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A contemporary drummer and aggressive, polyrhythmic stylist, Cecil Brooks, III has worked in the New York area with such musicians as Greg Osby, Geri Allen and Lonnie Plaxico. He recorded his debut album as a leader for Muse in 1989, subsequently releasing efforts including 1990's Hangin' with Smooth, 1993's Neck Peckin' Jammie and 2000's Our Mister Brooks in addition to session work in both a hard bop and bebop setting. The intimate setting of Live at Sweet Basil (2001). His father was a drummer and a grandfather a concert pianist, Brooks recalls that "music just flourished through the house

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Night Heat

By Justin Chart

Label: Universal Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Forward Face Grace; We Got Somethin Goin On; Notes to Myself; Scatter Good Seed in The Fields; Somewhat of A Character; Pearl Was; Bassment; Forthright; Calling Evans; Make The Grade.

Article: Album Review

Justin Chart: Night Heat

Read "Night Heat" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
November 14, 2024

Saxophonist Justin Chart is known for his cinematic, entirely improvised, live sessions. A stalwart of the Los Angeles, and Southern California, jazz scene, Chart has several superb albums to his credit. His 2024 record, Night Heat, maintains the same level of sophistication and spontaneity. It is culled from two separate appearances with different sidemen and consists ...

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Swinging Sunset

By Anthony E. Nelson Jr.

Label: Musicstand
Released: 2023
Track listing: Canadian Sunset; One More Once; Girl Talk; Una Mas Por Roberto; These Foolish Things; Minor Chant; Mildew; Why Did I Choose You; On A Misty Night; Three Little Words; Walk With Me; Last Call.

Article: Rising Stars

Introducing Drummer Mecadon McCune

by Sanford Josephson
September 18, 2023

Mecadon McCune has been immersed in music since he was born. His father is veteran jazz pianist Brandon McCune; his mother, Christine Clemmons-McCune, is an opera singer. “My dad made sure that I was learning piano since I was about four years old," he said, “but growing up I really did not like learning the piano. ...

Article: Interview

A Conversation with Don Braden

by AAJ Staff
August 1, 2023

This interview was first published in two parts at All About Jazz on May 1999. In this interview, we chat with Don Braden about his views on MP3 files, his relationship with Bill Cosby, the impact Kenny Kirkland had on his latest album for RCA Victor, Fire Within, and a host of other related ...

Article: Album Review

Anthony E. Nelson Jr.: Swinging Sunset

Read "Swinging Sunset" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
June 11, 2023

The fascination with Hammond B3 organ trios, which were so prevalent in the '50s and '60s, remains undiminished. And rightly so as there were some stellar organists who were plying their trade in that period, including Jimmy Smith, Milt Buckner and Wild Bill Davis. However, the mystique around the clubs in which these performers played may ...

Article: Album Review

Anthony E. Nelson Jr.: Swinging Sunset

Read "Swinging Sunset" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
May 30, 2023

Swinging Sunset, New Jersey-based tenor saxophonist Anthony E. Nelson Jr.'s fifth album on his Musicstand label, is an unpretentious, undemanding and utterly enjoyable celebration of the organ trios of the 1950s and 1960s. From the first bars of the opener, Eddie Heywood's “Canadian Sunset," it feels like we are in for a good time and, over ...

Article: Album Review

The Don Braden Organix Quartet: Luminosity

Read "Luminosity" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
July 29, 2015

Saxophonist Don Braden is all about positivity and sharing the joys of jazz. His ebullient music speaks to his intelligence yet he never falls prey to the jazz-as-intellectual-exercise trap that seems to snare younger musicians and a good amount of his peers. Over the course of his previous albums, Braden's managed to create accessible music built ...

Article: Profile

Jimmy Ponder: His Recorded Output

by Colter Harper
September 28, 2013

Jazz history has been intimately tied to its recorded output. Styles and genres are defined by landmark records, which stand responsible for representing the diffuse activities and artistic visions of a given musical community or individual. However, recordings are not simply glimpses of past musical realities but rather images of those realities filtered through various “lenses." ...