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Orchestrating Innovation: Brian Urra And The Evolution Of Musical Organizations

Source: All About Jazz
October 2, 2025

Step inside Wally’s Café Jazz Club on a brisk Friday night and you’ll feel the pulse—an electric current rewriting Boston’s musical DNA, one bold violin line at a time. It was 2023, and audience members squeezed through the famous red door for a taste of something new and vital: Chilean crossover jazz, surging from beneath Brian Urra’s restless bow. Urra didn’t just play—he ignited. Under his residency, the club’s legendary jam session tradition tangled with South American fire. Jazz lifers ...
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Brian Urra: A Beacon Of Chilean Jazz On The World Stage

Source: All About Jazz
September 25, 2025

Acclaimed violinist and composer Brian Urra is poised to take center stage Chile’s UNESCO-supported Jazz por la Paz festival, and a landmark Futura Studio recording, underscoring his standing as a leading figure in crossover jazz. With a career spanning 25 years and awards that include the prestigious Ravinia Bridges Composition Prize, Urra has become a central force wherever he performs, observes Chilean music critic Luciana Garcia. Urra, celebrated not only for his dynamic artistry but also for his innovative crossover ...
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Brian Eaton Mines Emotional Depths With Genre-bending 'Like A Root Out Of Dry Ground'

Source: Eatin' Records
June 27, 2025

Multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Brian Eaton has released his most personal and sonically adventurous album to date, Like a Root out of Dry Ground. The album is now available through his own Eatin’ Records imprint and can be found on all major digital platforms. This genre-defying instrumental work showcases Eaton's unique creativity and has truly taken root in the music world. Known for his fearless approach to musical boundaries, Eaton’s latest offering dives deep into the fertile territory where jazz ...
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Brian Eaton’s 'Trail of Contrition' Brings Jazz Fusion to New Frontiers

Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2025

Portland-based multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Brian Eaton has unveiled his sixth studio album, Trail of Contrition, available now on Eatin’ Records. This vibrant jazz fusion project stands at the crossroads of diverse American musical traditions, blending elements of jazz, country, bluegrass, folk, rock, rhythm and blues, gospel, and Americana into an adventurous, genre-bending sonic journey. The album’s centerpiece is Eaton’s ambitious cover of the Pat Metheny Group’s “Travels,” the Grammy-winning live track that has captivated audiences since its debut. Paying ...
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Brian Eaton's New Single Covers Pat Metheny Group’s 'Travels'

Source: Eatin' Records
June 7, 2024

Brian Eaton’snew 2-track single, Travels, features a cover of the title track from the Pat Metheny Group’s Grammy-winning live album Travels as a tribute to the late Lyle Mays. The musician/producer’s new single, which is out now on Eatin’ Records, also includes the track “Detour Ahead,” Eaton’s version of the timeless jazz standard as the B-side track. The two tracks will be included in a new album due later this year. These ballads, with their melodic lyricism, have a beautiful ...
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Brian Clemens Shines As An Accomplished Arranger In 'Beneath The Blue,' Delivering An Album Of Fun Arrangements With Stellar Musical Support

Source: All About Jazz
January 8, 2024

Brian Clemens debuts with Beneath the Blue, an album that not only showcases his prowess as a pianist but also unveils his talent as a promising arranger. From beginning to end, Brian Clemens paints a vivid musical canvas and seamlessly weaves together a tapestry of diverse jazz styles. Although it may seem rather electic to some, “Beneath the Blue" certainly contains a unifying element—an unwavering respect and deep understanding for the classic styles that have defined jazz as a beloved ...
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Trombonist-composer Brian Scarborough Releases 'We Need The Wind,' An Autobiographical Reflection On Rebuilding And Healing As An Artist

Source: Outside in Music
December 4, 2023

Brian Scarborough is a standout trombonist who has made a mark for himself both as a performer and composer. With music described as “... simultaneously stimulating and accessible, refreshingly modern and rooted in tradition,” (Chicago Jazz Magazine), Scarborough continues his trend of blending tradition with innovation as he presents his second album as a bandleader, We Need The Wind. Lauded by trombone legend Michael Dease as a recording that “beautifully capture[s]... Scarborough’s attractive tone and vibrant melodic playing,” We Need ...
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Brian Auger: Complete Oblivion Express

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
October 30, 2023

In the progressive jazz world of the early 1970s, artists were influenced by one of two primary camps—the fusion abstraction of Miles Davis's electric groups of the late 1960s or the eclectic jazz-rock bands such as the Free Spirits, Chicago, Blood, Sweat and Tears, Steely Dan and Soft Machine. Artists who came out of the Miles Davis wing included Larry Coryell and the Eleventh House, Tony Williams Lifetime, John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu, Herbie Hancock's groups and Chick Corea's Forever and ...
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Guitarist Russ Spiegel Releases 'Caribbean Blue' with Guests Brian Lynch, Tim Armacost, Hendrik Meurkens and more on RuzzTone Music

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
October 24, 2023

A world-class guitarist by anyone’s definition, California-born Russ Spiegel is also a composer, arranger, big band leader, mixing engineer, educator and much more, including a world traveler. Though not entirely, much of the music in Caribbean Blue is a tip of the hat to some of his destinations and the cultures he’s experienced, and homage to many of the genres of music he loves, and, perhaps most importantly, a reminder of just how small the world really is. Throughout his ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Brian Blade

Source: Michael Ricci
July 25, 2023

All About Jazz is celebrating Brian Blade's birthday today!

“I remember when I first read the words hanging in a frame on my grandma Rosa's wall. The serenity prayer was something I couldn't understand until almost thirty years later, but now after experiencing some peaks and valleys of life, those words ring in my ears with clarity." Brian Blade has set those words to music for his first recording as a singer, guitarist and songwriter: Mama Rosa is a revealing ...
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