Dwayne Dolphin

Dwayne Dolphin: Let the Music Play

Read "Let the Music Play" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 3, 2026

Bassist Dwayne Dolphin, less than happy with the jazz he was hearing in person or on the radio, set out to simply Let the Music Play on an album whose happy vibe, he hoped, would rekindle “the spirit of jazz" that he remembered growing up with in his native Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While “happy" is an intuitive concept that rests in the ears of the beholder, there is no doubt that nearly every theme on Dolphin's latest album swings.

Radio & Podcasts

Miki Yamanaka, Donald Vega, Dwayne Dolphin, Jalen Baker and more

by Benjamin Boddie
September 24, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Miki Yamanaka, Stefon Harris & Blackout, Paul Yonemura, Amber Weekes, Jeremy Monteiro Organ Quartet, Steve Rawlins, Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band, Nicoleyvette, Joyce E Tutty Moreno & Adrian Young, Mike Jones, Donald Vega, Skinny Hightower, Zaccai Curtis, Kay Kostopoulos, Sullivan Fortner, Jun Iida, Andrew Kim, Jim Rotondi & Dena DeRose, Brothers--Nevala--Aucoin, Alternative Guitar Summit, Dwayne Dolphin, Ulysses Owens Jr. & Generation Y, Sir Roland Hanna, Sounds Of April & Randall, Kelly Green, Enoch Smith ...

Album Review

Deanna Witkowski: Force of Nature

Read "Force of Nature" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
April 23, 2022

Pianist Deanna Witkowski has been studying the life and work of pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams for twenty years. This has resulted in her writing a biography of the artist, Mary Lou Williams; Music For The Soul (Liturgical Press, 2021) and making this companion album of her interpretations of Williams' music. Working in a trio format with occasional trumpet from Clay Jenkins, Witkowski covers all phases of Williams' musical career, her time writing for Andy Kirk in ...

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Wide Open Jazz and Beyond

Bassist Dwayne Dolphin

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

The number of fantastic improvising musicians not living in the Big Apple has got to be enormous. There must be tens of thousands of unknown creative musicians from Minneapolis to Albany and from Dresden to Osaka living a passionate jazz life struggling to get gigs in their local clubs and recording CD's to sell to their friends and neighbors. Whether hating the idea of living in NYC, fearing the competition or just not having enough bread to survive there, they ...

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Album Review

Herbie Mann & Phil Woods: Beyond Brooklyn

Read "Beyond Brooklyn" reviewed by George Kanzler

by George Kanzler
October 15, 2004

Herbie Mann and Phil Woods met when they were two barely adult beboppers jamming together at a joint called Tony's Bar on Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn in 1951. A couple years later, Woods would play on Mann's Yardbird Suite LP. They finally shared the front line on an album again with this CD, the last Mann made before he died on July 2, 2003.Beyond Brooklyn is a fine envoi to Mann's career, featuring the flutist in many of ...