Hot Summer Nights looked like an agreeable package for a nine-stop tour of outdoor facilities and casinos of the West and upper Midwest. The music was mostly celebratory, sprinkled with some familiar ...

If Fountain of Youth isn't the zenith of The Rippingtons featuring Russ Freeman it is difficult to imagine what would be. You can't get much more Rippingtons featuring Russ Freeman than a Rippingtons ...

Musicians don’t really become members of the Rippingtons. It’s more like they serve time there. The institution is still run by its founder and principal architect, Russ Freeman, who recruited the ...

Of the many incarnations of Russ Freeman's The Rippingtons, the current version is one of the strongest, with the players actually cohering as a band and not simply sidemen in Freeman's long-running ...

Guitarist and bandleader Russ Freeman laughed as he considered the idea of an identifiable sound for his jazz group, the Rippingtons. “I remember a huge, longtime fan basically told me, ‘I can tell it ...

Contemporary jazz musicians The Rippingtons are set to perform at Infinity Music Hall in Hartford on Thursday, Oct. 13. Formed in 1986 by guitarist and band leader Russ Freeman, their career has ...

Longtime fans of The Rippingtons are likely to react, on first listening to the group’s 25th anniversary release, with “Wow!” or “What?” Because this group, noted for smooth jazz, breaks new ground ...

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