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Ben Kono
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Since moving to New York City in 1999, woodwind performer and saxophonist Ben Kono has been attracting attention as a singular emerging voice in cutting-edge groups like Darcy James Argue's Secret Society and the John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble. Now, with the release of his debut recording CROSSING on Nineteen-Eight Records, he has come into his own light as a leader and composer of note. While growing up in bucolic southern Vermont, a deep love of classical music was fostered by his parent's strong advocacy of the arts and spurred on by a community rich in culture, live music, and arts awareness
Open Spaces
Label: Cellar Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald; How Many Roads; Ahead by a Century; Shenandoah; I
Hear; Jib Set; Canadian Folk Song; Rentrer; Sarracenia Purpurea; Red River Valley.
Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra: Open Spaces
by Jerome Wilson
The subtitle of this album is “Folk Songs Reimagined" and Daniel Hersog uses a very liberal meaning for the term “folk song" here. He includes traditional folk songs on this album, in addition to familiar tunes by Bob Dylan and Gordon Lightfoot and his own folk-based compositions. All are given a glistening polish in the sweeping ...
Shenandoah
Album: Open Spaces
By Daniel Hersog
Label: Cellar Music
Released: 2023
Duration: 8:17
Erica Seguine/Shon Baker Orchestra: The New Day Bends Light
by Jack Bowers
The New Day Bends Light, the debut recording by the twelve-year-old Erica Seguine/Shon Baker Orchestra, is interesting on a number of levels, not the least of which is emotional. The leaders and their twenty-one piece ensemble are clearly committed to the music and do their best to breathe life into each of the album's seven numbers, ...
Joe McCarthy's New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band: The Pan American Nutcracker Suite
by Jack Bowers
Yes, Peter Tchaikovsky's timeless Nutcracker Suite is basically holiday music; and, yes, the 2022 holiday season is squarely in everyone's rear-view mirror. Even so, there is always room for a fresh approach to the annual festive staple, which is what drummer Joe McCarthy's New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band brings to The Pan American Nutcracker ...
The Pan American Nutcracker Suite
By Joe McCarthy
Label: Angel Face Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Overture; March; Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy; Trepak; Arabian Dance; Chinese Dance; Dance of the Reed Flutes; Waltz of the Flowers.
Architecture of Storms
Label: Soundspore Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Neener Neener; Minnesota, Wi.; The Melancholy Architecture of Storms; Face Value; Union; Sibbian; Secondhand Smile; Bring Me There; Rumpus.
I've Got News For You: The Music of Edgar Winter
By Ed Palermo
Label: Sky Cat Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: I Hate Everybody;
Tobacco Road;
Peace Pipe;
All Out;
A Different Game;
Dying to Live;
Jump Right Out;
Entrance;
Where Have You Gone;
Rise to Fall;
Fire and Ice;
Hung Up;
Back in the Blues;
Re-Entrance;
You Are My Sunshine;
I've Got News For You.
Daring Mind
By Jihye Lee
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Relentless Mind; Unshakeable Mind; Suji; I Dare You; Revived Mind; Struggle Gives You Strength; Why Is That; Dissatisfied Mind; GB.
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