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Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra

by Daniel Peck
September 4, 2026

The Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra is a seventeen-piece ensemble featuring a rotating roster of world-class musicians from across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest. Known for their bold sound and adventurous programming, the group debuted in 2022 with Smash!, a studio album released on Next Level. With their most recent release Multiversal, Harvey channels the spirit of America's original large ensemble--the jazz orchestra--into a vivid, pseudo-cinematic soundscape filled with drama, intensity, and imaginative storytelling and the orchestra performs selections ...

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Chris Potter, Lee Konitz, Ben Patterson and Stephen Phillip Harvey

by Joe Dimino
May 19, 2024

We begin the 855th Episode of Neon Jazz with composer Stephen Phillip Harvey and the title track from his live album Elemental. From there, we feature new music from Win Pongsakorn, Meg Okra, Ben Patterson and Andrea Wolper. We also hear from the late Ron Miles and music from a decade-old live concert in Colorado. We say goodbye to a Kansas City vocal legend in Queen Bey and close it out with power and prestige from the late great Freddie ...

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All New Releases From Stephen Philip Harvey, Søren Lee, Noah Haidu, And More

by Bob Osborne
May 2, 2024

On this show all new releases from Stephen Philip Harvey, Søren Lee, Noah Haidu, Anthony D'Alessandro, Aleksi Glick, Tony Monaco Trio, Daniel Janke Winter Trio, Domas Žeromskas, Hill Collective, Pozak Trio, Angelica Sanchez & Chad Taylor, and Alice Coltrane. Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Stephen Philip Harvey “Tectonic Shift (Live) [feat. Dan Bruce & Thomas Schinabeck]" from Elemental (Live) (Hidden Cinema Records) 00:59 Søren Lee “Song For My Son" from Hope (Zack's Music) 09:00 Noah Haidu “Over The Rainbow" ...

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Stephen Philip Harvey: Big Band Superhero In the Making

by John Chacona
July 6, 2022

There's a passage in “Party Song," the concluding cut on the Stephen Philip Harvey Jazz Orchestra's debut recording, Smash! (Next Level, 2022) where the band claps hands, whoops and cheers over a syncopated praise-band saxophone riff. It's pure, unbridled joy and just like the exuberance implied by the exclamation point in the album's title, it's an essential element of the composer's extroverted music and personality. There's a fine indiscipline to Harvey's big band writing. Ominous horror-film riffs sit ...