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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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Alive in Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (At Chris’ Jazz Cafe)

By Alexander Claffy

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: She; 7.5; Bass Introduction; Hard Time Killing Floor Blues ; Piano Introduction / Be My Love; Oriental Folk Song; Without A Song; Just For The Love.

Article: Album Review

Alexander Claffy: Alive in Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (At Chris’ Jazz Cafe)

Read "Alive in Philadelphia, Vol. 1 (At Chris’ Jazz Cafe)" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 7, 2026

Bassist Alexander Claffy, a pillar on the New York City jazz scene since 2011, returned “home" in March 2025 to record Alive in Philadelphia Vol. 1 for an enthusiastic audience at Chris' Jazz Club, on whose stage he had performed since he was a teenager in the City of Brotherly Live. He did not ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Alma Mićić's Balkan Soul in the Brave New World

by C. Michael Bailey
April 8, 2026

After having released four recordings between 2004 and 2017, the Serbian-American vocalist Alma Mićić (pronounced “Mee-cheech") took the COVID-19 pandemic off in the studio, returning in 2024 contributing vocals for “Evergreen" on tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander's release Timing Is Everything (Cellar Live/La Reserve Records). Mićić's collaboration with Alexander jumpstarted the singer's return to the studio, which ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra, Hendrik Meurkens, Alexander Claffy, Noa Levy & Paul Edis and more

by Benjamin Boddie
April 2, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra, Hendrik Meurkens, Alexander Claffy, Noa Levy & Paul Edis, The BLCK Madonna, Ulysses Owens Jr., Dominic Walker Trio, The Sistering, Pat Bianchi, James Fernando, Sam Robinson, Dave Wilson Quartet, Jazz Sabbath, Jack Wood, Baltimore Jazz Collective, Sam Yahel, Monika Herzig, Kurt Elling & WDR Big Band, ...

Article: Album Review

Kerry Politzer: Alternate Route

Read "Alternate Route" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch
January 6, 2026

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

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.

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Lilac Wine - Tribute to Helen Merrill

By Alma Micic

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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LateNights

By Brad Schrader

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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Alternate Route

By Kerry Politzer

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.