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Quinn Sternberg: Pleasant Returns

Read "Pleasant Returns" reviewed by Neil Duggan


This is album number five from bassist Quinn Sternberg. It follows on from Walking On Eggshells (Mind Beach Records, 2023). A resident of Asheville, North Carolina, as of this writing, Sternberg returned to New Orleans for the recording. He had previously worked in the city for nearly a decade and notes that “Having not seen or played with my bandmates in close to a year, I wanted to do something that captured the joy of reconnecting with old friends through ...

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Matt Booth: Sun Prints

Read "Sun Prints" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Although this is far from a debut album, Matt Booth's Sun Prints does provide an opportunity for the enterprising bassist to offer a release comprised solely of his own compositions. With the assistance of a well-assembled band behind him, Booth proves himself more than capable of meeting the challenge, with eleven engaging tunes that cover a wide swath of jazz idioms. Booth's quintet features his frequent associate Oscar Rossignoli on piano and keyboards, along with trumpeter Steve Lands, ...

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Byron Asher's Skrontch Music: Lord, when you send the rain

Read "Lord, when you send the rain" reviewed by Gareth Thompson


The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive one in American history. Seven states were affected and the political fallout saw Herbert Hoover reach the White House by 1929. The saxophonist Byron Asher believes another political action was the development of New Orleans jazz, early in the twentieth century, in direct resistance to the racism of Jim Crow Louisiana. On his rootsy reflective debut, Byron Asher's Skrontch Music (Sinking City Records, 2019), he sought to represent these twin ...

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Quinn Sternberg: Cicada Songs

Read "Cicada Songs" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


On Cicada Songs, bassist Quinn Sternberg paints a dreamy portrait of a languid summer evening at home, a visit to a comfortable front porch full of snoozing dogs, meandering cats, and the natural summer serenade of its title track. The first Cicada song is “June," Sternberg and company's collective musing about what Sternberg's beloved dog named June might dream about. “June" opens with a shimmer of cymbals, like you're passing through the gossamer curtain of sleep and are ...


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