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Alexander Claffy

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19 year old Claffy hails from the greater Philadelphia area, starting first with Electric and then Upright Bass. His father being a bandleader, and his mother a singer, he was exposed to music early on. Claffy continues to study under the legendary Mike Boone, and bassists Gregg August, Peter Paulsen, and soon with bassist Dwayne Burno. Now attending the New School For Jazz and Contemporary Music, he has played around the NYC/Philly area with the likes of Pianists Orrin Evans and George Burton, drummers Justin Faulkner, Wayne Smith Jr., and horn players such as Duane Eubanks and Ben Flocks.

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Article: Album Review

Kerry Politzer: Alternate Route

Read "Alternate Route" reviewed by Paul Rauch


Pianist Kerry Politzer had released eight albums before Alternate Route (Whirlwind, 2025), though to many jazz listeners they essentially flew under the radar. Politzer is a Portland, Oregon-based musician on the faculty at the esteemed jazz studies program at Portland State. With this, her ninth offering, more attention and accolades are bound to come her way. ...

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My Ideal

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: No Promises; Softly as in a Morning Sunrise; Past Times; Have You Met Miss Jones; My Ideal; I Love You; Path of Totality; SD Card.

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Lilac Wine- Tribute to Helen Merrill

Label: Venus Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To; Lilac Wine; All of Me; Comes Love; I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do; Wild Is the Wind; Lover Man; Night And Day; 'S Wonderful; Masquerade Is Over

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Alternate Route

Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Before It's Too Late; Here We Go Again; Watercolor; Storm Warning; Alternate Route; Stopped at a Green Light; The Sunrise Wants to Break Through; Intensity; Change of Plans; No Present Like the Time; Tara.

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LateNights

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Time After Time; I Wish I Knew; It’s All Right With Me; It Never Entered My Mind; Quiet Nights With Quiet Stars (Corcovado); You Do Something To Me; Skylark.

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Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2025
Duration: 06:46

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Article: Album Review

Sam Dillon: My Ideal

Read "My Ideal" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Any impartial assessment of My Ideal, Sam Dillon's second album for Cellar Music (following 2018's Out in the Open), should leave no doubt that the New York-born and based tenor saxophonist has definitely hit his stride, punctuating an already strong and persuasive voice on the horn with ample self-confidence and and a bounteous wellspring of innovative ...

Article: Live Review

Dolomiti Ski Jazz - Edizione 2025

Read "Dolomiti Ski Jazz - Edizione 2025" reviewed by Paolo Peviani


Dolomiti Ski Jazz--XXIX Edizione Val di Fiemme, Val di Fassa, Val di Cembra 07-16 marzo 2025 Fedele al motto “musica calda tra paesaggi innevati", anche questa ventinovesima edizione del Dolomiti Ski Jazz ha puntato sul consueto mix di concerti di intrattenimento sulle terrazze dei rifugi per allietare la pausa pranzo degli sciatori, ...

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Article: Album Review

The Heavy Hitters: That's What's Up!

Read "That's What's Up!" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Mike LeDonne and Eric Alexander head up a band called Heavy Hitters, which features a stellar cast of New York's jazz elite, including trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, alto saxophonist Vincent Herring, bassist Alexander Claffy and drummer Kenny Washington. They have released That's What's Up!, a live recording from Frankie's Jazz Club in Vancouver, British Columbia in December ...


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