Jazz Articles about Alex McLaughlin

Alex McLaughlin: A Brand New State

by Jack Bowers
May 14, 2025

After spending years as a performer and educator, bassist Alex McLaughlin has recorded his first album, A Brand New State, on which he leads an able quartet whose front-line spokesperson is the renowned trumpeter Jeremy Pelt. At the insistence of its initiator and producer, drummer Ulysses Owen Jr., the album comprises eight of McLaughlin's original compositions, which was either a splendid idea or an unintended misstep, depending on one's point of view. As is true of most ...