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Jimmy McGriff, Towner Galaher, Woody Herman & Joel Goodman
by Joe Dimino
From the genius of composer & pianist Joel Goodman, we enter the 811th Episode of Neon Jazz with \music off his 2023 album An Exquisite Moment. We also hear new jazz from emerging musicians in Chloe Jean, Benny Benack III and Tigrane Kazazian. Also, veterans including Towner Galaher, Marc Ciprut and the great Doug Macdonald joined ...
Benny Benack III: Third Time's The Charm
by Dan Bilawsky
Though the title of this third album from multihyphenate Benny Benack III might imply misfires with his first two go-rounds, the truth really runs contrary to that line of reasoning. One of a Kind (BB3, 2017), while flying under the radar, introduced some listeners to a talent far too large to be contained; and A Lot ...
I'm All Smiles
Label: @DominiqueBianco2022
Released: 2022
Track listing: I’m All Smiles - 4:44
Stompin at the savoy - 4:04
Brigas Nunca Mais - 3:58
When sunny gets blue - 4:49
Jeannine - 5:40
Good Spirits
Label: Cellar Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Inner Glimpse; For the Great Gerald Cannon; I Will Wait for You; There But for the Grace Of;
Isotope; Beeb’s Lament; Beijo Partito; Straight Life.
The 2022 Christmas Jazz Show
by Jerome Wilson
Christmas Day has passed but it is still the holiday season so here is my Christmas show for this year featuring all kinds of holiday-related jazz tunes from the sacred to the very secular. The musicians heard on the program include Mars Williams, Diana Krall, Babs Gonzales, Nnenna Freelon, Jimmy Smith. and Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O. ...
Alexander Claffy: Good Spirits
by Jack Bowers
Bassist Alexander Claffy's quintet dashes from the starting gate on Good Spirits with a fiery reading of McCoy Tyner's propulsive “Inner Glimpse," setting the tone for a bright and animated session whose spirit is undeniably good. The album was recorded “live" (no audience) at GB's Juke Joint in New York City “at the height of the ...
Meet Vocalist Anais Reno
by Sanford Josephson
This article first appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. When she was eight years old, Anais Reno (now 18) began taking voice lessons from singer/songwriter Sarah Tolar. “I feel very grateful to her," Reno said, “because after a couple of months of working together, she sensed that maybe some older American Songbook music would be ...
Benny Benack III: Presentation matters
by Leo Sidran
Benny Benack III didn't necessarily start out thinking he would be a hipster crooner. He spent his 10,000 hours dealing with the trumpet, and he's still dealing with it. He tells me that he brings it with him everywhere--even on dates. He says, “Freddie Hubbard, Clifford Brown, Roy Hargrove, and Clark Terry were my early idols ...
Hard Sledding
by Patrick Burnette
Like musicians in every genre, jazzers can't resist the lure of making Christmas and/or holiday themed albums from time to time. Some of the efforts turn into timeless classics. But let's be real—most of 'em don't. We talk about two recent efforts, an oddity from the 'ninties, and one of Capitol records many repackaging of their ...
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