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James Weidman

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Pianist James Weidman is indisputably an essential addition to whatever bandstand he graces. A partial list of Weidman’s affiliations is staggering in depth & breadth: Max Roach, Woody Herman, Archie Shepp, James Moody, Greg Osby, Bobby Hutcherson, Slide Hampton, Jay Hoggard, Marvin “Smitty” Smith, Gloria Lynne, Dakota Staton, MBase Collective, Cassandra Wilson, TK Blue (co-leader of Taja), Abbey Lincoln, Ruth Naomi Floyd (Producer), Kevin Mahogany (Music Director), Joe Lovano, Marty Ehrlich and Ray Anderson. That list includes several NEA Jazz Masters, musical trailblazers, and great singers; relationships requiring both the skilled touch of an adept soloist as well as superior accompaniment expertise

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Blue Topaz

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2024
Track listing: Hand-Me-Down Blues; Cash or Charge; Bittersweet Morning; Pedro’s Samba; One for My Baby; Little Sunflower; Rosalyn; Blue Topaz; Lately; Curioso.

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Article: Album Review

Peter Hand: Blue Topaz

Read "Blue Topaz" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Peter Hand has a hand in almost everything on Blue Topaz, playing masterful guitar, writing seven of the album's ten engaging numbers and arranging all of them. He also spliced together a pair of blue-chip ensembles for his first small-group recording after three well-received big-band albums, and invited his longtime friend--and legendary tenor saxophonist--Houston Person to ...

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Hand-Me-Down Blues

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Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2024
Duration: 6:44

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Raise Your Spirit Consciousness

Label: JHVM
Released: 2023
Track listing: Holy Spirit Consciousness; Peace to You My Children; I Want Love, I Don't Want Hate; Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing; Bird of Beauty;Toe Dance for a Baby; In the Beginning / Praise God; Worship God in Spirt, Truth, and Love; Deluge; Both Feet on the Ground; A Child Is Born; Primordial Aqua Mist,

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T.K. Blue: The Tide of Love

Read "The Tide of Love" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


T.K. Blue is an artist who is proficient on both the alto saxophone and flute; he has released a striking album entitled The Tide of Love that offers a diverse and engaging musical journey through various genres of the jazz spectrum. In this session, he is accompanied by several superb musicians, including Grammy-nominated Stefon Harris on ...

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Jay Hoggard: Raise Your Spirit Consciousness

Read "Raise Your Spirit Consciousness" reviewed by La-Faithia White


American jazz vibraphonist and composer Jay Hoggard is raising the spiritual consciousness with songs such as “Holy Spirit Consciousness," “Peace To You My Children," “Worship God in Spirit" and “Truth and Love" on Raise Your Spirit Consciousness Raise Your Spirit Consciousness has eight original compositions from Hoggard as well as recreations of original classics ...

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The New Young Lions of Jazz

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: My Favorite Things, Dance of the Nile, Ask Me Now, What’s Your Choice; Rolls Royce?, The Kicker, King Porter Stomp, Isotope, Brother Braden, Pink Elephant Magic, Street Culture, Over The Rainbow

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Players

Label: Open Mic Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: There Are Thorns

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It​’​s About Love

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Mood Indigo, A Summer Affair, My Cherie Amour, My Funny Valentine, Round Midnight, It’s Really All About Love, The More I See You, Interlude, Passionata, Ask Me Now, I Want To Talk About You, A Perfect Couple


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