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Gina Benalcazar

Eleven O'Seven

By Grace Fox

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Right on Red; Gospel Interlude; The Gospel; I Just Found Out About Love; Echelon; Sterility; Stars.

Soul Conversations

By Ulysses Owens, Jr.

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Two Bass Hit; London Towne; Beardom X; Red Chair; Giant Steps; Language of Flowers; Human Nature; Girl Talk; Harlem Harlem Harlem; Soul Conversations.

Michael Dease: Bonafide

by Geannine Reid
November 21, 2018

Trombonist Michael Dease was born in Augusta, Georgia. His propensity for the arts landed him at John S. Davidson Fine Arts Magnet High School, where he studied saxophone, voice and trumpet. During his senior year, after sage advice from another Augusta, Georgia jazz mainstay, Wycliffe Gordon, Dease pointed his ambition towards the trombone, what would ultimately ...

Mica Bethea: Stage 'N Studio

by Jack Bowers
October 15, 2017

When listening to the Mica Bethea Big Band's generally admirable two-CD set, Stage 'n Studio, the first thought is, “Why hasn't anyone done this before?" That query is immediately replaced by a second thought: “Perhaps someone has and we simply overlooked it." In either case, Bethea's decision to perform (basically) the same material in a recording ...

The Mica Bethea Big Band: Stage 'N Studio

by Jerome Wilson
August 8, 2017

A young composer from Jacksonville, Florida, Mica Bethea shows an impressive command of big band writing and arranging on this set. Traces of all the usual modern large ensemble influences can be heard in his work, but he also brings his own ideas to the table and creates something fresh and energetic. This is ...