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Dave Stryker: As We Are

Read "As We Are" reviewed by Kyle Simpler

by Kyle Simpler
January 4, 2022

Pat Metheny has a section of his website entitled “Pat Recommends," where he discusses jazz guitarists whom he believes are “making the best music of their careers" on their recent recordings. Dave Stryker is one of the musicians Metheny mentions, and this is certainly an accurate assessment. Dave Stryker has established himself as one of the ...

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In the Beginning

By Arkadia Jazz All-Stars

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: New Vista, Beauty and the Beast, Caravan, Naima, Jazz Influence, Convite (Invitation), Up Jumped Spring, Tiny Capers, Yardbird Suite, Smashing Thirds, Out of Nowhere

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Path To Light

By Denis Krupin

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: 01 - Eternal Youth (prologue) 02 - Planktonic Night 03 - Distant Years 04 - Twenty Seventh Of November (dedicated to Lyle Mays) 05 - Light 06 - An Hour Before Dawn 07 - Edge Of The Sun 08 - Fast Light 09 - One Day It Will Come True 10 - Eternal Youth (epilogue)

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Soundscapes

By Bob Mintzer

Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2021
Track listing: A Reprieve; The Conversation; Stay Up; Montuno; Whack; Canyon Winds; Herky Jerky; New Look; One Music; VM.

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Latin Jazz Project Vol. 2

By Ray Obiedo

Label: Rhythmus Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Still Life; Criss Cross;Beatnik; Santa Lucia; Belafonte; Uno Dos; Viva Tirado; Big World.

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Michał, Adam and Piotr of the Confusion Project

by AAJ Staff
December 9, 2021

Meet Confusion Project Confusion Project is a jazz trio from Poland, established in 2013. Confusion Project could be said to take a neoromantic approach to jazz fusion, with extensive compositions, strong melodies and complex rhythms. Confusion Project has released 4 albums to date. The latest one, entitled Last was released in October 2021. The ...

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OSU Jazz Orchestra: Room 118

by Jack Bowers
December 6, 2021

Room 118 honors the space in the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts wherein the splendid Oklahoma State University Jazz Orchestra and other on-campus jazz groups held their rehearsals for many years. There must be something special there, as the OSU ensemble is one of the most well-rehearsed university-level jazz ensembles you're likely to encounter this ...

Song of the Day

Twenty Seventh of November (dedicated to Lyle Mays)

November 8, 2021

Album: Path To Light
By Denis Krupin
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 08:15

Song of the Day

Plangtonic Night

October 17, 2021

Album: Path To Light
By Denis Krupin
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 04:27

Article: Album Review

Bob Mintzer: Soundscapes

Read "Soundscapes" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci

by Richard J Salvucci
October 10, 2021

Well, what is your pleasure? Swinging charts? You have them. A tight big band? Yes, that certainly, and more. Terrific soloists? In abundance. A blend of genres that go from straight ahead to Latin to funk? That is all here too. The only thing absent, and all respect to Bob Mintzer, is excitement. To be honest, ...