Jazz Articles about Cary Dachtyl

About Cary Dachtyl

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Linda Dachtyl: Waves of Change

Read "Waves of Change" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 26, 2026

Linda Dachtyl is a noted jazz organist who has been recording since the release of her debut recording, Blue Bop, on Tony Monaco's Chicken Coop Records in 2006. She has remained closely associated with Monaco and his label since. Dachtyl followed her debut with the well-received For Hep Cats (2008). In 2015, she released A Late One before taking a decade off and a hard left into her love of progressive rock with Waves of Change. Waves of ...

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Linda Dachtyl: Full Steam Ahead

Read "Full Steam Ahead" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 25, 2025

Full Steam Ahead, Ohio-based organist Linda Dachtyl's fifth recording as leader of her own groups, is a largely upbeat studio session wherein she oversees a trio--guitarist Don Hales, drummer and husband Cary Dachtyl--on six of ten numbers. The threesome by itself is quite good, so much so that one might reasonably argue that no more help is needed. Nevertheless, saxophonist Mark Donavan makes it a quartet on three tracks, and joins two guests, trumpeter Ben Huntoon and ...