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Mayra Casales

Monika Herzig: Both Sides of Joni with Janiece Jaffe

by Jane Kozhevnikova
June 1, 2023

It is always challenging to create an album based on songs by someone as great as Joni Mitchell. Monika Herzig, pianist and composer, went for this challenge inspired by vocalist Janiece Jaffe. Although they recorded the project together, Jaffe passed away unexpectedly after heart surgery in November 2022. Shocked and devastated by the passing ...

Baker's Circle

By Dave Stryker

Label: Strikezone Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Tough; El Camino; Dreamsong; Everything I Love; Rush Hour; Superstar; Baker’s Circle; Inner City Blues; Love Dance; Trouble (No. 2).

Eternal Dance

March 16, 2021

Album: Eternal Dance
By Monika Herzig
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 7:03

Bubbles

March 15, 2021

Album: Sheroes
By Monika Herzig
Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2018
Duration: 7:54

Dave Stryker: Baker's Circle

by Jack Bowers
February 11, 2021

On Baker's Circle, guitarist Dave Stryker revisits a format in which he is quite comfortable: an organ-driven rhythm ensemble whose emphasis is on hard-nosed contemporary swing. There is, however, a refreshing exclamation mark this time around in the person of able-bodied tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, and one more fringe benefit (on three tracks): percussionist Mayra ...

Eternal Dance

By Monika Herzig

Label: Savant Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: We Are the Champions; Eternal Dance; Dear Geri; Rabbit; Fly High; We Can Be (S)Heroes; Fall in Reading; Seas of Change; Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child; Up in the Sky; Memories of Petra; Hymn for Justice and Understanding (Bonus Track).

Dave Stryker: Eight Track III

by C. Andrew Hovan
July 2, 2019

Attuned to the idea that you can never get too much of a good thing, guitarist Dave Stryker has forged sequels to some of his most dynamic projects. From his Steeplechase cannon there are the four volumes of Blue to the Bone and a pair of releases devoted to the electric side of Miles Davis. So ...

Charlie Apicella: Groove Machine

by Don Phipps
June 17, 2019

On Groove Machine, Charlie Apicalla & Iron City serves up a gumbo of styles that run from New Orleans blues and Chicago funk to Motown and New York bop. The combination makes for a “groovy" listening experience—road music that will keep the head nodding and the mind trucking. Apicella penned five of the eight numbers on ...

Dave Stryker: Eight Track III

by Dan Bilawsky
April 30, 2019

If an idea works, you might as well ride it to its logical conclusion. Following vibraphonist Stefon Harris' advice along those lines in this context, guitarist Dave Stryker completes his Eight Track odyssey with the delivery of the third volume of jazz takes on '70s radio staples. Harris, after having passed the mallets off to fellow ...