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— Contemporary jazz arrangements of classical compositions --
PUBLISHED REVIEWS OF DYAD PLAYS JAZZ ARIAS
“Killer players with well-honed chops, several of the first takes on display here will simply blow your mind, as will the rest of this pure listening date.”
Chris Spector - Midwest Record
'Dyad Takes Opera to the Jazz Clubs'
"A terrifically creative album, one that simply cannot be fully appreciated or savored in just one listening. There is, literally, so much going on here that you need to listen two or three times at least. What a great album! Trumpeter Randy Brecker is at his very best here. Caimano sounds a bit like Johnny Hodges on steroids: the same sort of pure tone with far more “edge” and risk-taking. ”
Art Music Lounge by Lynn Bailey
“A tour de force…
Lance Liddle - Bebop Spoken Here
This stately and absolutely robust collection of seven classical arias vibrates with an impeccable sense of immediacy and grace…DYAD fearlessly and imaginatively bebop these formidable operatic themes… each taken with improvisatory flair and soaring musicianship… Caimano and Olsen are the daring bright lights here. Deservedly so.”
Mike Jurkovic - Elmore Magazine
“Beautiful music, reinvented with taste and respect by two immensely talented musicians.”
Bruce Crowther- Jazz Mostly
“Here… Caimano and Olsen… take the most dramatic arias from Mozart’s 1787 Don Giovanni, Barber’s 1956 Vanessa, Bizet’s 1875 Carmen, Verdi’s 1887 Otello and … turn them into gloriously swinging jazz, no mean feat.”
Mike Greenblatt - Aquarian Weekly
PUBLISHED REVIEWS OF DYAD PLAYS JAZZ ARIAS
“Killer players with well-honed chops, several of the first takes on display here will simply blow your mind, as will the rest of this pure listening date.”
Chris Spector - Midwest Record
'Dyad Takes Opera to the Jazz Clubs'
"A terrifically creative album, one that simply cannot be fully appreciated or savored in just one listening. There is, literally, so much going on here that you need to listen two or three times at least. What a great album! Trumpeter Randy Brecker is at his very best here. Caimano sounds a bit like Johnny Hodges on steroids: the same sort of pure tone with far more “edge” and risk-taking. ”
Art Music Lounge by Lynn Bailey
“A tour de force…
Lance Liddle - Bebop Spoken Here
This stately and absolutely robust collection of seven classical arias vibrates with an impeccable sense of immediacy and grace…DYAD fearlessly and imaginatively bebop these formidable operatic themes… each taken with improvisatory flair and soaring musicianship… Caimano and Olsen are the daring bright lights here. Deservedly so.”
Mike Jurkovic - Elmore Magazine
“Beautiful music, reinvented with taste and respect by two immensely talented musicians.”
Bruce Crowther- Jazz Mostly
“Here… Caimano and Olsen… take the most dramatic arias from Mozart’s 1787 Don Giovanni, Barber’s 1956 Vanessa, Bizet’s 1875 Carmen, Verdi’s 1887 Otello and … turn them into gloriously swinging jazz, no mean feat.”
Mike Greenblatt - Aquarian Weekly