He has won a number of screenwriting awards including the Jack Oakie Comedy Fellowship, the Gil Cates Screenwriting Award and the Jack Nicholson Award. He also performed regularly as a stand-up comedian at Gotham Comedy Club, Catch A Rising Star and Stand-up NY and worked with comedy legend Danny Simon in L.A. Originally from New York City (that’s what they call N’ern New Jersey in New Jersey) sort of, he wrote seven produced plays for off and off-off Broadway. The lead character, George Donato, is put to the test when the death of a recent dance patron locks him in a struggle to navigate while his moral compass batteries are low.īesides his stint driving LA escorts, an occupation in which Brad Pitt preceded him, Greg D’Alessandro has worn many hats over the years.
#GREG DALESANDRE JOTSPOT DRIVER#
THE DRIVER is an irreverent, non-PG-13 summer getaway that puts the reader in the shoes of an unlikely protagonist, as he awkwardly navigates the desires of Hollywood’s glitterati and befriends a coterie of beautiful but idiosyncratic dancers.
#GREG DALESANDRE JOTSPOT SERIES#
It is the debut novel of writer/comedian Greg D’Alessandro, who in addition to his felonious Hollywood loitering – has mesmerized mainland Chinese children in 40+ episodes of Zodiac Island, an animated/live action kids TV series he wrote and produced in a language he doesn’t know.
The resulting album "Kozmik Bazaar" starts with a reference to Ornette COLEMAN before turning more and more into a psychedelic trip that gpes way beyond the "jazz idiom".THE DRIVER is a quirky comic novel centered on the author’s real-life escapades escorting “dancers” as they make their nocturnal rounds in his faded Cadillac.
In november 2018, KONSTRUKT (who themselves can look back on a long list of class A collaborators like JOE McPHEE, WILLIAM PARKER, AKIRA SAKATA, MARSHALL ALLEN, EVAN PARKER, THURSTON MOORE or ALEXANDER HAWKINS) met VANDERMARK in their homebase ISTANBUL for a recording session – a match made in heaven that all musicians involved are extremely happy with. VANDERMARK's enduring exploration and development of new paths in (free) jazz and improvisation not only made him a key figure of the vivid Chicago scene (since the days of AACM a hotspot for musical creativity), but also gained the him the reputated MAC ARTHUR FELLOWSHIP in 1999. With various groups like NRG ENSEMBLE, SPACEWAYS INC., THE VANDERMARK 5, MADE TO BREAK and his latest project MARKER or the PETER BRÖTZMANN CHICAGO TENTET (to name just a few) and various spontaneous collaborations the saxophone / clarinet player has created an impressive catalogue and performed / recorded with the who-is-who of today's jazz / improv scene: PAAL NILSSEN-LOVE, HAMID DRAKE, FRED ANDERSON, PAUL LYTTON, JOE MORRIS THE EX, AXEL DÖRNER, MATS GUSTAFSSON, JOE MCPHEE, ZU, PETER BRÖTZMANN, PAUL LOVENS, LASSE MARHAUG, YAKUZA, KEVIN DRUMM, and many more.
#GREG DALESANDRE JOTSPOT FREE#
Turkish free jazzers KONSTRUKT continue their series of exciting collaborations with KEN VANDERMARK, one of the key figures of Chicago's vivid jazz scene.Īfter 2 critically acclaimed albums with the Japanese avantgarde / noise icon KEIJI HAINO, KONSTRUKT return with a new inspiring collaborative mind: KEN VANDERMARK, who for three decades now has been a highly prolific musician in contemporary jazz and free
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