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Album

Live at Sweet Basil

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: It's About Time; Art's Song; Shortcomings; When Love is New; A Theme in 3/4; My Funny Valentine.

Album

Label: Red Record
Released: 2023
Track listing: Booker's Bossa - Take 1; Without a Song - Take 2; Sixth Avenue - Take 1; Bridge Work - Take 3; Wothout a Song - Take 1; Bridge Work - Take 2; Booker's Boss - Take 2; Li'l Darlin';

Article: Live Review

The Heavy Hitters Live at Jazz Alley

by Paul Rauch
December 19, 2023

The Heavy Hitters Jazz Alley Seattle, Washington December 12, 2023 At first glance, this gig's title gives the impression of an all-star lineup of established players running through the changes of straight ahead standards in a friendly setting. There was some semblance of that, with the band boasting an assemblage ...

Article: Album Review

Black Gold Orchestra: Genesis

by Jack Bowers
December 8, 2023

Two years after it was formed by drummer Larry Wilson in 2021, the impressive Atlanta, Georgia-based Black Gold Orchestra has released its debut album, Genesis, a handsome medley of original compositions by Wilson and saxophonist Frank Houston complementing others by Cedar Walton, Horace Silver, Charles Earland and OutKast (a.k.a. Andre Benjamin). Even though ...

Article: Live Review

Ron Carter & the Foursight Quartet at Barcelona Jazz Festival

by Giulia Bianchi
November 17, 2023

Ron Carter and the Foursight Quartet Voll Damm Festival Jazz Barcelona at Paral-el 62 Barcelona November 9, 2023 Ron Carter and his ensemble, the Foursight Quartet, recently performed on November 9th at the prestigious Voll Damm Festival Jazz Barcelona, a global benchmark for jazz music. The festival offers various activities that ...

Article: Live Review

Jeremy Pelt Quintet at Jazz Alley

by Paul Rauch
November 15, 2023

Jeremy Pelt Quintet Jazz Alley Seattle, WA November 7, 2023 At forty seven years of age, trumpeter/composer Jeremy Pelt came of age as a musician in the mid-1990's as a young member of the Mingus Big Band. He benefited greatly during that time and in the years that followed, from the ...

Article: Album Review

Robert Edwards: Up Swing

Read "Up Swing" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
November 8, 2023

Veteran trombonist, educator and bandleader Robert Edwards is a fixture of New York City jazz scene, performing in many of the jazz venues in the city and, as of this writing, becoming the newest member of the famed Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. Edwards fronts a marvelous quintet that has been performing regularly at Smalls Jazz Club for ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases Plus Birthday Shoutouts To Foremothers Nellie Lutcher, Victoria Spivey & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
October 23, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from Charu Suri, Ann Hampton Callaway, Sharon Sable, Michael Dease, Colette Michaan, Olivia Perez-Collellmir and Jennifer Wharton's Bonegasm, with birthday shoutouts to foremothers Nellie Lutcher (He's A Real Gone Guy, Hurry On Down) and Victoria Spivey (Black Snake Blues), vocalists Amy Cervini, Freddy Cole, Nancy Kelly, Amy London, Nona Hendryx, pianist ...

Article: Profile

The Jazz Education of Ian Shaw

by Mathew Bahl
August 22, 2023

A few notable exceptions aside, great jazz musicians are not born; they are created. Most young musicians start by absorbing the work of important influences and then, through practice and live performance, decide what to keep, what to modify and what to discard. Ultimately, originality is less a byproduct of inspiration and more the end result ...

Article: Album Review

Kevin O'Connell Quartet: Hot New York Minutes

Read "Hot New York Minutes" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 13, 2023

Although Hot New York Minutes is Chicago-based pianist Kevin O'Connell's date, it could well be saxophonist Adam Brenner's, as the two share roughly equal time soloing and contribute their talents as writer and/or arranger on half a dozen of the album's ten numbers. In fact, the subtitle reads “Featuring Adam Brenner," and the album, O'Connell writes, ...