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Clark Sommers is a Grammy Award winning bassist steeped in the jazz tradition. Sommers, born September 7th, 1977, raised in Lake Forest, Illinois, is an artist dedicated to cultivating his own unique sound by expanding on the work of past masters while keeping an ear towards the future. Over the last 15 years Clark has performed all over the world and is featured on more than 40 albums with renowned artists such as Kurt Elling, Cedar Walton, Ernie Watts, The Mighty Blue Kings, Marilyn McCoo, Marvin Hamlisch, Kevin Mahogany, Peter Bernstein, Michael Weiss, Ira Sullivan, Frank Wess and Charles McPherson among others

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Colours

By Kenny Reichert

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Colours; Belmont; Holes In The Dirt; The Prairie; Yin; Simi

Album

Climbing

By Josh Achiron

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Troubles Become Triumphs; The Papaya King; The Only Way Is Through; Climbing; Mean Machine; The Pain That Hurts; The Pain That Alters; Take The Coltrane.

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Threefold

By Chris Madsen

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Digital Harvest; Shadow People; Mads; Hidden Message; Dream Music; Revolving Door; Man of Action; Buyer's Remorse.

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WaBaSH

By Clark Sommers

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Points of Reduction; Close the Loop; Bass Intro I; Kasbah; Group Solitude; Contemplation; In Your Own Sweet Way; Bass Intro II; That Was Then; Ornette-Type-Tune.

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Solitary Moon

By Tommy Muellner

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: While We're Young; Like Someone In Love; Sandt's Samba (Ahma's Garden); The Wind; I Remember You; Soldier In The Rain; Cuz Tune; Oceans In The Sky; Monk See, Monk Do; Make Someone Happy; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Solitary Moon (aka Moon Song); Somewhere; Diane / Danny Boy; Why Did I Choose You.

Article: Album Review

Tommy Muellner: Solitary Moon

Read "Solitary Moon" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 15, 2026

Today's hipster jazz musicians do not play standards. Perhaps “poseur" is a better description for artists who deliberately eschew classic compositions. Yet standards and familiar songs serve an important purpose in jazz: they provide a shared musical language, a lingua franca through which musicians communicate and listeners can measure the quality of an interpretation. Maybe, just ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Miki Yamanaka, Stefon Harris, Paul Yonemura, Amber Weeks and more

by Benjamin Boddie
August 20, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Miki Yamanaka, Stefon Harris & Blackout, Paul Yonemura, Amber Weekes, Jeremy Monteiro Organ Quartet, Steve Rawlins, Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band, Nicoleyvette, Joyce E Tutty Moreno & Adrian Young, Mike Jones, Richard Baratta, Rich Willey, Goldings Bernstein Stewart, Denise Donatelli, Senri Oe, Bob Nell & Michael Bisio, Jun Iida, La ...

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Caesar Frazier, Goldings Bernstein Stewart, Somi, Mike Clark and more

by Benjamin Boddie
August 12, 2026

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Caesar Frazier, Clark Sommers, Goldings Bernstein Stewart, Somi, Adrian Younge, Mike Clark, Arman Sangalang, John Clayton, Haruna Fukazawa, Jae Sinnett, Carlos Henriquez, Malcolm Strachan, Reid Hoyson Project, Sarah Sharp, Suzanne Pittson, Bevan Manson, Michael Dease Big Band, Conrad Herwig, Lisa Rich, Andrew Kim, Nicolas Payton, Zaccai Curtis, Emmet Cohen, Nduduzo ...

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Clark Sommers: WaBaSH

by Jack Bowers
August 7, 2026

Wabash is the name of a river in Indiana and Illinois, an avenue in Chicago and, what is most relevant to this recording, the name of the quartet that performs on the avenue, a respectable group led by bassist Clark Sommers. Sommers' WaBaSH ensemble varies from the quartet norm in that two of its ...