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Joel Springer was raised in Bloomington, Indiana and moved to Boston in 1984 to study with master saxophone teacher Joe Allard. That same year he began a three-year adventure with Volo Volo, a Haitian dance band, that included touring Martinique, France, Canada,and New York, and playing many parties in Dorchester, Massachusetts.

He joined Your Neighborhood Saxophone Quartet (YNSQ) in 1989, and with that group has performed at Merkin Hall, New York (WNYC's "New Sounds Live"); Bang on a Can Festival, New York; Mellon PSFS Jazz Festival, Philadelphia; Bimhuis, Amsterdam, and other venues on four European tours; a Midwest tour; and numerous clubs & concert halls in New England. Joel recorded two CDs with YNSQ: "Plutonian Nights: The Music of Sun Ra" (Coppens, 1991) and "Wolftone" (Coppens, 1994).

Album

north

By Brian Ales

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Shutter Speed; No Poetry; International Arrivals; Always Together/Always Gone; Like Vast; Candy Color Questions; Sad Man Club

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Relentless

By Fernando Huergo

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2024
Track listing: Consciousness of Reality; Ornette; Vidalita; Panorama; La Vida Sigue; Relentless; Deluge; Modernities; Blues Sureno; The Illusion of Hope; Groove Odds.

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Fernando Huergo: Relentless

Read "Relentless" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 26, 2024

Argentine-born bassist and composer Fernando Huergo's heavy-duty Massachusetts-based big band delivers the goods on Relentless, a taut and vibrant review of oppression, discrimination, environmental challenges and other social issues, interwoven with Huergo's lively tribute to the saxophonist Ornette Coleman and a charismatic and thought-provoking survey ("La Vida Sigue") on life after the Covid-19 pandemic, with all ...

Article: Album Review

Macuco Quintet: Friendly Signs

Read "Friendly Signs" reviewed by Don Phipps

by Don Phipps
February 22, 2019

The Macuco Quartet's joyful and exuberant Friendly Signs suggests a Brazilian seaside or urban landscape where daylight tropical breezes and palm trees sway over a harbor and waves lap gently along a shore lively with music and dancing. Joel Springer, the composer of all but one of the album's 11 tunes, keeps things on ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

John Medeski, Mellotrons and A Mountain of Majoun

by Chris May
March 31, 2011

Club D'ElfElectric Moroccoland / So BelowFace Pelt Records2011 Boston-based Club D'Elf describes itself as a “Moroccan-dosed psychedelic dub and jazz collective." It is the sort of band that gives self-medication a good name, and it will reconfigure your synapses, in a good way, if you let it. ...