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Chris Smith
Based in New York City, Chris Smith has performed with a diverse group of jazz musicians including the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Dick Oatts, Frank Wess, Ryan Kisor, Jay Anderson, Donny McCaslin, and Tony Malaby. His drumming has been featured in venues such as The Village Vanguard, Blue Note, Telluride Jazz Festival, and Smalls. Chris maintains a performance schedule in NYC while also performing throughout the country. Dedicated to jazz research, his latest book The View from the Back of the Band: The Life and Music of Mel Lewis is available in hardcover and e-book through the University of North Texas Press
Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller
Label: Birdland Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Storybook; Water Lily; Tenderly; Chorale and Alleluia; Sail Away; WTF; Close Your Eyes;
Concierto de Aranjuez/Spain; The Doubledown; Nonsense.
The Birdland Big Band: Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller
by Jack Bowers
Storybook, the third recording by the New York City-based Birdland Big Band, is subtitled “the music of Mark Miller" and is designed to showcase compositions and arrangements by that multi-talented artist who doubles (triples) as the band's lead trombonist. Miller wrote or co-wrote half of the album's 10 colorful and impressive numbers (11 if one counts ...
Joe Lovano, Kandace Springs, Beatle Jazz & Patrick Zimmerli
by Joe Dimino
Kicking off the 907th episode of Neon Jazz, we dive into the brilliant mind of composer, innovator, and jazz visionary Patrick Zimmerli, spinning tracks from his bold new 2025 release, Songs of Innocence. From there, it's a sonic journey through the freshest corners of modern jazz--featuring new gems from heavy hitters like Marina Pacowski, Michael Waldrop, ...
Nasheet Waits, Sasha Berliner, Nels Cline and the Premazzi-Nasser Quartet!
by Hobart Taylor
This week's show features the intricate melodies of the Premazzi-Nasser Quartet, new music from guitarist Rez Abbasi, Sasha Berliner, Norwegian trumpeter Arve Henriksen and the latest from Nasheet Waits. Playlist Premazzi-Nasser Quartet “Raoul Blues" from From What I Recall (OA2) 0:00 Nasheet Waits “Snake Hip Waltz" from New York Love Letter (Bitter Sweet) (Giant ...
Sean Nelson's New London Big Band: Social Hour
by Chris M. Slawecki
"For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to have my own big band--an epic jazz orchestra of 17+ musicians," writes trombonist Sean Nelson in the liner notes to this set named for the 17-piece New London Big Band's home base, The Social Bar + Kitchen in New London, Connecticut. Nelson, also a ...
Freaks in Mayberry & the Boney Oscar Stomp
by Chris M. Slawecki
Giuseppe Paradiso & Meridian 71 Parallel Dimensions Ubuntu Music 2022 Parallel Dimensions steers the listener's imagination through a luxurious multicultural tapestry woven in music by drummer, vocalist, composer, arranger and producer Giuseppe Paradiso and his sextet. It explores broad musical horizons that can sound radiantly bright ...
Look Out!
Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: 1. Look Out! [5:01]
2. The Kingpin [5:51]
3. For the Throne* [6:24]
4. BHM [4:29]
5. Once Upon A Time [6:08]
6. Whistle Blower [5:08]
7. Willie's Willin' [5:42]
8. See You There! [5:30]
The Kingpin
Album: Look Out!
By Andrew Gutauskas
Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2020
Duration: 05:54
New York Japanese Jazz Festival 2019
by Peter Jurew
New York Japanese Jazz Festival Smoke Jazz & Supper Club New York, NY June 25-27, 2019 The Japanese people's love for jazz, rock, blues and other forms of music with African-American roots has been well established for decades. Working bands and musicians at all levels of fame regularly make the Land ...
