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Some musicians’ careers are easily pigeonholed. Not so Bob Sheppard’s. For more than four decades, the multi-instrumentalist has played on countless sessions with an astounding crop of A-list jazz giants—among them Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Michael and Randy Brecker, Mike Stern, Herbie Hancock, Kurt Elling, Dianne Reeves, Lyle Mays, John Beasley and Steps Ahead—and artists within several other genres. He’s also recorded and toured as a leader, contributed to hundreds of movie and TV soundtracks, served as an educator and more. But what’s most astounding, perhaps, is that Bob Sheppard still has so much more he wants to do

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Tidelines

By Julian Wittich 紀安

Label: Universal Music Taiwan
Released: 2026
Track listing: Matsu's Mood; Bolivia; These Paths Channel Light; Canto de Ossanha; June 12; Sinking Fish, Falling Geese; Party in Olinda; Street of Dreams; Get Out of Town

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Robyn Spangler

By Robyn Spangler

Label: WIFFIM Music
Released: 2026
Track listing: Every Little Thing; Call Me; O Que Se Sabe De Cor; I Was A Fool To Care; Hello It’s Me; A Case Of You; Something In The Air; I Do It For Your Love; Baby I’m A Fool; Are We Really Through; Tennessee Waltz.

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Shifty Paradigms

By Dave Slonaker

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Dash Cam; Bye Bye Blues; Comin’ Home; Blue Windows; Shifty Paradigms; 3rd and Four; Cathedrals; Roundabout.

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Julian Wittich 紀安: Tidelines

Read "Tidelines" reviewed by Andrew Schinder

by Andrew Schinder
August 15, 2026

Young bassist Julian Wittich 紀安's debut album, Tidelines, successfully introduces the musician to the contemporary jazz canon. Based in New York (though a fixture of the Taiwanese live music scene), having Taiwanese and Dutch ancestry, and educated in Amsterdam, Wittich is certainly a citizen of the world. That global outlook informs the diverse, colorful music heard ...

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Robyn Spangler: Robyn Spangler

Read "Robyn Spangler" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 18, 2026

Award-winning vocal stylist, songwriter, and actress Robyn Spangler is a fourth-generation performer whose deep musical roots trace back to an Indiana childhood of circus musicians, military band players, and a mother who sang in big bands. After taking piano lessons from former Steve Miller Band keyboardist Jim Peterman and fronting professional cover bands at age 17, ...

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Peter Erskine: Peregrine

Read "Peregrine" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 14, 2026

Drummer Peter Erskine, who began his productive career with the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the last century, is a master craftsman who is comfortably at home in groups large or small. Along the way, he has recorded more than forty-five albums as leader or co-leader of various ensembles, always embracing his assignment with proficiency and taste. ...

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Shifty Paradigms

February 19, 2026

Album: Shifty Paradigms
By Dave Slonaker
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 07:59

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Dave Slonaker Big Band: Shifty Paradigms

Read "Shifty Paradigms" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 16, 2026

While Los Angeles-based composer and arranger Dave Slonaker's paradigms may be shifty, his all-star big band is about as forthright as one could wish. On Shifty Paradigms, his third recording fronting the band, Slonaker guides his peerless eighteen-member ensemble through its paces on a dynamic and always-swinging program that encompasses seven of his stellar original compositions ...

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Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner

By Peter Erskine

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: March of the Merry Men; Sterbelied (from Lieder des Abschieds, Op. 14); Old Spanish Song; The Boys Go to Play; Concerto Miniature (theme from Violin Concerto, 2nd mvt.); Romance (Violin Concerto, 2nd mvt.); Tara’s Theme; Belle Watling; Johnny Belinda; String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 26 (Larghetto); A Summer Place; Ghost Coda (theme from Violin Concerto, 2nd mvt.).