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Musician

Alejandro Avilés is a first generation Cuban-American who comes from a long lineage of musicians. In fact, Mr. Avilés' family is being considered by the Guiness Book of World Records for having the longest, most continuous family run musical group in the world. The Orquesta Hermanos Avilés was started by his great-grandfather, Manuel Avilés, in 1882 in Holguin, Cuba, and is remarkably still in existence today. Based in NYC, Alejandro Avilés works as an adjunct professor at Hofstra University and Hunter College teaching saxophone and jazz improvisation while performing as a versatile musician in genres ranging from straight ahead jazz, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music, to Broadway

Album

Handmade

By Emilio Solla

Label: Club Del Discos
Released: 2026
Track listing: Suite de Los Abrazos, III-Bodegon Canibal; Joni Mitchell; Suite de Los Abrazos, I-Milonga Mutante; Para el Agua; Suite de Los Abrazos, II-The Loss; Miles Tango; Bird Song; La Carta; De Viento y de Sal.

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Oracles

By Helen Sung Big Band

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Convergence; Samba da Gumz; Positively C.T.; Diana; Wayne's World; Mr. Virtuoso; R.J.; A Little Bird Watchin'; Pianism: I. Barry Harris, II. Kenny Barron, III: Herbie Hancock; Peace.

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Reunion

By Chris Parker

Label: Circle 9
Released: 2026
Track listing: Emmy’s Shuffle; Say It Again; Just a Thought; Stages; Been This Way Before; Left at Bingen; Reunion; Stand Back; Boonchaka; Hymn; To You (for Teresia); One for CB.

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Bite Your Tongue

By Mike Rubenstein

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: The Congregation; Bite Your Tongue; Go Figure; My Foolish Heart; It’s Been a Long, Long Time; Strasbourg/St. Denis; The Downside of Up; Night and Day; Blues for Adrian.

Article: Album Review

Emilio Solla and La Inestable de Brooklyn: Handmade

Read "Handmade" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
July 15, 2026

As the power of artificial intelligence (AI) grows exponentially, it has begun to permeate even the highest expressions of our humanity. AI-generated art of many kinds--literary, visual, and musical--appears on screens large and small daily. Handmade, a gorgeous double album by New York-based Argentinian pianist and composer Emilio Solla, featuring his nonet Inestable de Brooklyn, seeks ...

Article: Inside the Songs

Emilio Solla y La Inestable de Brooklyn: Handmade

by Dean Nardi
July 7, 2026

Emilio Solla has a mischievous, playful side that often manifests itself in his music. For example, his album, Handmade (Club del Disco, 2025) was recorded with a nonet, La Inestable de Brooklyn. What does the unstable (or the instability) in the orchestra's name refer to? The compositions? The playing? Or the fact that Solla uses all ...

Article: Album Review

Chris Parker Septet: Reunion

by Jack Bowers
March 30, 2026

This is a Reunion that Chris Parker was lucky to celebrate. In August 2023, eight months after recording his fifth album as leader and while vacationing in his native Oregon, Parker suffered a serious stroke that left him (temporarily) unable to walk or use his left hand when playing the piano. Before that misfortune struck, Parker ...

Article: Album Review

The Interplay Jazz Orchestra: Bite Your Tongue

Read "Bite Your Tongue" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 22, 2026

Even though it began life as the Hofstra University Alumni Orchestra before being renamed in 2013, the Interplay Jazz Orchestra has proven time and again during the course of five splendid recordings that its noble heritage remains intact and that it bears an indomitable spirit of its own, one which affirms that it need not bow ...

Article: Interview

Emilio Solla: Uncovering Music Already There

by Dean Nardi
February 26, 2025

In the '40s, the jazz scene was dominated by bebop with its roots in swing music, formerly the purview of the big band era. Trios and quartets became the combo of choice for players such as Charlie Yardbird" Parker and Thelonious Monk, who took the harmonies of the old jazz and superimposed them on chord substitutions, ...