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Bellflower, trumpeter Jun Iida's second recording, is a cordial and even-tempered survey of nine of his original compositions and one by the late Japanese composer Nujabes, ably performed by Iida's talented sextet with spoken word by Zelda Harris on Iida's heartfelt response to warfare and its anguish, “Will They Remember?" While Iida is a technically precise soloist, his repertoire does little to separate him from the legion of proficient trumpeters in his peer group. He plays (and writes) ...

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Jun Iida: Bellflower

Read "Bellflower" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch
June 19, 2026

Jun Iida is a stylish trumpeter who has moved around a bit, in the process taking interpretive fragments of the jazz culture in each city he has inhabited. From his native Pittsburgh, to stops in Los Angeles, Seattle and New York City, he has remained connected to each through personal relationships with the local jazz communities he has embraced. An aerospace engineer who set his career aside to pursue his craft as a jazz trumpeter, Iida has along the way ...

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Steven Lugerner: In Solitude

Read "In Solitude" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
May 27, 2024

Multistrumentista assai attivo sull'asse San Francisco (dove vive) New York, con sortite verso Chicago and Los Angeles, Steve Lugerner presenta il suo terzo lavoro con lo SLUGish Ensemble, formazione di giovani talenti della West Coast. Le sette composizioni di In Solitude hanno origine nel periodo di isolamento dovuto alla pandemia, per la maggior parte si riferiscono ai nomi delle vie quotidianamente percorse in quel di Frisco e trasmettono gli umori, i sentimenti, i pensieri e le sensazioni provocate da quell'insolita ...

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SLUGish Ensemble: In Solitude

Read "In Solitude" reviewed by Robert Middleton

by Robert Middleton
October 14, 2023

This is an extremely satisfying and enjoyable album on so many levels. First of all, it is infused with lovely, dancing grooves. The opener, “Del Sur," sets the pace with a provocative, snakelike bass clarinet solo. It all falls into place like a song one has known forever. Most of the songs name-check the streets of the Miraloma neighborhood in San Francisco, where Steven Lugerner lived during the pandemic and where he came to embrace solitude. In the ...