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Clark Sommers
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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
Breathe
By Chris Varga
Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Durantula; Breathe; Lid; Framing The Dragon; Passing Remark; This System Of Things; TMI;
Gentle Vicissitudes.
Someone to Someone
By Jon Irabagon
Label: Irabbagast Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Someone to Someone; Buggin' The Bug; Malört Is My Shepherd; At What Price Garlic; Tiny Miracles (at a
Funeral for a Friend); The Pulseman.
Hours Fly, Flowers Die
By Jimmy Farace
Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Growing Pains; Ferson Creek; Prophetic Dreams; Directionally Challenged; My Ship; Signs
of Spring; Hours Fly, Flowers Die; Single Petal of a Rose; Backyard Bobcat.
PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone
by Glenn Astarita
Jon Irabagon's PlainsPeak delivers a soulful homecoming via a love letter to Chicago with its debut, Someone to Someone. Ditching the tech-heavy sprawl of his earlier work like Server Farm (Irabbagast, 2025), the leader returns to Chicago's gritty roots with a lean acoustic quartet that is all heart and sly wit. Irabagon, a Chicago-born ...
Jon Irabagon / PlainsPeak: Someone to Someone
by Jack Kenny
Jon Irabagon is a musician whose complexity is both exhilarating and daunting. His restless energy, deep self-reflection, remarkable achievements and sharp intellect combine to create a figure who constantly provokes questions--about music, originality and the very nature of artistic expression. In 2011, Irabagon undertook a bold experiment: With Mostly Other People Do The Killing, ...
Several Worthwhile Releases from the Last Few Months
by Jerome Wilson
Despite what is said about physical media going away, a steady supply of new jazz releases keeps showing up every week. Here are some worthy if underappreciated albums from the first half of 2025. Tobias Meinhart Sonic River Self Produced 2025 “Sonic River" is a good description ...
Chris Varga: Breathe
by Jack Bowers
It is always refreshing to hear a talented vibraphonist seducing the mallets while leading a band, as is true on Breathe, Chris Varga's second recording, and the first in the U.S., following 2023's Vichara on South Korea's Mung Music label. Varga, who has been living and performing in Seoul for more than two decades, returned “home" ...
Old Souls
By Neal Alger
Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Old Souls; This is Not a Test;
Place de la Republique;
Go with the Sco-Flow;
Moment Intro;
If Only for a Moment;
Choro Delinquente;
Dance of the Miscreants;
Softly She Sings.
From Here, From There
By Andy Baker
Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Close Your Eyes; From Here, From There; A Flower is a Lovesome Thing; Skylark; Blues for VDB;
First, Second,
Third; Kaper; Softly; The State of the Estate.
