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Chris Anderson was born in Chicago on February 26, 1926. He passed away just before his 82nd birthday two years after suffering a stroke. His lifelong fascination with harmony, sparked by movie scores, began well before the age of 10. He was already teaching himself to play on the family piano, so well indeed that he never took lessons -- a clue to the startling originality of his harmonic ideas. Before Chris finished high school, he was playing blues gigs in South Side bars. An after-high school job in a record store exposed him to Nat King Cole, Art Tatum and Duke Ellington; from then on, jazz was his music. After those first three great mentors, Chris rarely listened to pianists

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Where We Started

By Aidan Plank

Label: Hidden Cinema Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Where We Started; Inside Your Dream; Ocean Poem; In the Bleak Midwinter; The Grand Arch of Nothingness; Billy; Glacier

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Nathan Paul: Life's Notes

by Daniel Peck
May 2, 2026

Nathan-Paul Davis grew up a pastor's son here in Cleveland, and knows how to deliver sound medicine to the people. His velvety lo-fi sounds are a vibe-heavy soul party, fusing modern trap, '70s funk, and fiery southern gospel.And Fusion is an apt word for this performance, which he terms Life's Notes. This show is ...

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Stories, dreams, inspirations: for my boy

By Bobby Selvaggio

Label: Hidden Cinema Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Good People; Blue; Falling Up; I Have A Dream; Concentric Circles, Free Play, Four Past Midnight.

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Top Secret Lab

By Rob Susman

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Tastes Like Chicken; This Time; Erghen Diado; East Side Infirmary; Burrito Malo; Out There; When a Man Loves a Woman.

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Blue

March 27, 2024

Album: Stories, dreams, inspirations: for my boy
By Bobby Selvaggio
Label: Hidden Cinema Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 09:33

Article: Album Review

Rob Susman: Top Secret Lab

Read "Top Secret Lab" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 31, 2024

Trombonist Rob Susman, who is inclined to dwell on the cutting edge of contemporary jazz, remains “out there" for the most part on Top Secret Lab, an album wherein his splendid nonet is challenged by half a dozen of Susman's intricate compositions (and two others) and aces every test without any detectable missteps or errant notes. ...

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Madd For Tadd

By Steve Enos

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Disc 1—Central Avenue Swing; Dameron Stomp; A La Bridges; 400 Swing; Heaven’s Doors Are Open Wide; Dig It; Keep Rockin’; Society Steps Out; My Dream; Rock and Ride; Take ‘Um. Disc 2—Our Delight; Lady Bird; Soultrane; Cool Breeze; A Blue Time; Handy Andy (Gnid); I Think I’ll Go Away; Smooth as the Wind; Mating Call; Super Jet; The Squirrel.

Article: Album Review

Kent Engelhardt & Stephen Enos: Madd For Tadd

Read "Madd For Tadd" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
September 26, 2023

The masterworks on this second edition of Madd for Tadd are presented on two discs, one of which bears the name of one of composer/pianist Tadd Dameron's classic themes, “Our Delight." Oddly, the other is named for the only non-Dameronian item on the menu, “Central Avenue Swing," written by saxophonist and Dameron chronicler Kent Engelhardt who ...

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Off Brand

By Daniel Bruce

Label: New Focus Recordings
Released: 2020
Track listing: For Manny; Free #2; Inner Androids; Free #5; Adaptation Dance; Free #8; Open Glimpse; Hard Boiled Donut; Quartet for Bela (I-IV).