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Chris Rogers
CHRIS ROGERS has performed throughout Europe, Japan, South America and the United States as a featured soloist with many top artists in Jazz and Latin music. At age 19 he began a five-year association with Jazz giant Gerry Mulligan, replacing Tom Harrell as the primary trumpet soloist with the Concert Jazz Band. He's also gigged and/or recorded with luminaries such as Buddy Rich, Maria Schneider, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Frank Sinatra, Chaka Khan, Eddie Palmieri, The Mingus Big Band, Ray Barretto, Mel Torme, Mel Lewis and The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Hilton Ruiz, Lionel Hampton, Mercer Ellington, Richie Beirach, Bob Moses, Tom Harrell, Arturo O'Farrill, Eartha Kitt, Lee Konitz, and Mongo Santamaria (as both trumpeter and pianist.) Chris was born in New York City in the early sixties to a family of musicians
Mixed Bag
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: From This Moment On; Rebecca; The Dark Hours; Lilac Blues; Down the Rabbit Hole; Body
and Soul; So in Love; Django; ‘Round Midnight; The Sly Fox (in Memory of Bill Holman);
Where Do You Start?
Pete McGuinness: Mixed Bag
by Pierre Giroux
With Mixed Bag, Pete McGuinness once again affirms his place among the elite of modern big band composers and arrangers, presenting a luminous tapestry of jazz idioms that ranges from the exuberantly traditional to the adventurously modern. As the title suggests, the album is a delightful potpourri. However, rather than feeling scattered or unfocused, McGuinness weaves ...
The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: Mixed Bag
by Jack Bowers
Award-winning arranger Pete McGuinness has chosen to name the fourth recording by his stellar New York-based Jazz Orchestra Mixed Bag, a term whose meaning may be construed as positive or less so, depending on the context. As he explains in the album's liner notes, McGuinness accentuates the positive, writing that to him, “Variety has always been ...
America at War
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: March on Washington; Yellowcake; My Father in Nagasaki; The Vultures of Afghanistan; Requiem for an Unknown; Soldier; Gratitude; Honor Song; Day After Tomorrow; Stupid, Pointless, Heartless Drug Wars.
Lisa Maxwell's Jazz Orchestra: Shiny!
by Jack Bowers
Lisa Maxwell, whose album Shiny! marks the recorded debut of her New York City-based Jazz Orchestra, is a pretty good composer and a very good arranger, even though several of her charts lean toward funk / rock, admittedly an acquired taste. Once she veers away from those two-beat cadences, as on “Ludie," “The Craw," “Hello, Wayne?" ...
50th Anniversary Blue Notes – August edition
by Marc Cohn
During last month's Blue Note anniversary show we ran out of time. So this week we catch up with a Hank Mobley session for Blue Note from July 31, 1970 (well, that date was 'almost-August' anyway), after opening the show with mostly twenty-first century music. Then, it's on to Grant Green, live in Newark and Wayne ...
Big Beat: Sounds Good, Feels Good
by Jack Bowers
So what can be reported about Big Beat, an eighteen-piece ensemble from New Jersey whose debut album, Sounds Good, Feels Good, is more pop / rock than jazz, more “hip / contemporary" than straight-ahead / traditional? First, that the band certainly Sounds Good as a unit, skating easily through an assortment of backbeat-heavy themes that consist ...
Bitches Brew @ 50, Sonny Rollins with Brownie & Max (& More)
by Marc Cohn
This week we have recent music from Akiko Tsuruga (her best yet!), Pierre Dorge, Chris Rogers, Anthony Fung and Conrad Herwig. But the big news is that Bitches Brew was recorded in August, 1969 over three days. This week we offer the sessions recorded on August 19, 1969. The edit log for the title track (on ...
The Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra: Along for the Ride
by Jack Bowers
On the third album as leader of his superlative New York-based Jazz Orchestra, trombonist Pete McGuinness proves again that he is one of the more astute and resourceful composer / arrangers on the scene today. From “Put on a Happy Face" through “One for the Maestro," McGuinness' impressive charts are decorous models of warmth and perception. ...
