 

The Monterey Herald: "One O'Clock Jump's arrangements are fresh and contemporary interpretations of the classics." 

Lullaby of Birdland

Better Half

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Rick Britto is a well known jazz musician from the New England area. 

Britto's latest recording projects include: "For Your Love", "Conversations with Erik & I", Trine: " +1" and "In The Sky" all released on the new TrineArc Music label in the last two years from 2009-2011. 

Previous releases on other labels include: The Lord's Orphans: "Holy City", Trine: "Politics", Andy McWain Ensemble: "Resemblance" ," One O'clock Jump Live".
 
As a musician, Rick Britto has performed with many artists and groups both nationally and locally including Karl Berger, Santi Debriano, Harold Jones, Freddie Redd, Kate McGarry, One O'clock Jump, Royal Hartigan, Wes Brown, Armsted Christian, Jim Robitaille, Semenya McCord, Marcelle Gauvin, John Harrison, Chris Poudrier, Bruce Gertz, Dave Zinno, Herb King, Kenny Wensel, Lou Columbo, Frank Wilkins, Alon Yavnai and numerous other musicians.
 
He has been double billed with such jazz notables as Ray Brown, Monty Alexander, Rosemary Clooney, Dick Johnson, Dave McKenna, The Artie Shaw Band, The Buddy Rich Band, and Count Basie's Orchestra.

In the world of popular music, Britto has performed with many R&B recording acts from The Drifters and The Tuneweavers to Tavares and even Queen Latifa to name a few.

Rick Britto is also a well known jazz educator from the New England area. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, he is a faculty member at both the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Wheaton College instructing private lessons for saxophone and jazz piano, directing music ensembles and teaching Jazz Theory and African-American Music History.
 
He has also taught younger students locally by assisting band directors for both New Bedford and Old Rochester Regional High School Bands for years and currently teaches a few gifted younger students privately in his home. Rick has also adjudicated many concerts, clinics and competitions in school districts in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

Rick Britto also owns a recording studio, Saurus Studio, where he has produced numerous projects for radio & television and engineered, recorded or mastered recordings for many artists locally.
 
 Latest projects include CD mastering for "Union", Cheryl Conte: "Fortress", "O Caboverdiano" and “Boa Vista” by Cape Verdean guitarist and cavaquinho player, Tazinho, Andy McWain Ensemble: "Resemblance", Trine: "Politics", Trine: " +1", Rick Britto - Matt Richard: "In The Sky", Conversations with Erik & I" and his latest recoding project, a Smooth Jazz CD entitled, "For Your Love".

In the publishing world, Britto digitally restored and mastered old recordings for "The Music of South India" published by Prof. Matthew Allen of Wheaton College for Oxford University Press and scored music for "Jazz Consciousness Music, Race, and Humanity" by Prof. Paul Austerlitz for Wesleyan University Press.

Rick Britto is also a professional web designer and web master for several artists and musician's websites including musical artists: Harold Jones, Semenya McCord, Marcelle Gauvin, Jack Gomes, The Dancing Dogs and Cobach Musik plus, psychic medium, Gail Hicks, Cape Verdean artist/photographer, Ron Barboza and political candidate for Ward 1 in New Bedford, Randy Santos.

His newest venture is into the world of visual art! He debuted his first piece of digital art work, "Mind, Body & Soul" a digital self-portrait, at Gallery X in downtown New Bedford as part of the Public Hanging Art Exhibit in August of 2010.

For more information on Rick Britto, please visit his personal web site: http://rickbritto.com

Rick Britto

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