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Steve Johns

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Steve Johns was born Stephen Samuel Johns November 25,1960 in Boston, MA and began playing the drums at the age of nine. Mr. Johns grew up in a very musical family. His mother, Goldie Tyler Johns, was a songwriter and three of her brothers were jazz musicians. One of these brothers was the late great Jimmy “Bottoms up”Tyler, a well- known jazz saxophonist that would prove to be Steve’s biggest musical influence and inspiration. At the age of fifteen, Steve decided to pursue jazz as a life long ambition. Steve’s uncle Jimmy suggested that he should get serious and study with the great drummer and master teacher Alan Dawson

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Blue Topaz

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2024
Track listing: Hand-Me-Down Blues; Cash or Charge; Bittersweet Morning; Pedro’s Samba; One for My Baby; Little Sunflower; Rosalyn; Blue Topaz; Lately; Curioso.

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Peter Hand: Blue Topaz

Read "Blue Topaz" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Peter Hand has a hand in almost everything on Blue Topaz, playing masterful guitar, writing seven of the album's ten engaging numbers and arranging all of them. He also spliced together a pair of blue-chip ensembles for his first small-group recording after three well-received big-band albums, and invited his longtime friend--and legendary tenor saxophonist--Houston Person to ...

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Hand-Me-Down Blues

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Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2024
Duration: 6:44

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You Remind Me

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2024
Track listing: After Dark; The Cure; Nights Over Egypt ; You Remind Me; Nancy; Shrimp Fried Rice; Mr. Day; Mornin’; Takeoff; Simone; Night Flight; A Night To Remember

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Interchange

Label: Steeplechase Lookout
Released: 2023
Track listing: Interchange; Who Cares; You’re My Everything; Invitation; The Scene Is Clean; Return; Yours Is My Heart Alone; Last Embrace; Very Early.

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Standard-ized!

Label: Consolidated Artists Productions
Released: 2023
Track listing: Now’s the Time; Just in Time; Caravan; Nutville; Nature Boy; Train Shuffle; Jungle Juice; Mayreh; The Summer Knows; Summertime; Sugar; Windmills of Your Mind; Overjoyed; Now’s the Time (outro).

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David Janeway: Interchange

Read "Interchange" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Unearthing and releasing old music--even sounds sourced from decades old tapes--has become common in jazz. Pianist Bill Evans (thank you. Zev Feldman) has enjoyed something of a twenty-first-century renaissance. Pianist Fred Hersch released @ The Village Vanguard (Palmetto Records, 2018), recorded in 1997; and 2021 saw the posthumous release from pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, Hanamichi (Red Hook), ...

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Meredith d'Ambrosio: Sometime Ago

Read "Sometime Ago" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Dopo dieci anni di silenzio discografico è un gran piacere ascoltare un nuovo album della cantante di Boston, il diciassettesimo per la Sunnyside, con cui pubblica dalla metà degli anni ottanta, qualche anno dopo il suo debutto. Più che cantante Meredith preferisce definirsi “song stylist" e tale resta all'età di 81 anni, senza ...

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Eric Goletz: Standard-ized!

Read "Standard-ized!" reviewed by Jack Bowers


If variety is on your wish list, you will find a lot to like on Standard-ized!, New York-based trombonist Eric Goletz's third album in three years. Group size and makeup are seldom the same, Goletz's charts traverse new realms, there are special guests to enhance the proceedings, and Goletz even enlists a six-piece string “orchestra" on ...


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