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Alex Frank

He may only be in his 20’s, but Alex Frank has already established himself as a first-call bassist for film (Jersey Boys, Black Nativity), television (You’re The Worst, Modern Family, Friends With Better Lives), and records (Bruce Forman, Dave Damiani). Along with pianist Peter Smith and guitarist John Storie, Alex recently founded the group Too Marvelous For Words, a tribute to the original Nat King Cole trio, which has begun touring nationally. Alex has also become an in-demand accompanist for jazz singers Landau Eugene Murphy, Jr. (America’s Got Talent winner, 2011), Renee Olstead (TV’s Still Standing, The Secret Life of the American Teenager), Spencer Day, Jackie Ryan, Erin Boheme, Sara Gazarek, Jane Monheit, James Tormé, Melissa Morgan, and film icon Molly Ringwald

Mike Jones With Strings

By Mike Jones

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Lady Be Good; Gone With The Wind; Autumn Leaves; Kelly's Blues; Destination Moon; Deed I Do; The Very Thought of You; Exactly Like You.

Lady Be Good

November 30, 2026

Album: Mike Jones With Strings
By Mike Jones
Label: Capri Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 7:17

Mike Jones: Mike Jones With Strings

by Jack Bowers
September 1, 2026

Pianist Mike Jones' With Strings does not denote a sizable orchestral design but a piano-jazz trio in which a guitar replaces the drums, a format introduced in the 1930s by Nat King Cole's peerless trio and favored for years by the legendary Canadian pianist Oscar Peterson with Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel or Joe Pass on guitar. ...

Mike Jones: Mike Jones With Strings

by Pierre Giroux
August 21, 2026

There is something refreshingly honest about a drummerless trio. Without the cushion of cymbals and snare to drive the pulse, every note matters a little more. This format dates back to the Nat King Cole Trio in the 1930s and to the Oscar Peterson-celebrated groups of the 1950s, in which the guitar and bass took responsibility ...

Alex Frank: Jeff Goldblum's Bassist on Swing and the Ray Brown Tradition

by Mike Jones
August 18, 2026

Alex Frank grew up in the room while the music was being made. The son of an LA film composer, he was a kid at recording sessions who traded the clarinet for an upright the moment he heard Ray Brown . Now he's the musical director of Jeff Goldblum's jazz band and one of the most ...

Introducing Adrian Galante

By Adrian Galante

Label: Zoho Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: It Amazes Me; You're All the World to Me; With Every Breath I Take; I Hadn't Anyone Till You; It's Alright with Me; The Folks Who Live on the Hill; Thanks a Million; Two for the Road

Ella Sophie Quartet at Sam First

by Alex Siegers
May 28, 2025

Ella Sophie Quartet Sam First Los Angeles, CAMay 21, 2025 The future of jazz singing is bright. Ella Sophie (Ella Dunbar-Wilcox) is a New Zealander jazz vocalist and composer living in Los Angeles took audiences on a journey through the American Songbook, shedding new light on these well-loved tunes. She was ...

Adrian Galante: Introducing Adrian Galante

by Jack Bowers
April 30, 2025

The late Phil Woods used to argue that of all the members of the woodwind family, the clarinet is by far the most difficult to manage, saying it was “designed by six guys who had never met one another." If Australian-born, New York-based clarinetist Adrian Galante has any problems with the instrument, they are in no ...

Matt Otto: Umbra

by Gary Fukushima
January 14, 2024

In his 30-plus years in music, Matt Otto has, in addition to mastering improvising and training his ear to near perfection, learned to write incredibly complex compositions, challenging in every musical aspect: melodic, harmonic, rhythmic. Yet even now, his composing continues to evolve. “I feel like it's maybe less evolution than like going back ...