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Nicole Zuraitis: How Love Begins

Read "How Love Begins" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
August 25, 2023

Love is not for the faint of heart. Its tides are unpredictable, bound to different souls, intensifying and ebbing in parallel to the feelings and favors of each individual who exerts their gravitational pull on an evolving romance. Musically charting those waters--depicting the full scope of that sea through song--is no simple feat. Yet some supreme ...

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A Lotus in the Mud

By Yu Nishiyama

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Retrospections; Time Is Money; I Can’t Imagine a Happy Life without You; Honorary Whites; Skylark; A Lotus in the Mud.

Article: Live Review

Indie Collaborative Interfaith Holiday Concert Brings Diversity of Independent Artists to the Limelight

by Jose Manuel de Jesus
December 17, 2021

The Indie Collaborative Bruno Walter Auditorium New York, NY December 8, 2021 Producer and Co-founder Eileen Sherman started the evening December 8th, at the Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center by promising a show like no other in terms of diversity of styles, races, religion and talent. The Indie Collaborative did ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five with Thomas Manuel of The Jazz Loft

by AAJ Staff
August 17, 2021

Meet Thomas Manuel Jazz historian, music educator and cornet player Dr. Thomas Manuel holds the endowed Artist in Residence chair within the Jazz department at Stony Brook University. In addition to this he serves as a trustee to the Frank Melville Memorial Foundation, is a member of the Huntington Arts Council Decentralization Advisory Committee, and is ...

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All Wandering Hearts

By Nicole Zuraitis

Label: Dot Time Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Make It Flood; The Way Home; I Would Die 4 U; Overdrive Mind; What a Wonderful World; Gold; Sugar Spun Girl; Rock Bottom; Lullabye; Send Me on My Way.

Article: Album Review

Nicole Zuraitis: All Wandering Hearts

Read "All Wandering Hearts" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
July 24, 2020

Nicole Zuraitis has a heart full of soul and a voice full of sunshine. She's got a mix of things on her mind with her fourth album, everyday themes and weighty matters alike, and yet they ultimately come out sounding exuberant in her hands. The fundamental optimism is one key asset of All Wandering Hearts, even ...

About Dan Pugach

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Musician

Dan Pugach

Dan Pugach is a GRAMMY® Award-winning drummer and composer, a 5X GRAMMY® nominee, 2X ASCAP Foundation Jazz Composer Award winner, a recipient of the BMI Charlie Parker Composition Prize/Manny Albam Commission for Big Band and a participant at the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency Program at the Kennedy Center. He is a 2025 Chamber Music America “New Jazz Works” Grantee.

His latest album, Bianca Reimagined: Music for Paws and Persistence (2024), featuring Nicole Zuraitis, won the 2025 GRAMMY® Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. Additionally, he was the featured drummer on the 2024 GRAMMY® Award-winning album How Love Begins, co-produced by Nicole Zuraitis and Christian McBride. His debut album, Dan Pugach Nonet - Plus One (2018), reached the top 20 in Jazz radio and earned a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocal for “Jolene” alongside Zuraitis.

Article: Year in Review

2019: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 2, 2020

The year 2019 was robust in many ways. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to Australia. An important but long-shuttered jazz mecca was revived in a coast-to-coast move. ECM Records celebrated a golden year. The music and its makers figured prominently on the big screen. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four new NEA ...

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Leo Sherman: Tonewheel

Read "Tonewheel" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
December 9, 2019

Bassist Leo Sherman knows a thing or two about turns in tone connected to life, time, language and music. Born in Russia, in a repressive, antisemitic atmosphere that eventually drove his family from their homeland, he overcame several layers of adversity some 5,000 miles away, where he was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. There, he became fluent ...

Article: Album Review

Dan Pugach: Plus One

Read "Plus One" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
August 27, 2019

Ci giunge con un po' di ritardo questo debutto del batterista e arrangiatore israeliano Dan Pugach ma va segnalato per testimoniare l'ottimo momento del jazz orchestrale. Trasferitosi negli Stati Uniti per frequentare il Berklee College of Music, Pugach è appassionato della scuola orchestrale mainstream e s'è perfezionato al City College di New York studiando con Hal ...