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Caleb Elzinga is a tenor saxophonist from Grand Rapids Michigan. He graduated from Michigan State University with his Undergraduate Degree, and later Western Michigan University with a Master’s Degree in Jazz Performance. Learning from great saxophonists Professor Diego Rivera(MSU) and Dr. Andrew Rathbun(WMU), he is an experienced improvisor with a wide variety of influences. Having played in many projects performing Jazz, Rock, Funk, R&B, and Reggae, he is comfortable in many genres. While in school, he also had the opportunity to play and work with artists such as Christian McBride, Jon Faddis, Herlin Riley, Randy Brecker, Antonio Hart, and George Garzone.

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Monsters' Impromptu

By Lee Heerspink

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Let It Simmer; Stumble Bumble; Monsters’ Impromptu; Rinse Cycle; See You Soon; What Happens in the Woods; Preach It Gary.

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Lee Heerspink: Monsters' Impromptu

Read "Monsters' Impromptu" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 26, 2021

There is ample energy and enthusiasm on Michigan-based guitarist Lee Heerspink's debut recording, Monsters' Impromptu, which consists of seven of the leader's funk/fusion-based compositions performed by an admirable quintet whose members are clearly in sync with Heerspink's assertive point of view, and lend him their unflagging support. Six of the seven compositions are ...

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Derek Brown: All Figured Out

Read "All Figured Out" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
March 7, 2021

Tenor player Derek Brown has made a name for himself with a concept called “BEATBoX SAX," a method of playing saxophone in a continuous stream of pops, honks, melody and slap-tonguing that comes out like a hip-hop variation on Boots Randolph's old novelty tune. “Yakety Sax." He has put several videos on YouTube of him doing ...

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9 Paredes

By Alfredo Balcacer

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020

Article: Album Review

Alfredo Balcacer: Suspended Sea

Read "Suspended Sea" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
September 8, 2019

The only constant is change, and it's in that phrase that we can best suss out the meaning(s) embedded within this debut from Dominic guitarist Alfredo Balcacer. Expressing both roots and evolutionary branches, Balcacer hangs his lines on the sounds of his homeland while extending their reaches across the Caribbean to address his growth as an ...