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2025 Year in Review by the Numbers: The Magnificent Seven and the Pluralism of Taste

by Marek J. Śmietański
February 17, 2026

My Journey From Sports Analytics to Counting Jazz I've always had a soft spot for statistics and rankings--especially those that try to say something more than just “what people like." This is probably a result of my rigorous mathematical-informatics education and the scientific research I conducted over a dozen years ago on classification and ranking methods ...

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City Life: Music of Gregg Hill

By Michael Dease

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Disc 1 (Trio): Willow Walks In; City Life; Danger Zone; Movie Theme; Sweet Georgia Gillespie; Double Bill; Claxilever; Catalyst; Say Whaaat!?; Movie Theme (Reprise). Disc 2 (Quintet): Tea Time; The Classic II; Grave Concerns; Mr. Hurt; Rainy Afternoon; Enigma; Skittles; Blues for Herb; Lafayette Square.

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Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

by Dan McClenaghan
December 3, 2025

The albums on this Best of the Year list were picked on the run, as the months unfolded. Sometimes, second-guessing comes into play at the time of compilation. Not this time. All of these recordings are worthy of being called the Best of 2025. Andrew HillA Beautiful Day, Revisited Palmetto ...

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Movie Theme

July 27, 2025

Album: City Life: Music of Gregg Hill
By Michael Dease
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 04:53

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Michael Dease: City Life: Music of Gregg Hill

Read "City Life: Music of Gregg Hill" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch
June 24, 2025

Michigan-based composer Gregg Hill is on a remarkable roll, authoring an impressive run of compositions represented on eight albums released on the Origin Records label. Each has featured a bandleader associated with the top shelf staff at Rodney Whitaker's jazz program at Michigan State University. City Life (2025) is the third under the leadership of trombone ...

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Michael Dease: City Life: Music of Gregg Hill

Read "City Life: Music of Gregg Hill" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
June 21, 2025

Jazz trios featuring a horn, bass and drums get right to the core of musical expression. With, most commonly, a saxophone--see Sonny Rollins' blueprint for the horn and trio setting, the 1957 Contemporary Records album Way Out West--the music flows freely. The players do not need to chase chords around. The result is a stretching of ...