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Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra: Alkebulan
by Jack Bowers
On Alkebulan, the second recording by his Washington, DC-area Jazz Orchestra, composer, arranger and trombonist Javier Nero pays loving tribute to his African heritage, as he did on the orchestra's earlier album for Outside In Music, emet (The Black Land). As before, Nero uses his considerable skills as a writer and orchestrator to share and amplify his vision of a once-thriving civilization whose framework and particulars have been swept away in the historical narrative but whose impact on the human ...
Continue ReadingGraham Breedlove Sextet: Coming Home
by Matt Merewitz
It is refreshing to know that our Armed Forces provide a safe haven in today’s hectic music world for talented musicians to perform and write music. Ample evidence of the dedication to jazz these men and women have is present on Graham Breedlove’s first CD for Summit Records, Coming Home.
A trumpet player with an exquisite tone and provocative harmonic ideas, Graham Breedlove came out of an area rich in jazz heritage. Growing up in Louisiana, Breedlove ...
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