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Press
"Tonelli's tone is pure and reminiscent of the legends. Powerful straight-up jazz guitar."-Jazzreview.com"I found the ensemble to be quite talented. Tonelli is quite an able composer... plenty of rich sonorities and blended voices. Nice stuff." -Cadence Magazine"Made every patron feel as if it was a personal jazzfest at their own living room."-Dallasmusic.com "Fans of pure jazz will find The Mark Tonelli Group's self-titled debut to be well worth their time. Excellent jazz guitar album."-Internet Ed Music Review"Super musicians... an excellent experience."-Dallas-Ft. Worth Jazz Guitar and Bass Society"... Tonelli has penned some very cogent compositions for our edification.....And, his group reveals them wondrously from the inside-out. All his sidemen ply their respective crafts prodigiously, creating a kind of a copious impovisational slate of cool jazz. The group presents a panoply of solid musical syncopation containing both a reassuring as well as a quiet quintessence of pure bebop.... The group sounds superb. Bravo guys!!" -Ejazznews "... this CD brims with a quieter, more satisfying intelligence... [Tonelli's] solos expertly shift between rhythmic phrases and warm flurries... a hard bop celebration... really good!"-Jazz Now"...thoughtful and delightful... subtle and seemingly effortless is Mark Tonellis guitar playing... finger fire set to original compositions... Mark gets involvement from his group and yet has the patience that shows he's completely comfortable to let the music do the talking... the listener gets to hear how clever Mark can turn phrases within phrases... Smartly, he finds the balance to let the listener know hes the leader without being overbearing." -North Texas E-News"...horn sections are brilliant in layered phrases." -Allaboutjazz.com
New York-based guitarist Mark Tonelli is an award-winning guitarist, composer, educator, and author.Mark has enjoyed a busy career performing with artists such as Clay Aiken, Jon Faddis, Rita Moreno, Carol Channing, Lynn Seaton, Denis DeBlasio, Greg Bissonette, Ed Soph, Andrea McArdle, Al Martino, Bobby Rydell, The Coasters, and The Platters. Mark has been leading his own group and appearing as a sideman with other artists for two decades. He has performed at the 55 Bar, Cornelia St. Cafe, St. Peter's Church, The Ft. Worth Jazz Festival, The Cottonwood Art Festival, The Dallas Museum of Art, and in numerous other venues. He has performed in Russia, Holland, and Canada and throughout the United States. Mark's group was featured on the award-winning web show The Digital Cafe Tour. The group has released two critically-acclaimed CD's, The Mark Tonelli Group and Chasing The Myth on the MTonal Music label. The group's third CD, The Thread, is due for release in 2011.Mark is the guitarist for the West Point Band's Jazz Knights. He has performed with the Jazz Knights at Blues Alley, Jazz Showcase, Kennedy Center, Jazz Kitchen, Count Basie Theatre, The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, The Midwest Clinic, and in many other venues. With the Jazz Knights Mark has performed with a who's who of jazz legends such as Benny Golson, Billy Cobham, Bobby Watson, Randy Brecker, Steve Turre, Rufus Reid, Bob Mintzer, John Riley, and Adam Nussbaum.Mark's music has been featured on National Public Radio (NPR), and he has won composition awards from Billboard Magazine and The Great American Song Contest. His many arrangements for the Jazz Knights are performed regularly in concert and appear on their CD's. When not performing, Mark is a dedicated educator. He is currently adjunct professor of music at St. Thomas Aquinas College in Sparkill, NY. He has been associate professor of music at Collin County College and North Lake College in the Dallas, TX area. Mark is the author of the MTonal Guitar Method. He has written instructional articles forGuitar Player, Downbeat, The Jazz Education Journal, JazzEd, Jazz Improv, Just Jazz Guitar, and The Instrumentalist. He also wrote a monthly guitar instructional column for the Texas music magazine Origin.Mark earned a bachelor of music in jazz performance from William Paterson University and a Master of Music degree from the University of North Texas, where he was a member of the award-winning Two O'Clock Lab Band and a teaching fellow in the area of jazz studies. He is completing his doctor of education degree at Columbia University Teachers College.
Discography
Coming soon! The Thread Mark Tonelli Quartet Turning Points Jazz KnightsUnity Through Diversity Marina Arsenijevic with the West Point BandAt First Light Jazz KnightsCommissions 2006 Jazz KnightsChasing The Myth The Mark Tonelli GroupThe Mark Tonelli GroupSALT Mathematics Shakers and Learners TogetherIo E Il Presente TaniTwo O'Clock Jazz Band Two O'Clock Lab Band
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