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David Sneider: Introducing David Sneider

Read "Introducing David Sneider" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 5, 2025

What better way to introduce young trumpeter David Sneider than with one of his half-dozen buoyant new compositions, “Marvelous-Lee," the opening number on Sneider's congenial debut recording. That delightful salute to fellow trumpeter Lee Morgan also introduces one of Sneider's two front-line partners, tenor saxophonist Jacob Chung, and the ensemble's able rhythm section: pianist Tyler Henderson, bassist Joey Ranieri and drummer Willie Bowman. Sneider, who placed first in the 2021 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Competition, is ...

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Emma Hedrick: Newcomer

Read "Newcomer" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
August 31, 2025

In the competitive world of young jazz vocalists, Emma Hedrick stands out as an artist who both respects tradition and offers a distinctive personal voice. On her confident debut album Newcomer, she channels seven years of lived experiences into 10 original compositions that serve as a musical memoir of that period, while never losing sight of her influences, namely Duke Ellington for his sense of orchestral colour, and Ella Fitzgerald for her impeccable phrasing. Accompanied by a group ...

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Emma Hedrick: Newcomer

Read "Newcomer" reviewed by Kyle Simpler

by Kyle Simpler
August 25, 2025

As long as there are songs, there will be singers to sing them, but there is a slight difference between a singer and a vocalist. Singers, no matter how talented, tend to remain in the foreground with the band in support. A vocalist, however, uses the voice as an instrument, becoming an integral part of the ensemble. Emma Hedrick fits that definition completely, and with her debut album Newcomer, she arrives with a voice honed through years of training and ...

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John Sneider: The Scrapper

Read "The Scrapper" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 18, 2020

If you expected a trumpeter whose nickname is “Scrapper" to come out swinging on his first album as leader in twenty years, give yourself a gold star and a hearty pat on the back. That is precisely the modus operandi on The Scrapper, wherein New York-based John Sneider leads a first-rate quintet through its paces on what in many respects seems like a homecoming, as everyone save tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm was present and accounted for on Sneider's earlier recording ...