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As the youngest faculty member in the jazz studies program at The Juilliard School, Brandon Lee is committed to preserving the integrity of America’s uniquely original art form, jazz. Brandon has toured the world presenting his hard-swinging, soulful and progressive music to captive audiences. As an artist for Wren/Tang Studios, Brandon has recently released his debut album, “From Within” to critical acclaim. With praise ranging from Jazziz Magazine to jazz master Benny Golson, His style has been described as “a rare combination of power and subtlety” and as “playing from the deepest grotto of your heart’s core.” Born in 1983 in Houston, Texas, Brandon is the middle child in a musical family of three siblings

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The Brubeck Octet Project Strikes Again!

By Jon De Lucia

Label: Musaeum Clausum Recordings
Released: 2026
Track listing: Goodnight Eileen; Happy in Love; Tea for Two; By Heart; Lullaby in Rhythm; Stardust; Fugue II; Body and Soul; Chorale; Kon-Tiki; Perdido

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Stardust

December 25, 2026

Album: The Brubeck Octet Project Strikes Again!
By Jon De Lucia
Label: Musaeum Clausum Recordings
Released: 2026
Duration: 04:42

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Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller

By David DeJesus

Label: Birdland Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Storybook; Water Lily; Tenderly; Chorale and Alleluia; Sail Away; WTF; Close Your Eyes; Concierto de Aranjuez/Spain; The Doubledown; Nonsense.

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The Birdland Big Band: Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller

Read "Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 7, 2025

Storybook, the third recording by the New York City-based Birdland Big Band, is subtitled “the music of Mark Miller" and is designed to showcase compositions and arrangements by that multi-talented artist who doubles (triples) as the band's lead trombonist. Miller wrote or co-wrote half of the album's 10 colorful and impressive numbers (11 if one counts ...

Article: What is Jazz?

Seattle Jazz Fellowship: A New Age In A New Space

by Paul Rauch
February 19, 2025

The Seattle Jazz Fellowship, a 501(c)(3) non-profit supporting jazz and jazz culture primarily at the local level, came to life in a backroom bar in the city's arts district on Capitol Hill in October 2021. The city, the nation, the world, was just beginning to fully climb out of the social slumber imposed by the COVID-19 ...

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The Brubeck Octet Project

By Jon De Lucia

Label: Museum Clausum
Released: 2024
Track listing: Curtain Music; Love Walked In; Fugue On Bop Themes; Let’s Fall In Love; IPCA; September In The Rain; I Hear A Rhapsody; The Way You Look Tonight; Prelude; What Is This Things Called Love?; Love Me Or Leave Me; Closing Theme.

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Swingin' Uptown

By Eyal Vilner

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Chicken an’ Dumplings; Bumpy Tour Bus; Swingin’ Uptown; Tell Me Pretty Baby; I Want Coffee; Is You Is or Is You Ain’t; Tea for Two; Lobby Call Blues; Blue Skies; Don’t You Feel My Leg; I Love the Rhythm in a Riff; I Don’t Want to Be Kissed (By Anyone Else But You); Swing Brother Swing; Coffee Bean Stomp Jubilee; Hellzapoppin’; Afternoon at Smalls.

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Jon De Lucia: The Brubeck Octet Project

Read "The Brubeck Octet Project" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 19, 2024

Having formed his jazz octet in 2016 for a project at City College of New York, where he was then teaching, Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist Jon De Lucia had to find new music to keep it going--a search that led him to the archives at Mills College, which housed many of Dave Brubeck's original handwritten charts among ...

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Eyal Vilner Big Band: Swingin' Uptown

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by Jack Bowers
September 6, 2024

Even though he was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, composer, saxophonist and educator Eyal Vilner is well-versed in the origins and history of American jazz, especially as they pertain to the Swing Era, big bands and the largely black jazz experience in Harlem and elsewhere. Those interests converge on Swingin' Uptown, on which Vilner's ...