Mike Merola isn’t just another technically skilled blues and jazz guitarist based in New York City, one voice among so many. What emerges most memorably from listening to his playing in his band The City Boys Allstars is its sense of intertwined emotional honesty and naturalness. No wonder some of the best singers and musicians in the big […]
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ALBARE, GEORG BREINSCHMIDT, CITY BOYS, CRISCUOLO, SUMARI, TROPEA reviews in Highlands Magazine September 3, 2015
It’s the holidays, a simple time, a relaxing break , and you are looking for a nice record to suit the mood. But that’s no reason not to still demand quality from musicians, compositions, sound. Pleasure is not synonymous with mediocrity and PERSONAL THING by the group THE CITY BOYS ALLSTARS is sound proof of […]
WTJU – 91.1 FM – Charlottesville, VA
The City Boys All Stars were included in the New Jazz Adds page at WTJU – 91.1 FM – Charlottesville, VA for the week of 9/1/2015.
Jazz Weekly Review: Personal Thing
Here’s a fun and funky outing with a band that is horns a-plenty. A brass team of Tony Kadleck/tp, Lew Soloff/tp, Tom Malone/tb and saxes of Andy Snitzer, “Blue Lou” Marini and “Bones” Malone again front a rhythm team of Mike Merola/g, Al MacDowell/b, Rob Clores/keys, Nick Saya/dr and Daniel Sadownick/perc through a mix of […]
The future is bright for a sophisticated yet entertaining band like ‘The City Boys Allstars’ like no other …”
The core of the NYC “The City Boys Allstars”, a jazz / rock ensemble with funk, soul, blues and gospel influences, Mike Merola (guitar) – in 1988 he was the founder of the band / he is the glue group, which keeps everything together, Al MacDowell (bass) – it is the replacement of the […]
Musiczoom Review
After the success of the previous album, Blinded by the Night, a live show at The Cutting Room in New York that was widely supported by the public and critics, The City Boys Allstars went to the studio for the new album, with the same training, Thirteen musicians well known at home in the US, […]
The City Boys Allstars – Personal Thing Review on Jazz
As a mini big band The City Boys Allstars has a complicated history. At the end of the 1980’s, guitarist Mike Merola organized the band, based on the advice and support of the musician, whom he considered his teacher – the already famous trumpeter Lew Soloff. The ensemble performed quite well, until bad health forced […]
Issue 149 reviews: Improvijazzation Nation magazine
You heard it here, third. Thanks to http://rotcodzzaj.com/?page_id=5953 for our latest review. “If good ol’ get-down blues is just what you’ve been lookin’ for, you won’t be able to do without this CD…”
