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Dion Tucker
Dion Tucker is an accomplished trombonist, composer, and music educator with an oeuvre that defies genre. Boston-born and Miami-bred, Dion moved to New York in 1998 to study at The New School under the tutelage of pioneering trombonists Benny Powell and Steve Turre, among others. In 2001, he had the privilege of touring with the rock band Matchbox 20, and was lead trombonist in The Duke Ellington Orchestra from 2003 until 2013. Since 2007, Dion has been a member of The Harry Connick, Jr. Big Band and has had the unique opportunity to perform with Harry for President Barack Obama at the 2012 Governors Ball, at the Papal Mass for Pope Benedict at Yankee Stadium in 2008, as lead trombonist in the 2011 Broadway revival of “On A Clear Day,” and as trombonist in the 2018 stage adaptation of the Academy Award winning film, “The Sting,” performed at the historic Paper Mill Playhouse. As an educator, Dion has taught in over 20 New York City public schools through the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz For Young People program and was a faculty member at Jazz House Kids, a music education program in New Jersey fronted by Christian McBride
Cat & The Hounds
Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Panama Limited Blues; Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home); Telephoning Blues;
You've Got Everything a Sweet Mama Needs But Me; Gupsy Blues (Intro.
Serenade Blues); Elevator Papa,Switchboard Mama; West Indies Blues;
Everybody Mess Around; Goin' Crazy With the Blues; Crazy Blues; Carolina
Shout; Sweet Man.
Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds Featuring Catherine Russell: Cat & The Hounds
by Pierre Giroux
Catherine Russell teams up with Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds for the release Cat & The Hounds, a recording exploring the roots of Black popular music from the early 1920s. Far from simply nostalgic, the project acts as a lively revival of an evolving art form, balancing the syncopated ragtime style and blues-infused improvisations that defined the ...
Creole Orchestra Featuring René Marie
Label: Culture Shock Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Old School; Poison; Think Twice; I Wanna Be Evil; Holy City; Ten to One Is Murder; Centerpiece; Douens; A Shade of Jade; Colorado River Song; Stompin' at the Savoy; Take My Breath Wway; Night Train.
Introducing Baritone Saxophonist Evan Gongora
by Sanford Josephson
Evan Gongora's father, Oscar, is a classical saxophonist and Founder and Director of The Vitral Saxophone Quartet. “So," recalled the 18-year-old Evan, “he put a saxophone in my mouth at a very early age." Evan “fell in love with the baritone saxophone. I loved the sound. I always listened for all the low sounds, songs built ...
Introducing Pianist Samvit Prem Singhal
by Sanford Josephson
Growing up in Delhi, India, Samvit Prem Singhal always had a love for jazz, although he played classical piano. “I was playing piano since I was three years old," he recalled. “I started playing Indian classical music. Then, I transitioned into western classical music. But my dad had some jazz CDs, and, in the back of ...
Early Blue Evening
By Andy Farber
Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2021
Track listing: Don’t Tell Me What to Do; Feet and Frames; The Holidaymakers; Aircheck; Early Blue
Evening; Fanfare on Fairfax; Cork Grease and Valve Oil; Portrait of Joe Temperley;
Symphony for Doctor “T”; Theme from The Odd Couple; How Am I to Know?
It's All Your Fault
By Mike LeDonne
Label: Savant Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: It’s All Your Fault; Matador; Rock with You; Still; Party Time; Bags and Brown; Biggest Part
of Me; Blues for Jed.
Andy Farber and His Orchestra: Early Blue Evening
by Jack Bowers
Saxophonist Andy Farber's New York-based orchestra came together and cut its teeth as the onstage band for three hundred performances of After Midnight, a Broadway revue that paid tribute to Jazz Age nightclub luminaries from Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie to Harold Arlen, Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh. As one might presume from the ...
Eddie Allen: Push
by Everett R. Davis
Seasoned trumpeter, composer and educator Eddie Allen's highly awaited Push is a mix of mainstream jazz with generous sprinklings of urban flavors and reggae thrown into the mix. Allen and the excellent group of musicians he assembled for this release is simply riveting, with pure jazz and catchy flowing rhythms from start to finish. Allen states ...
