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Anton Kot

Born: 2002

Anton Kot is an award-winning multi-instrumentalist and composer known for his work on drums, piano, and gamelan. Described as a musician with “composers’ wit” (Paul Rauch, All About Jazz), he is recognized by Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) as a 2025 Future Jazz Master who continues to push the boundaries of music by combining contemporary genres with the jazz idiom.

Born in New York City, Kot was raised by visual artist parents and immersed in the creative community of early Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He received his first drum set at age three and began piano lessons soon after at the age of 4. Following a Philip Glass performance at the nearby venue Roulette, he composed his first piece, “Snowstorm.” Kot credits his early exposure to the arts with broadening his musical palette and shaping his multifaceted sound.

The Ghibli Collection

By Owen Chen

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: One Summer's Day (From "Spirited Away"); The Dragon Boy (From "Spirited Away"); Carrying You (From "Castle in the Sky"); Mononoke Hime (From "Princess Mononoke"); Ashitaka and San (From "Princess Mononoke"); The Legend of Ashitaka (From "Princess Mononoke"); A Town with an Ocean View (From "Kiki's Delivery Service"); My Neighbor Totoro (From "My Neighbor Totoro"); Path of the Wind (From "My Neighbor Totoro").

Eternal Wind

By Owen Chen

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: One Summer’s Day; The Dragon Boy; Carrying You; Mononoke Hime; Ashitaka and San; The Legend of Ashitaka; A Town with an Ocean View; My Neighbor Totoro; Path of the Wind.

Picc Pocket

By Erica von Kleist

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: We Know How to Picc ‘Em; Let Me Picc Your Brain; Bone 2 Picc; Picc and Choose; Picc Up Lines; Picc a Peck.

Owen Chen: Eternal Wind

by Jack Bowers
June 8, 2026

Every song on guitarist Owen Chen's album Eternal Wind was written or co-written as part of a film score by Joe Hishaishi of Japan's animation company, Studio Ghibli. “The music, stories and emotions we encounter as children stay with us," Chen writes. “Eternal Wind aims to bring forth melodies that live in our past, with our ...

Erica von Kleist: Picc Pocket

by Jack Bowers
April 22, 2026

Those who favor puns and clever wordplay should get their kicks from the song titles alone on Picc Pocket, a splendid new recording by piccolo guru Erica von Kleist 's hand-picced--and fun-loving-- quartet and its spicc-tacular guest artists, trombonist Jennifer Krupa and tenor saxophonist John Ellis. The piccolo (a close cousin of the flute) ...

One Summer's Day

April 15, 2026

Album: The Ghibli Collection
By Owen Chen
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 06:11

Newcomer

By Emma Hedrick

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Idea of Love; Dreamscapes; Newcomer; In the Warmth; Tone Poem in Greenwich Village; Spring Haiku Collection; Inside Your Mind; In the Garden; Come on Home; Waste No More Days.

Emma Hedrick: Newcomer

by Pierre Giroux
August 31, 2025

In the competitive world of young jazz vocalists, Emma Hedrick stands out as an artist who both respects tradition and offers a distinctive personal voice. On her confident debut album Newcomer, she channels seven years of lived experiences into 10 original compositions that serve as a musical memoir of that period, while never losing sight of ...

Emma Hedrick: Newcomer

by Kyle Simpler
August 25, 2025

As long as there are songs, there will be singers to sing them, but there is a slight difference between a singer and a vocalist. Singers, no matter how talented, tend to remain in the foreground with the band in support. A vocalist, however, uses the voice as an instrument, becoming an integral part of the ...