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Album Review

Fernando Huergo: Relentless

Read "Relentless" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Argentine-born bassist and composer Fernando Huergo's heavy-duty Massachusetts-based big band delivers the goods on Relentless, a taut and vibrant review of oppression, discrimination, environmental challenges and other social issues, interwoven with Huergo's lively tribute to the saxophonist Ornette Coleman and a charismatic and thought-provoking survey ("La Vida Sigue") on life after the Covid-19 pandemic, with all compositions and arrangements by the leader. This is well-designed, no-holds-barred big-band jazz, delivered with verve and enthusiasm by eighteen well-prepared musicians ...

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Album Review

Michael Feinberg: Hard Times

Read "Hard Times" reviewed by Troy Dostert


Although the Covid pandemic has been devastating to the artistic community, and certainly jazz musicians are no exception, albums like Michael Feinberg's Hard Times point to the possibility of hopeful resilience. With a top-shelf bunch of colleagues and smart compositions with rhythmically crafty arrangements, the bassist's eighth release is a winner, with a plucky spirit and satisfying grooves in abundance. Feinberg pulled this band together in October 2020, and with folks like drummer Jeff “Tain" Watts and pianist ...

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Education

Trumpeter Billy Buss wins Monterey/Jimmy Lyons Scholarship to Berklee

Trumpeter Billy Buss wins Monterey/Jimmy Lyons Scholarship to Berklee

Source: All About Jazz

Berklee College of Music and the Monterey Jazz Festival names Berkeley's Billy Buss the tenth Jimmy Lyons Scholar

Presentation to be made on the Jimmy Lyons Stage, 2 pm Sunday 9/17; previous Lyons Scholar, drummer James Williams to make presentation *

Berklee College of Music and the Monterey Jazz Festival announced today that trumpeter Billy Buss of Berkeley, California, is the tenth recipient of the Jimmy Lyons Scholarship at Berklee, a major music education prize. The scholarship is named in ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Relentless

Whaling City Sound
2024

buy

Psalms and Proverbs

Blue Room Music
2024

buy

Hard Times

Fresh Sound Records
2021

buy

Resilience

Soul Cycle Music
2020

buy

Resilience

From: Resilience
By Billy Buss

WAM, BAM, ty MAAM

From: Scenes From A Dream
By Billy Buss

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