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Brian Charette

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New York City organist/pianist, Brian Charette, has established himself as a leading voice in modern Jazz. Charette is a Grammy-nominated, Hammond-endorsed artist who was the winner of the 2014 Downbeat Critics’ Poll "Rising Star: Organ" award and has climbed to 4th place in The 2016 Critic's Poll main Organ category. This year Brian also won The Hot House Magazine Fan's Decision Jazz Award for Best Organist in New York. His brand new recording, Once and Future, is currently #17 on the Jazz Week chart and is also on the Itunes new music Top 20. Charette was born in Meriden, Connecticut in 1972, and was introduced to music by his mother, Catherine
Clifton Anderson, Reggie Quinerly & Allan Harris

by Joe Dimino
We devote a full hour of Neon Jazz to the music and artists of 2021. A lot of music was backlogged from 2020, but it was time to take a long look at the artists who are making 2021 a special year for jazz. We start off with NYC trombonist Clifton Anderson and make our way ...
John, Gary and Eartha

In the Wall Street Journal last week, I interviewed John Fogerty on Bad Moon Rising for my Anatomy of a Song" column. John wrote the song for Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1969 and was inspired by a 1941 movie, Elvis and San Francisco hippie astrology. I last interviewed John on the writing and recording of Proud ...
Brian Charette: Like the Sun

by Dan Bilawsky
With time on his hands, neurons firing fast and a serious hankering for tinkering, organist and keyboard whiz Brian Charette created what can best be described as an integrated groove orchestrion with catholic tastes. Using samplers, drum machines and arpeggiators programmed to react to and accompany his playing, Charette birthed a man-meets-machine outfit bent on exploring ...
Apples & Oranges

By Doug Webb
Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Alexico; Monkey Face; Forethought; In A Sentimental Mood; How Can I Be Sure; Coruba; Spring Is Here; Apples
& Oranges; Estaté; For Steve.
Snapdragon

By Oz Noy
Label: Abstract Logix
Released: 2020
Track listing: Looni Tooni; Tired But Wired; Outer Look; She's Not There; Boom, Boo, Boom; Snapdragon;
Evidence; Groovin' Grant; Bemsha Swing (alternate take).
Like the Sun

Label: Dim Mak
Released: 2020
Track listing: 15 Minutes of Fame; Time Piece; Slasher; Honeymoon Phase; Like The Sun; Mela’s Cha Cha; Three Lights;
Break Tune; From Like to Love; Creole; Robot Heart; 7th St. Busker; 57 Chevy.
Beyond Borderline

Label: SteepleChase Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. Yolk
2. Wish List
3. Chelsea Bridge
4. Girls
5. Good Tipper
6. Hungarian Bolero
7. Prelude to a Kiss
8. Silicone Doll
9. 5th of Rhy
10. Aligned Arpeggio
11. Herman Ernst III
12. Public Transportation
Doug Webb: Apples & Oranges

by David A. Orthmann
The ingenuity of veterans operating within the recognizable parameters of the jazz mainstream never ceases to impress. A case in point is Apples & Oranges, tenor and soprano saxophonist Doug Webb's tenth release for the Posi-Tone imprint. A program comprised of the warhorses In A Sentimental Mood," Spring Is Here," and Estate," the 1960s pop song ...