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Acclaimed by Downbeat as “one of the hippest bandleaders now at work,” Billy Drummond’s thrilling, powerful and highly musical playing has also made him one of the most called-for sidemen of his generation. Mentored in the bands of jazz legends Horace Silver, Joe Henderson, Bobby Hutcherson, J J Johnson and Sonny Rollins, Drummond is now widely acknowledged as one of today’s most versatile drummers, making sideman appearances with a veritable who’s who of jazz greats on over 350 albums. He has made three albums as a leader—including Dubai, a New York Times Number 1 Jazz Album of the Year—and five as a co-leader, including We’ll Be Together Again in Three’s Company, a trio with Javon Jackson and legendary bassist Ron Carter, which made several Top Ten lists of the Year
Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project
By Tessa Souter
Label: NOANARA Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: A Song For You (Gnossienne No. 1);
Mood (Musica Universalis);
Holding On To Beauty (Gnossienne No. 3);
Peace (Gnossienne No. 2);
Avec le Temps;
D'Ou Venons-Nous (Gymnopedie No. 3);
I Kiss Your Heart/Vexations;
Never Broken (ESP);
Rayga's Song (Gymnopedie No.1);
If You Go Away/Ne Me Quitte Pas.
Falling From Earth
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Easy Offramp;
Wing and a Prayer;
Bait Tone Blues;
Brush Stroke;
Common Ground;
Left Field;
Suspone;
But What Do You Want to Play;
A Child is Born;
Quien Es;
It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding).
Sound Advice
By Irv Grossman
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Sound Advice; X Rays Dilemma; Four The Moment; Fallen Hero; Lelani's Leap; Three Way Split;
Nefertiti; Espresso (No) Bongo.
John Clay: About Time
by Jack Bowers
New York-based drummer John Clay's latest album is appropriately titled About Time. For a drummer, of course, every phrase, every measure, every game plan is in essence about time, and Clay keeps exemplary time on each of the album's 10 numbers, as do the other members of his splendid quintet. Clay pilots a burnished ...
Bob Schlesinger: Falling From Earth
by Joshua Weiner
Many a music project was derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic, but Colorado-based pianist, composer, and educator Bob Schlesinger's Falling From Earth (Self-Produced, 2025) has had a longer gestation and more interesting rebirth than most. With funding from the Pathways to Jazz fund, part of the Boulder County Arts Alliance, Schelsinger initially planned for his first release ...
Tessa Souter: Singing Her Way to Happiness
by Dean Nardi
The English/Trinidadian artist is a bona fide treasure--consummate stage presence, captivating singer, accomplished songwriter. Arriving in New York via San Francisco in 1997, Souter won a scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music in 1999 but left after one semester to study privately with Mark Murphy, who mentored her for four years in return for booking ...
Bob Schlesinger at Dazzle
by Geoff Anderson
Bob Schlesinger Dazzle Denver, COAugust 14, 2025 For decades, renowned recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder captured one classic jazz album after another in his Englewood Cliffs, NJ studio. Perhaps because he did so many, he was extremely efficient. He was able to get an album on tape in a single day, ...
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)
Album: Falling From Earth
By Bob Schlesinger
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Duration: 06:19
A Song For You (Gnossienne No. 1)
Album: Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project
By Tessa Souter
Label: NOANARA Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 04:54
