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Kevin Winard

Ever since picking up his first pair of drumsticks at age ten, Drummer/Percussionist Kevin Winard has been fascinated with music—all types of music. Being raised in a musical family, he was introduced to all the greats, from Count Basie to James Brown. Growing up in Santa Barbara, CA he studied drums with Tony Cappiello who was then a student of legendary teacher Freddie Gruber. At the age of 17 Kevin recorded his first album with the Matt Catingub Big Band featuring the legendary jazz singer Mavis Rivers. Over the next seven years he went on to record another five albums with this highly acclaimed Los Angeles based big band.

Heatin' Up

By John Basile

Label: Stringtime Jazz
Released: 2024
Track listing: Under The Influence; For All We Know; Girl Talk; See Saw; Moon And Sand; Never Will I Marry; Summer's Dawn; Like A Lover; Tear It Down; Countenance.

Lotta Livin'

By Betty Bryant

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea; Put a Lid on It; Baby, Baby All the Time; Blues to Get Started; Chicken Wings; Stormy Monday; Katydid; The Very Thought of You; A Lot of Livin’ to Do.

Moon And Sand

March 11, 2024

Album: Heatin' Up
By John Basile
Label: Stringtime Jazz
Released: 2024
Duration: 4:04

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, ...

Blooz

By Grant Geissman

Label: MESA/Bluemoon
Released: 2022
Track listing: Preach; Side Hustle; Carlos En Siete; Time Enough At Last; Fat Back; Rage Cage; Robben's Hood; One G and Two J's; Stranger Danger; Whitewalls and Big Fins; This and That; Sorry Not Sorry.

Late Bloomin' Jazzman

Label: Cafe Pacific Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: It Ain't Necessarily So; Don't Be Blue; When All The Light in The Sign Worked; Late Bloomin Jazzman; In Another Way; Boss Nova Days; Old Devil Moon; I Always Had A Thing For You; Before You Leave; Old Enough; Marlena's Memories; If Gershwin Had Lived.

Sweet Invitation

Label: Cafe Pacific Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Don'cha Go 'Way Mad; Falling In Love With Love; Here's That Rainy Day; I Got Lost In His Arms; Invitation; I'm Just Foolin' Myself; What A Way To Go; When October Goes; Why Try To Change Me Now.

Day by Day

Label: Self-Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Day By Day; I'm Walking; It Had to Be You; More; Time After Time; It's Only A Paper Moon; Sway; How Come You Do Me Like You Do; L.O.V.E; This Guy's in Love With You; Come By Me; All The Way.

July 2022: Love Of The Tiger

by C. Michael Bailey
July 15, 2022

Dida Pelled Love Of The Tiger Self Produced 2022 Jazz singing is seeing an uptick of artists stepping out of their “traditional" roles into dramatically different vocal genres altogether. Mainstream-to-progressive Kristina Koller, who debuted in 2017 with the youthful and forward-thinking Perception (Self Produced) followed that effort with the hard-left ...