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Omar Thomas, Mark Masters, Billy Strayhorn

By David Brown | The Jazz Continuum
June 19, 2025
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This week showcases large band music from composer/arrangers Omar Thomas, Gerry Mulligan and Maria Schneider. Bandleader Mark Masters is next with a pair of new albums. With Sam Rivers 100, Masters honors the centenary of the avant-garde jazz pioneer, while on Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! Masters explores the music of spiritual jazz legend Billy Harper. Bird themes will follow with the David Murray Quartet's new release Birdy Serenade and Rahsaan Roland Kirk 's classic "Serenade to Cuckoo." Next is a showcase of releases from the revived Strata-East Records with a vast reissue program specializing in avant-garde and post-bop jazz of the 1970s. Featured artists will be saxophonist Charlie Rouse, pianist Stanley Cowell, bassist Cecil McBee and The Heath Brothers. The show will conclude with a set of songs co-written by Duke Ellington's arranger Billy Strayhorn to take advantage of the romanticism of saxophonist Johnny Hodges sound.

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