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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.
My Ideal
By Sam Dillon
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.
Sam Dillon: My Ideal
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 ...
Dolomiti Ski Jazz - Edizione 2025
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, ...
The Heavy Hitters: That's What's Up!
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 ...
Heavy Hitters: That's What's Up!
by Jack Bowers
Heavy Hitters is a superb New York-based sextet co-led by pianist Mike LeDonne and tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander. Individually and as a team, the Hitters keep their eyes squarely on the ball, swing for the fences and, more often than not, slam the spheroid solidly out of the park. And on this typically upbeat session they ...
Flow
By Jihee Heo
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: New Yorker Step; I Can See Only One Step Ahead; Opening the New Door; Extreme Noise Blocker; Aquellos Ojos
Verdes; The Hidden Giant ; In a Sentimental Mood; The Late Bloomer.
Timing Is Everything
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: After The Rain; But Beautiful; Serenade To A Cuckoo; Big G's Monk; Sasquatch; Misty; Timing Is
Everything; Evergreen; Someone.
That's What's Up!
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: JB; That’s What’s Up; Shadows; Groundation; It’s Magic; Blues for All; Continuum; My One and
Only Love; Lord Walton; You’ll Never Know What You Mean to Me.
Rasmus Sørensen: At The Right Time
by Konstantin Rega
Danish-born, New York-based pianist Rasmus Sørensen finds melody as well as fluidity in At The Right Time. This rising jazz star stands alongside other young musicians like Joey Alexander and Fergus McCreadie, exhibiting his ability to craft pieces that have a generous listenability matched by a sophisticated musicality in more freestyle sections. With this release, Sørensen ...
