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Adam Kolker

Adam Kolker is a multi-talented performer, composer and arranger. He performed and recorded with latin-jazz artist Ray Barretto from 1994 through 2002 (with whom he received two GRAMMY nominations). He also appears in New York City with groups including the Village Vanguard Orchestra, Fred Hersch's "My Coma Dreams," the Maria Schneider Orchestra, Bruce Barth, Judi Silvano, Lucia Pulido, and his own groups with John Abercombie and Billy Hart. He has recorded with Bruce Barth, John Hébert, Marty Ehrlich, The Story, Bobby Previte, Gunther Schuller, Bruce Saunders, Frank Carlberg, among others. Adam is also a member of the Brooklyn Jazz Underground, was a full time Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst from 1999-2008 and currently teaches at Kutztown University and Prinz Claus Conservatory in the Netherlands. Kolker’s first release as a leader, “Crazybird”, on A Records with Tim Hagans, Kevin Hays, Jeff Ballard and Doug Weiss, reached the Top Ten on the CMJ Charts, and received critical acclaim from such publications as Jazz Times, JazzIz and the Village Voice. Other CDs include “Sultanic Verses” (Satchmo Jazz Records) with Bruce Barth, Billy Hart, Ray Barretto and John Hébert, “Change Of Time” (OmniTone Records) a trio with Russ Lossing and John Hébert, performing music based on music by Bela Bartok which received 4 1/2 stars in Downbeat Magazine and was voted one of the Top CD's of the Decade. “Meditacions” (Satchmo Jazz Records) co-led with Catalan drummer Xavi Maureta, received the award for "Best Modern Jazz CD" from the Catalan Jazz Society in 2002, and Kolker’s "Flag Day," (Sunnyside) with John Abercrombie, John Hébert and Paul Motian, received critical acclaim from the New York Times, Jazz Times, Stereophile, and Downbeat. In May 2011, Kolker released “Reflections” (Sunnyside), with John Abercrombie, John Hébert, Russ Lossing, Billy Mintz, Judi Silvano and Kay Matsukawa

Unannounced

By Tony Lepore

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Uptown in the Lincoln; Azara; Morning Railyard; Sparito; Therion and the Dove; Axios

Cinematic Jazz Conjunctio Debut Album 'Unannounced' — Live At Silvana on June 8

June 2, 2026

New York drummer, composer, and theatre artist Tony Lepore grew up in New York City, where jazz was already in the family—his grandfather played guitar in Harlem during the Swing Era. For the next twenty-five years, Lepore built a career in the theatre as a lighting designer, sound designer, stage manager, and composer, working across New ...

Dream Suites vol. 1

By Samo Salamon

Label: Samo Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Drums Suite; Djembe Suite; Freedom March Suite.

Russ Lossing: Proximity Alert

by Mark Corroto
October 27, 2025

Is Russ Lossing's Proximity Alert more like football or baseball? The analogy works like this: Baseball is fathers and sons tossing a ball in the backyard, measured and casual; Football is a scrimmage, brothers running, grappling and tackling in the same yard. Throughout his career, Lossing has captained several exceptional trios. With bassist Ed ...

Night City

By Neal Kirkwood

Label: Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
Released: 2024

Elegy for Thelonious

By Frank Carlberg

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Spooky Rift We Pat; Out of Steam; Wanting More; Elegy for Thelonious; Scallop’s Scallop; Wrinkle on Trinkle; Brake Tune.

Los Trabajos Y Las Noches

By Roxana Amed

Label: Sony Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: Pido el silencio; Antes; Moradas; Fronteras inútiles; Signos; Los trabajos y las noches; Crepúsculo; Verde paraíso; Nombrarte; Amantes; Del otro lado.

This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters

By Mike Holober

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Lay of the Land; On This Rock; Dirt Lovers Almanac; Another Summer; Tides; Another Summer Epilogue; Virginia; Dear Virginia; Domes; Refuge; Tower Pulse; Erosion; Three Words for Snow; Boundary Waters; Noetry; Skywoman Falling; This Rock We're On.

Mike Holober & the Gotham City Orchestra: This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters

by Angelo Leonardi
November 11, 2024

Dopo gli ultimi superlativi album orchestrali (Balancing Act, Palmetto 2015 e Hiding Out, Zoho 2019) la nuova incisione di Mike Holober con la Gotham Jazz Orchestra non dovrebbe stupirci, eppure questo doppio album ci ha nuovamente colpito. L'aggiunta di Chris Potter, John Patitucci, Nir Felder e della cantante brasiliana Jamile Staevie Ayres all'orchestra rende ...