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Bruce Harris

Born: September 5, 1979

Born and raised in the Bronx, NY, trumpeter Bruce Harris has earned a reputation as one of the most important and emerging voices in jazz today. Harris’s love for music began in his home where the sounds of his grandfather’s alto saxophone and New York's storied music traditions of bebop and hip-hop consumed him. Inspired by acclaimed director Spike Lee’s “Mo Better Blues,” Harris became enamored with the trumpet and at the age of 13 his musical journey started. Heavily influenced by Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown and Dizzy Gillespie, Harris performed in the “Essentially Ellington” jazz band competition as a high school junior, earning the opportunity to play alongside famed trumpeter and jazz historian, Wynton Marsalis

Introducing Trumpeter Kellin Hanas

by Sanford Josephson
January 2, 2024

This article previously appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. As a four-year-old, growing up in Wheaton, IL, Kellin Hanas was a fan of the TV show, The Wiggles. “There were four Australian guys in colorful shirts, and they would sing songs," she recalled. “In one of their shows, they brought out this guy with a ...

Earotica

By John Lang

Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Poetry in Commotion; January; Piano Intro; In My Fallitude; Flotando; Blues for Faddis; Sight Unseen; Payable in Hats; Schoolin’; The St. Vitus Dance; So You Say; Trepidation.

John Lang: Earotica

by Jack Bowers
December 13, 2023

There's something special about a nonet: small enough to have its own personality, yet large enough to sound at times akin to a full-size big band. Bassist John Lang leads a first-class nonet on Earotica, his fourth album as leader. Having given Lang's last disc a rather lukewarm appraisal almost two years ago, ...

Unexpected Beauty

By Eric Mullins

Label: self released
Released: 2022
Track listing: Hindsight JFK to ACC I'll Always Wait The Grey Matter I Had You In Mind The Bigot Psalm 33 Tuesday Mood Bird of Spring Imported Ivory

T.S. Monk, Grant Stewart & Theo Croker

by Joe Dimino
August 14, 2022

Innovative trumpeter Theo Croker begins the 764th Episode of Neon Jazz with a song off his album Love Quantum. The theme of the hour is modern jazz released in 2022. We also hear new material from T.S. Monk off his first live album and feature Dan Olivo, Steve Hudson, Tim Lin and Steve Knight. Listen in ...

Early Blue Evening

By Andy Farber

Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2021
Track listing: Don’t Tell Me What to Do; Feet and Frames; The Holidaymakers; Aircheck; Early Blue Evening; Fanfare on Fairfax; Cork Grease and Valve Oil; Portrait of Joe Temperley; Symphony for Doctor “T”; Theme from The Odd Couple; How Am I to Know?

Freedom Suite Ensuite

By Clovis Nicolas

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: The 5:30PM Dive Bar Rendezvous; Freedom Suite; Grant S. ; Nichols and Nicolas; You Or Me?; Dark and Stormy; Fine and Dandy; Speak a Gentle Word; Little Girl Blue.

Soundview

Label: Cellar Live
Released: 2021
Track listing: Soundview; Satellite; Maybe It's Hazy; If You Were Mine; Hank's Plank; You're Lucky To Me; Ellington Suite; Bird Of Red And Gold; Saucer Eyes.

Andy Farber and His Orchestra: Early Blue Evening

by Jack Bowers
October 5, 2021

Saxophonist Andy Farber's New York-based orchestra came together and cut its teeth as the onstage band for three hundred performances of After Midnight, a Broadway revue that paid tribute to Jazz Age nightclub luminaries from Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie to Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh. As one might presume from the ...