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A world-class saxophonist, flutist, composer and educator, Don Braden’s jazz career has spanned over 40 years. He has toured the world with jazz greats Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Tony Williams, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes, Herbie Hancock and the Hancock Institute, and many others, and has performed in venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall, Saturday Night Live, Harvard University (where he studied Engineering as an undergrad), and countless jazz festivals and clubs. He has played on over 100 CDs as a sideman and has produced 23 as a leader, the most recent being his critically acclaimed Earth Wind and Wonder and the recently released In the Spirit of Herbie Hancock and Chemiatry, co-led with bassist Joris Teepe.

Article: Album Review

Alessandro Florio: Controra Avenue

Read "Controra Avenue" reviewed by Don Ball

by Don Ball
September 23, 2026

Jazz organ trios tend toward a funky, nitty-gritty sound, like a night out at a juke joint in Mississippi. Italian guitarist Alessandro Florio presents a different approach, much like lazing away on a warm, sunny day at a Mediterranean beach. Not that he cannot bring the groove when he wants, but Florio's album lives up to ...

Article: Album Review

Gregory Groover Jr.: Old Knew

by Jack Bowers
January 3, 2026

Even though he has surely heard this more than a few times, Gregory Groover is a pretty hip name for a jazz saxophonist. Not so much for the pastor of Boston's Charles Street AME Church, the position held by the Groover for whom he is named, Gregory Sr., who no doubt grooves in his own way. ...

Album

Blue Topaz

By Peter Hand

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2024
Track listing: Hand-Me-Down Blues; Cash or Charge; Bittersweet Morning; Pedro’s Samba; One for My Baby; Little Sunflower; Rosalyn; Blue Topaz; Lately; Curioso.

Album

Earth Wind and Wonder, Vol. 2

By Don Braden

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024

Article: Album Review

Peter Hand: Blue Topaz

Read "Blue Topaz" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 24, 2024

Peter Hand has a hand in almost everything on Blue Topaz, playing masterful guitar, writing seven of the album's ten engaging numbers and arranging all of them. He also spliced together a pair of blue-chip ensembles for his first small-group recording after three well-received big-band albums, and invited his longtime friend--and legendary tenor saxophonist--Houston Person to ...

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Song of the Day

Hand-Me-Down Blues

February 21, 2024

Album: Blue Topaz
By Peter Hand
Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2024
Duration: 6:44

Album

Standard-ized!

By Eric Goletz

Label: Consolidated Artists Productions
Released: 2023
Track listing: Now’s the Time; Just in Time; Caravan; Nutville; Nature Boy; Train Shuffle; Jungle Juice; Mayreh; The Summer Knows; Summertime; Sugar; Windmills of Your Mind; Overjoyed; Now’s the Time (outro).

News: Festival

2023 Annual West Orange Jazz Festival Returns To OSPAC on October 7

September 30, 2023

The Annual West Orange Jazz Festival is almost here! Saturday, October 7, 2023 1-8 pm at the Oskar Schindler Performing Arts Center located at 4 Boland Drive in West Orange NJ. We welcome you to enjoy world-class entertainment. We will be featuring 18-year-old “Jazz House” kid, star on the rise and recent recipient of the James ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

I Wished On The Moon - A Birthday Shoutout To Dorothy Parker Plus New Releases From Kris Davis, Don Braden, Miguel Zenon & Luis Perdomo

by Mary Foster Conklin
September 4, 2023

This broadcast includes new releases from Miguel Zenon & Luis Perdomo, Kris Davis Diatom Ribbons, Don Braden and Linda Purl, with birthday shoutouts to Dorothy Parker (I Wished On the Moon, How Am I To Know), Alice Coltrane, Vicki Burns, Nanny Assis, Mimi Fox, Nicky Schrire, Linda May Han Oh, among others. Thanks for listening and ...