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John Alvey
Nashville born drummer John Alvey has been a regular of the Nashville jazz scene for almost two decades. He can be found playing in different musical incarnations in Nashville or on the road. John has worked with Joel Frahm, Rahsaan Barber, Roland Barber, Rod McGaha, Don Aliquo, and he has performed alongside Gregory Tardy, Brian Lynch Jeff Coffin, Bob McChesney, and Jason Marshall.
Outside of jazz, in Nashville’s rich country and roots music scene, John has recorded and/or performed with Taj Mahal, Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley, Sierra Hull, Shannon Labrie, and Vince Gill, having worked in musical fields as diverse as recording drums with string quartets, to playing shows in both historic and modern rooms: The Ryman Auditorium, The Grand Ole Opry, The Bluebird Cafe, The Station Inn, Rudy's Jazz Room, and The Nashville Jazz Workshop
Loft Glow
By John Alvey
Label: Jazz Music City
Released: 2024
Track listing: Azure; Winslow Nocturne; Baby Man; Terminal 1; June 23; Blues for D.P.
Rahsaan Barber: Six Words
by Chris May
Six Words is saxophonist Rahsaan Barber's fourth album on his Nashville-based label Jazz Music City, and the first to be conceived as a suite. The titular six words are something Wynton Marsalis said in a conversation with Barber: “There is power in this music." With that thought in mind, Barber composed a series of pieces focused ...
Emmet Cohen, John Alvey, Gunhild Carling & Chad Edwards
by Joe Dimino
We begin the 868th Episode with NASA scientist by day and jazz cat by night, pianist Chad Edwards and music from his new album Wyoming Roads. From there, we hear from Doug Macdonald, Emmet Cohen, John Alley and Russell Haight along with Gunhild Carling's Big Band and music from her 2024 release Jazz is my Lifestyle. ...
John Alvey: Loft Glow
by Chris May
Such is the proliferation of albums which in the 2020s are taking jazz in new and exciting directions--see AAJ's Best Jazz Albums of 2024: All-Star Break Edition round-up here--that it is easy to pass over albums which have their feet firmly planted in the tradition, and which show no ambition to redefine it, but which are ...
Nashville Drummer John Alvey Makes His Leadership Debut With 'Loft Glow,' Set For August 23 Release On Jazz Music City Records
Drummer John Alvey announces his formidable presence to the jazz world with the August 23 release of Loft Glow on Jazz Music City Records. Alvey’s recording debut presents a remarkably assured, but also risk-taking set of straight-ahead post-bop jazz, joined by a killer sextet of stalwarts from the increasingly hot Nashville jazz scene: trombonist Roland Barber, ...
