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Dayna Stephens
Since the release of his 2007 disc, The Timeless Now (CTA), Dayna Stephens has emerged as one of his generation’s most distinguished modern jazz tenor saxophonists and composers. He hones a sinewy yet supple tone that unfurl poised improvisations with melodic ingenuity. As a composer, Stephens continues to build a multifaceted oeuvre filled with pieces that are cinematic in dynamic scope as they incorporate and suspenseful dialogue and interplay. In addition to establishing himself as a leading early 21st century jazz voice, Stephens has collaborated with an impressive array of jazz musicians, including pianists Brad Mehldau, Taylor Eigsti, Muhal Richard Abrams, Kenny Barron, Theo Hill, Gerald Clayton and Aaron Parks; drummers Brian Blade, Al Foster, Idris Muhammad, Marvin “Boogaloo” Smith, Eric Harland, Matt Slocum and Justin Brown; trumpeters Roy Hargrove, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Michael Rodriguez; saxophonists Jaleel Shaw, Ben Wendel, Chris Potter, John Ellis and Walter Smith III; bassist Kiyoshi Kitagawa, Joe Sanders, Linda Oh, Doug Weiss and Larry Grenadier; vocalists Gretchen Parlato, Becca Stevens and Sachal Vasandani; guitarists Julian Lage, Lage Lund and Charles Altura. The New York Times heralded Stephens as a “must see,” and wrote, “Everything flows with unusual fluency and makes you feel rewarded,” regarding his improvisational facilities
Closer Than We Think
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Bubbly; The Nomad; Ryland; Scrutiny; Placate; E.S.P.; A New Spring; TE; Blue Poles; Bach
Home; Placate (reprise).
The Baggage Room Vol.2 – Meanwhile
Label: Via Veneto Jazz
Released: 2025
Track listing: Timeless Threads; Chasing the Flicker; Meanwhile; Entr’Acte #1; Embracing the Question; Distance; Entr’Acte #2; Savoring Life’s Journey; Half Dreaming; Entr’Acte; Echoes of the Past.
Best Life Now
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Best Life Now; Call Me (feat. Dayna Stephens); Right On Time (feat. Gretchen Parlato); Stay A Little Bit Longer;
Incredible Kindness; Don't Give Up On Me; What's New; Tyrannosaur; Sometimes I Miss (feat. Nate Smith); Too
Easy; Blame Love.
Childlike
By Varun Das
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: This Peculiar Land; Childlike; Top Of The Mountain;
Afar; Inner Circle; Steering With One; Ocean Through
A Lens; Make A Move
Monk'D
Label: Contagious Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Brake's Sake; Humph; Coming On The Hudson; Just You And Me Smoking The Evidence; Ugly
Beauty; Stuffy Turkey; Hornin' In; Ruby My Dear; Monk'D.
Quartets and Solos
Label: Contagious Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Welcome Home; Fast Slow; The Most Beautiful One; Late Stage Epiphany; Snap Pop; To Speak
or Sing Softly; To Swim Below; Casual Friday; The Mayor of Malibu; To Remain Alive; To Dance
Underground; The Hawk; Dogwood.
Tides
Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Little B's Poem; Low Gravity; Peace of Constance; My Ideal; Salted Sweets; Suspense and Certainty; Simple
Task; The Gypsy; One of These Days.
Crossfade
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: The High Priestess; Photogenic Memory; Austin Otto; Stick Your Neck Out; Thousand
Yard Stare; Waterfall; Solstice; Skipping Stones; Whirlpool; Lennox Avenue.
Emiliano D'Auria: The Baggage Room Vol.2 – Meanwhile
by Angelo Leonardi
Meanwhile è il secondo capitolo del progetto The Baggage Room, la svolta espressiva del pianista marchigiano, che fonde la vivacità ritmica e timbrica del jazz contemporaneo statunitense con l'impronta melodica già espressa nello Jano Quartet. Registrato a Monaco di Baviera nel novembre 2024, l'album conferma la presenza del trombettista Philip Dizack e del sassofonista ...
