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Featuring:
Don Capone (Drums)
NEW RELEASE
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New Release
by CAPONE Titled: SPONTANEITY
Don and new group members,
give
you some new, old Jazz
favorites and three Don Capone originals.
Hear all sample tracks
and purchase at: Go
here
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Don's Vol.1 of a 4 volume set titled: COME
IN OUT OF THE OLD
is now available for purchase. Don and the
group, give a fresh listen to some old Jazz
favorites.
Hear all sample tracks
and purchase at: Go
here
JAZZ
Trio
Vibe
is a new Tampa-based jazz group

vibraphon (Sam Koppelman)
acoustic bass (Philip Booth)
drums (Don Capone)
The
trio's mix of bebop, standards, blues and
bossas was heard live April 14, 2007 on
WMNF's Charles Vann Jazz Party with
host: Jimmy Lyons.

Denise
Moore and Then Some

From her new
"Nothing Standard" Album
Sample
Track
3:59
Heartdance
Band

Listen to a Heartdance
Sample Track
1:03
New
Directions
   
Ron, Jim, Mike and
Don.
Listen to a New Directions
Sample Track
1:46
Act 2 with Kenny Drew
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ABOUT
DON CAPONE: Don Capone is currently
appearing in the Tampa Bay area with
a variety of working groups and he is
covering the whole gamut of musical
styles. Recently he has finished recording
a Jazz CD with a group on the scene
in clubs in the Tampa area. The group,
New Directions, asked Don to join and
add his experience in both Big Band
and small group styles to their sound.
For the last two years, Don has been
performing with some of the areas great
jazz players to include John Lamb of
the Duke Ellington Band, Matt Bokulic
of the Jack Brokenshaw group and the
Mike Mc Carther group also playing with
Richard Drexler of numerous recordings
and international performance fame.
Don has been supplying percussion back
up for singers, Rose Bilal, Kim Murray,
Lori Harden and recently, Denise Moore.
Don served as music coordinator for
The Renaissance Center for the Arts
from 2002 through 2004. The Center provided
free music and art education for the
children of the surrounding neighborhood
of Tampa Heights. Don also performed
with the Renaissance Jazz Ensemble as
staff drummer. The ensemble performed
music written by the Centers director
Mr. Nick Cutro. Nick directed the ensemble
also performing piano selections with
the group which often featured the students
themselves singing and playing various
percussion instruments on stage. Various
local and nationally known players were
invited to play at the center for the
musical benefit and education of the
children and to raise funds for the
center itself.
Don has studied with some of the top
Jazz and Show drummers in the U.S. Starting
at the age of fourteen with Charley
Perry in N.Y. After serving in the Navy
and playing with the Great Lakes Training
Center Band in Illinois, Don returned
to New York City where he met and studied
with Elvin Jones and took in as many
acts as he could while working the club
scene. Don’s Jazz gigs in the Big Apple
began with Luise Brown at the Inner
Circle in midtown Manhattan and took
off from there, playing the Metropole
with the Soul Project and moving on
to The Cheetah Lounge, The Top of the
Sixes and Jilly’s with Frankie Randal,
The Copa Cabana with The Paris Brothers
Show Band, The Riviera Show Band, Mickey,
Larry and The Exciters.
In the early seventies Don began trekking
back and forth from New York City to
Las Vegas with the likes of Arthur Connolly,
Wilson Pickett, Jimmy Clanton, Bobby
Breen, Tiny Tim and Dee Clark, finally
settling in Boston to study at the Berklee
College of Music with Alan Dawson who
was introduced to Don by John Labarbara
who was then writing for and playing
with Buddy Rich’s Big Band. While in
Boston, Don teamed up with Spencer Wood
who was one of the top writers for show
bands at the time. Don’s affiliation
with Spencer got him the opportunity
to play on the A B C Wide World of Sports
background music for a Mark Spitz video
that was recorded and edited for television
in Clearwater Florida. Don finished
the seventies doing the Playboy tour
with Geri Jerome from Las Vegas.
In the eighties, Don began hitting the
road again playing the Soul Circuit
just for the experience. What an experience
it was! The Coasters, The Platters,
The James Brown Review featuring Big
Mama, The Drifters, The Four Tops, Bunny
Siegler, Dee Dee Sharp, Little Eva,
Latimore Brown, Kathy Wells, just to
mention a few. After a couple of years
and too many “One Nighters” to count;
Don returned to Tampa to continue his
drum studies with Ron Delp who was instrumental
in helping him design his new jazz techniques
and showband style, which he utilized
with Me and the Other Guys, Dan Mc Million,
Kent Lavoy, Charley Ensinosa, Dick Rivers
and many more. During his career, Don
has been influenced by every big name
or newcomer he ever met or heard. So
when you hear Don Capone play, he’s
really playing Don Capone. After a concert
at Pauls Mall in Boston, Don had a chance
to visit and talk to Buddy Rich actually
addressing how to make it as a big band
drummer. Rich told him: “Kid, watch,
listen and play your heart out.” If
you ever see Don play, you’ll see that
advice is still taken seriously.
Don is currently playing on and producing
an instructional DVD to be released
in late 2007.
CONTACT
DON CAPONE HERE
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