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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

Monk Con Clave

By Carlos Henriquez

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: 'Round Midnight; I Mean You; El Son de Teo; San Juan Hill; Ugly Beauty; Evidence of Four and One; Raise Four; Green Chimney; Who Knows; Plena Azul / Blue Monk.

Cat & The Hounds

By Colin Hancock

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2025
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.

Carlos Henriquez: Monk Con Clave

by Pierre Giroux
June 6, 2026

Carlos Henriquez has long understood that rhythm tells stories long before words arrive. On Monk Con Clave, he takes Thelonious Monk's angular brilliance and brings it back to the streets, dance halls, and other crowded spaces across New York's Afro-Caribbean neighbourhoods. The result is not merely a tribute album but a living dialogue between Monk's genius ...

Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds Featuring Catherine Russell: Cat & The Hounds

by Pierre Giroux
September 3, 2025

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

By Etienne Charles

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
May 1, 2024

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
December 2, 2022

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 ...

Dear Love

By Jazzmeia Horn

Label: Empress Legacy Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: I Feel You Near; Be Perfect (Vocal Interlude); He Could Be Perfect; He's My Guy; Let Us (Take Our Time); Back To Me (Vocal Interlude); Lover Come Back To Me; Money Can't Buy Me, Love; Nia; Strive (Vocal Interlude); Strive (To Be); Where We Are; Judah Rise; Where Is Freedom!?.

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?