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Dominick Farinacci

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Trumpeter Dominick Farinacci was named the very first Global Ambassador to Jazz at Lincoln Center by Wynton Marsalis, working to further integrate music into communities around the world in culturally collaborative ways. He graduated from The Juilliard School in 2005 launching his career in Japan with a prolific run of eight albums, later releasing four more globally. He has performed in more than 120 cities in 14 countries around the world, was a featured guest on ABC’s Good Morning America, and is a TED Speaker. Music icon Quincy Jones says of Dominick’s accomplishments in performance, recording, education & advocacy, “This kid is 360 degrees!”
Dominick has been successful in his personal endeavors on bringing music into the community through Arts and Wellness & Education
Meet Alto Saxophonist Erena Terakubo

by Sanford Josephson
For many years, trumpeter/educator Tiger Okoshi has been directing the Hokkaido Grove Jazz Camp during summers in Sapporo, Japan. At one of his first camps, he met a 12-year-old alto saxophonist named Erena Terakubo."She was shining, and she knew it," he recalled. She was determined, driven, and already sounded like a young Charlie Parker."
Dominick Farinacci & Friends / Taylor Eigisti & Christian Tamburr Celebrate Chick Corea and Gary Burton at Tri-C JazzFest 2025

by John Chacona
Dominick Farinacci and Friends Taylor Eigsti and Christian Tamburr Celebrate Chick Corea and Gary BurtonMimi Ohio Theatre Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland, OH June 28, 2025 Afternoon presentations at multi-day jazz festivals tend to be low key--and often low-pressure--events. So it was on the final afternoon of the two-day Tri-C JazzFest. ...
46th Annual Tri-C JazzFest

by C. Andrew Hovan
46th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Playhouse Square Cleveland, OH June 26-28, 2025 Jazz festivals occupy a precarious space these days. Pressured by financial constraints, too many have drifted toward booking artists with only a passing connection to the jazz tradition. Cuts to both public and private funding have only compounded ...
Sam Blakeslee Large Group at BLU Jazz+

by John Chacona
Sam Blakeslee Large Group BLU Jazz+ Akron, OH December 20, 2024 In December, flowers bloomed in northeast Ohio, but climate change had nothing to do with it. The sudden blossoming was the work of Sam Blakeslee who returned to his home state to celebrate the holidays with family and friends, 18 ...
45th Annual Tri-C JazzFest

by C. Andrew Hovan
45th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Playhouse Square Cleveland, Ohio June 20-22, 2024 It has become somewhat of a reoccurring quip on social media to lament that so many so-called jazz festivals have booked acts that stray far from the jazz genre to keep these events afloat financially. Cleveland's Tri-C JazzFest has certainly ...
TRIAD with Dominick Farinacci, Christian Tamburr and Michael Ward-Bergeman at The Jazz Corner

by Gloria Krolak
TRIAD with Dominick Farinacci, Christian Tamburr and Michael Ward-Bergeman The Jazz Corner Hilton Head Island, SC May 24, 2024 It was a Memorial Day weekend to remember. Like you, we honored veterans, welcomed back the summer season, and had some fun on an extra day off. Christian Tamburr, Dominick Farinacci and ...
Madd For Tadd

By Steve Enos
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Disc 1—Central Avenue Swing; Dameron Stomp; A La Bridges; 400 Swing; Heaven’s Doors
Are Open Wide; Dig It; Keep Rockin’; Society Steps Out; My Dream; Rock and Ride; Take ‘Um.
Disc 2—Our Delight; Lady Bird; Soultrane; Cool Breeze; A Blue Time; Handy Andy (Gnid); I
Think I’ll Go Away; Smooth as the Wind; Mating Call; Super Jet; The Squirrel.
Kent Engelhardt & Stephen Enos: Madd For Tadd

by Jack Bowers
The masterworks on this second edition of Madd for Tadd are presented on two discs, one of which bears the name of one of composer/pianist Tadd Dameron's classic themes, Our Delight." Oddly, the other is named for the only non-Dameronian item on the menu, Central Avenue Swing," written by saxophonist and Dameron chronicler Kent Engelhardt who ...
44th Annual Tri-C JazzFest

by C. Andrew Hovan
44th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Playhouse Square Cleveland, Ohio June 22-24, 2023 Flanked by a spectacular outdoor chandelier, Cleveland's Playhouse Square has become the largest performing arts mecca outside of New York City. It has also been home to Tri-C JazzFest ever since the event decided to make the calendar move from ...