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Bryan Murray

Saxophonist Bryan Murray’s mature conception of music distinguishes him as both a performer and as a composer. His music has a unique sensibility, focusing simply on caliber of ideas and timelessness of melody. He is firmly rooted in an improvisational and communicative tradition, but remains open to all styles of music, resulting in a sound that draws from all genres and defies categorization. Most importantly, his work retains the sense of joy that initially attracted both performers and appreciators to music: he plays because he loves to; and that love speaks, loud and clear, to his audience. Bryan was born and raised in Nitro, West Virginia, where he began studying and playing professionally at a young age with local guitarist/bassist Chuck Biel

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Anahí

Label: Entropic Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Guanabara Eyes; Squirrel Samba; Sumidouro; Ivaniando; The Broken Partido; Anahí; For Luiz; Old Story; Theme for MZ; The Lost Minuet; Big Friends; Hymn Noire; Bonus Track: Heptane;

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Label: Entropic Records
Released: 2026
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Modern Flora

Label: Soft Launch Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: If Spring Comes like They Say; The Head of a Dog; The Unicellular Spore; Modern Flora; All Thumbs.

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Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Modern Flora

Read "Modern Flora" reviewed by Neil Duggan


In years gone by, record stores would sometimes categorise their albums by genre, so there would be sections on jazz, pop and singer-songwriter, etc. Modern Flora from Dylan Hicks & Small Screens is the sort of album that could cause the record store owner a problem, as the album would comfortably fit into all those categories. ...

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Beats by Balto! Vol. 2

Label: Chant Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Battalions; Beat Like This; Big P (Interlude); Tears and Fists; Ex Machina; Cap’n Crunch (Interlude); Truck Gun; Enter; Weak Sauce (Interlude); Hot Shit.

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Bryan Murray & Jon Lundbom: Beats by Balto! Vol. 2

Read "Beats by Balto! Vol. 2" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Spinning Beats by Balto Vol. 2 in the midst of a global pandemic brings to mind a quote from Zack de la Rocha: “Fear is your only god on the radio." The Rage Against The Machine frontman is begging you to turn off your radio, but somehow you just can't turn off Balto!'s beats.

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Moppa Elliott: Jazz Band/Rock Band/Dance Band

Read "Jazz Band/Rock Band/Dance Band" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Bassist Moppa Elliott is best known as the leader of the surrealistic jazz group, Mostly Other People Do The Killing, but his musical universe, encompassing work with symphony orchestras and new music ensembles, stretches much farther than that band's frantic music. This is reflected in this 2 CD set of Elliott leading three different types of ...

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Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord: Harder On The Outside

Read "Harder On The Outside" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


A complex web of sampling, beat construction and live improvisation all led to this disc by guitarist Jon Lundbom and his group, Big Five Chord, a CD that is a heady stew of hard-edged funk grooves, squalling saxophones and gleeful guitar freakouts. This project started with saxophonist Bryan Murray sampling old Big Five Chord ...

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Article: Live From Philadelphia

Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Sirius Juju and Unspeakable Garbage at Jerry's on Front

Read "Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Sirius Juju and Unspeakable Garbage at Jerry's on Front" reviewed by Geno Thackara


Mostly Other People Do the Killing/Sirius Juju/Unspeakable GarbageJerry's on FrontPhiladelphia, PAFebruary 16, 2019 Twenty blocks and a world away from the clubs and bars of Philadelphia's city center, the experimental art space of Jerry's on Front is a room one would hardly imagine for music at all. It's a nondescript one-car-garage-sized ...


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