Jazz Articles about Graham Breedlove

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Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra: Alkebulan

by Jack Bowers
March 11, 2026

On Alkebulan, the second recording by his Washington, DC-area Jazz Orchestra, composer, arranger and trombonist Javier Nero pays loving tribute to his African heritage, as he did on the orchestra's earlier album for Outside In Music, emet (The Black Land). As before, Nero uses his considerable skills as a writer and orchestrator to share and amplify his vision of a once-thriving civilization whose framework and particulars have been swept away in the historical narrative but whose impact on the human ...

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Graham Breedlove Sextet: Coming Home

by Matt Merewitz
October 8, 2003

It is refreshing to know that our Armed Forces provide a safe haven in today’s hectic music world for talented musicians to perform and write music. Ample evidence of the dedication to jazz these men and women have is present on Graham Breedlove’s first CD for Summit Records, Coming Home.

A trumpet player with an exquisite tone and provocative harmonic ideas, Graham Breedlove came out of an area rich in jazz heritage. Growing up in Louisiana, Breedlove ...