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Sam Dillon: My Ideal

by Jack Bowers
August 12, 2025

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

by Paolo Peviani
March 21, 2025

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, ...

Article: Album Review

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

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

by Pierre Giroux
January 21, 2025

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Heavy Hitters: That's What's Up!

Read "That's What's Up!" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 3, 2025

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 ...

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Timing Is Everything

By Eric Alexander

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.

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That's What's Up!

By The Heavy Hitters

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.

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New York Session

By Frederik Villmow

Label: Heartbeat Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: A1 Heartbeat Composed By – Frederik Villmow A2 First Trip Composed By – Ron Carter A3 Up & Down Composed By – Frederik Villmow B1 Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum Composed By – Wayne Shorter B2 The Case Of Steven Avery Composed By – Frederik Villmow B3 Mirror Mirror Composed By – Chick Corea

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You're My Thrill

By Alma Micic

Label: Venus Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Bye Bye Blackbird; I’ll Be Seeing You; In a Sentimental Mood; Mad About You; Moja Mala Nema Mane; My One and Only Love; The Shadow of Your Smile; You're My Thrill; Zute Dunje.

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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.

Article: Album Review

Rasmus Sørensen: At The Right Time

Read "At The Right Time" reviewed by Konstantin N. Rega

by Konstantin N. Rega
November 15, 2024

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 ...