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Billy Drewes

Billy Drewes has been creating music, composing, performing and recording since the mid 1970s. His main instruments include soprano, alto and tenor saxophones, clarinets, flutes, drums, percussion and piano. Featured on over 150 CDs with performance credits worldwide, he continually searches out new avenues for creative expression. Billy shares the stage with Joe Lavano, Bill Frisell, Paul Motian and Tonincho Horta at the venues from Egypt to Cuba, Israel to Africa, New York's Carnegie Hall to Albert Royal Hall in London. In addition to his love of performing, he takes great interest in the education of college and high school students

Ronald's Rhumba

January 3, 2027

Album: over-dues
By Adam Chilenski
Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 05:18

over-dues

By Adam Chilenski

Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Martha's Prize; Sundial; Ronald's Rhumba; Li'l Darlin; Silence; Upheaval; In Hindsight; Quarter To

Aubrey Johnson Sextet at The Jazz Loft

by Dan Bilawsky
November 4, 2026

What took place at The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook, NY, on the evening of October 30, 2026, was less a concert than a nexus-level event.  Vocalist Aubrey Johnson traveled to Long Island with bandmates in tow to celebrate the release of her stunning new sextet album, The Lively Air (Greenleaf, 2026); and she was also ...

John Yao and His 17 Piece Instrument: Points In Time

by Jack Bowers
August 4, 2025

The insuperable spirit of swinging big-band jazz is everywhere apparent on Points in Time, the seventh recording by New York-based composer, arranger and trombonist John Yao, and the second with his marvelous 17-Piece Instrument, a decade after its well-received debut, Flip-Flop. (See Tao, 2015). As on that earlier album, the playlist consists of ...

Phil Raskin: Songs Of The Fathers

by Sammy Stein
June 13, 2024

Introduction The eye-catching artwork on Songs of The Fathers by Satya (Resonant Artists 2024) is the work of photographer Peter Koppenaal. The image features layer upon layer of people figures outlined against a fiery backdrop of African colors. The picture is, in fact, more representative of the label that might at first be apparent because Resonant ...

Introducing Saxophonist Olivia Hughart

by Sanford Josephson
March 1, 2024

Growing up in Lower Merion, PA, a Philadelphia suburb, Olivia Hughart started playing jazz saxophone in middle school. “My parents were big music lovers," she recalled. “We were listening to music all the time. They're huge Yellowjackets fans, so we'd always listen to Bob Mintzer playing. Also, Dexter Gordon, Larry McKenna, Melissa Aldana, and Roxy Coss." ...

A collection of musical sculptures

By Wood

Label: Resonant Artists
Released: 2023
Track listing: Wake up (call); Wawzyn; The Greeting; Grassy Knoll; Tuning Up?; So we thought; Overture for an orchard; Uno Momento; Open Shut; Alop for Guitar; Estrimadura; Drewzee; Biz-e-o; The Thinking Man; "Excuse me ma'am but the show's over".

Off-Kilter

By John Yao

Label: See Tao Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: Below The High Rise; Labyrinth; Interlude No. 1; Quietly; Crosstalk; Unfiltered; the Morphing Line; Interlude No. 2; Off-Kilter.

Baden

By Gui Duvignau

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Canto de Ossanha; Canto de Xangô; Tristeza e Solidão; Ao Baden; Bluesa Preta/Asa Branca; Canto de Iemanjá; Refém da Solidão; O Astronauta; Mata Adentro; Berimbau / Consolação; Lapinha; For Bill & Baden.