John Menegon
| JOHN MENEGON: Bassist, Composer, & Educator JOHN MENEGON played and recorded with jazz tenor sax legends Dewey Redman & David “Fathead” Newman for the last ten years of their lives, and more recently with Joe Lovano and many other jazz legends. Since John’s tenure with the two Texas tenors, he has created several groups of his own, and his latest release titled I REMEMBER YOU received a four star review in Downbeat Magazine, featuring mostly his own compositions. Another of John’s most recent projects features a New York band with Frank Kimbrough (piano), Joel Frahm (sax), and Steve Williams (drums) playing the music of Charlie Haden. All of these experiences have led up to his creation of his latest group, the LOOK UP SEXTET. | |
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DOWNBEAT April 2014 (four star review!) I REMEMBER YOU (Inner Circle Music) John Menegon is in the line of George Mraz and Michael Moore; a harmonically sophisticated bassist with technical facility who swings hard when it’s called for…like the two aforementioned masters, Menegon can articulate lyrically while laying down the law on standard changes, but he has other, more contemporary components to his music, too. It’s nice to hear an album where the musicians sound like they’re having a party. Kirk Silsbee, 2014. John Menegon (bass), Frank Kimbrough (piano), Matt Wilson (drums), TIneke Postma (alto & soprano sax) 
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NEW MOON: John Menegon (bass), Teri Roiger (voice/spoken word), Jonathan Lorenz (wood flute/tenor sax), Harvey Sorgen & Bob Meyer (drums & percussion) NEW MOON SOUL ADVICE: This is a brilliant release full of rich composition and arrangement …when you have a strong well-rounded bassist like John Menegon composing, arranging, and laying down the serious low-end vibes, the music naturally flows out and around and back again seeking its root. John Trent, Chronogram. John Menegon (bass), John DiMartino (piano), Mark Dziuba (guitar), John Gunther (tenor & soprano sax), Tani Tabbal (drums & percussion) SOUL ADVICE John Menegon’s SEARCH LIGHT is witty, atmospheric, and thoroughly engaging from one end to the other. On Search Light, John Menegon shows, without self-indulgence, that the bass can define the character of an ensemble as clearly and fully as any other instrument. The entire project has a surefootedness, a quiet, elegant, muscularity that radiates from Mr. Menegon’s own playing, and that is immediately apparent and compelling. The band is made up entirely of accomplished players, the best known being, in fact, saxophonist Dewey Redman, who is, once again, brilliant, & wonderful._ Steven Robinson, AllAboutJazz . John Menegon (bass), Dewey Redman (tenor sax), John Gunther (tenor & soprano sax, bass clarinet, flute), Marc McLean (drums), Tani Tabbal (percussion), Teri Roiger (voice) SEARCH LIGHT Montreal Jazz Festival with Pat Metheny and Dewey Redman, performing music from Metheny’s CD 80/81. John also played at the Festival with the Dewey Redman Quartet which was acclaimed by the critics as the best performance of the entire 2005 Festival: MENEGON met the demands of the music with a combination of relaxed swing and more outward-looking freedom. His solos were the perfect confluence of rhythmic invention and melodic conception. John Kelman, AllAboutJazz-New York The Paradiso Cafe, Ottawa, Canada with John Abercrombie: Menegon, best-known for his work with Dewey Redman and David ‘Fathead’ Newman, was the biggest surprise of the evening. With a robust tone that supported deep, resonant low notes as much as it did lither excursions in the instrument’s upper register, Menegon created both a pliant and unshakable foundation, and an equal extemporaneous partner who, as much as anyone else in the quartet, pushed and pulled the music to new and unexpected places. |
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