Results for "David Bixler"

Geoffrey Keezer: On His Way to You

by David Bixler
May 12, 2021

As an 18 year-old, pianist Geoffrey Keezer wowed audiences as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with his prodigious technique and improvisations. Describing his own playing, Keezer says that his natural tendency is to “throw in everything but the kitchen sink... all the time." In this episode of LINER NOTES, Keezer talks about his development ...

Bob Hurst: Detroit In The House!

by David Bixler
March 10, 2021

Bassist and composer Robert Hurst made an early mark on the jazz community as a member of Wynton Marsalis' band and later gained notoriety as a member of the Tonight Show band led by Branford Marsalis. In addition to his performance career the Detroit native has been on the faculty at the University of Michigan for ...

Ryan Keberle & Dave Douglas: Music from the Times

by David Bixler
February 3, 2021

David Bixler: Inside the Grief

by Mike Jurkovic
February 2, 2021

Following his 2019 nonet offering, Blended Lineage (Red Piano), alto-saxophonist David Bixler, no stranger to the stress and strains of our collectively jagged, irregular days, sets out heroically to make sense of it all on Inside the Grief. And make sense of it all he does with six probing, conversational originals that manage to restore some ...

Sheryl Bailey: Shifting Gears

by David Bixler
January 27, 2021

Guitarist and educator Sheryl Bailey recently moved from New York to Boston to become the assistant chair of the guitar department at The Berklee College of Music. In this episode of Liner Notes Sheryl talks about the challenges of moving to a new city while overseeing the education of nine hundred guitarists in the time of ...

Gregg August: How To Have That Difficult Conversation

by David Bixler
January 3, 2021

Composer and Bassist Gregg August's Dialogues on Race was composed 10 years ago and was inspired by the election of Barack Obama combined with his discovery of the compelling story of Emmett Till. Now, a decade later a decision to step beyond the safety of the music was motivation to record it with the intention of ...

Frank Kimbrough: Disappearing in the music

by David Bixler
January 1, 2021

I was saddened to hear about the loss of Frank Kimbrough. I had the privilege of speaking with him in March of 2019 for LINER NOTES. I am sharing this episode from June of that year. A deep musician, he says at one point in the interview, that as opposed to striving for stardom, he just ...

Inside the Grief

By David Bixler

Label: Bixxlixx Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: What Does if Care?/I Spy Like Shosti 389 Inside the Grief Balm Vote!

Blended Lineage

By David Bixler

Label: Red Piano Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Blended Lineage pt 1 Origins Blended Lineage pt 2 Motherland Blended Lineage pt 3 Trenches Blended Lineage pt 4 My Soul Swoons Slowly

Ben Wendel: going forward with a High Heart

by David Bixler
December 11, 2020

High Heart is the latest release from tenor saxophonist Ben Wendel. In this episode of Liner Notes, Wendel discusses the creation of this music as well as the unique position he found himself in when air travel came to a grinding halt in March at the beginning of the pandemic. This episode features ...