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Doug MacDonald: Sextet Session

by Jack Bowers
Guitarist Doug MacDonald records albums like someone who is either making up for lost time or does not have much time to spare. According to his discography, Sextet Session is at least the thirty-second album MacDonald has led or co-led, almost half of which have been released in the past couple of years or so. To ...
New Releases From Ernesto Cervini, Gary Urwin, Charles Pillow, And More

by Bob Osborne
On this show we present new releases from Ernesto Cervini, Gary Urwin, Charles Pillow, Last Oak Out, Ayumi Ishito, Doug MacDonald, Joe Webb, Gui Duvignau, Ivo Perelman with Barry Guy & Ramon Lopez, Jason Stein with Marilyn Crispell Damon Smith & Adam Shead, Klaus Kugel & Pavel Hruby, Recabarren Menares Vazquez, Bobby Wellins, and, Yes! Trio. ...
Joel Ross, Pat Metheny & Francesco Crosara

by Joe Dimino
From the talented Italian-born, Seattle-based pianist Francesco Crosara, we start the 842nd Episode of Neon Jazz with the title track off his album Circular Motion. From there, we get into an inspiration of his in Chick Corea's Return to Forever. Also, new music from Joel Ross, Doug MacDonald and Mike LeDonne. We close out the hour ...
Edwin Alley

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Zoot and Pepper; Eyow/This Is It; Benedetto’s Theme; Three for Two; Groove Blues; JT; Rapini;
Tuned Out; You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To.
Overtones

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Night by Night; Bossa for PK; Blues by Eight; Hortense; Lover Man; Over #21; Ground Up;
Rickey Speaking.
Big Band Extravaganza

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Toluca Lake Jazz; Rashomon; Luces Azules; Aventura en Triadas; Desert Jazz; Luz de Amour;
De Ha; But Not for Me; Minor Mess; Ya Know Bill.
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2023

by Jack Bowers
2023 was another banner year for jazz of all shapes and sizes. It has been a pleasure to review so many splendid big-band albums along with wonderful enterprises by smaller groups, some of which were recording for the first time (hopefully, not the last). If this was a preview of things to come, we look forward ...
Doug MacDonald Trio: Edwin Alley

by Jack Bowers
Los Angeles-based guitarist Doug MacDonald, busy as ever, is comfortable in any setting, from big band to solo. On Edwin Alley, MacDonald leads a trio (Mike Flick, bass; Kendall Kay, drums) through eight of his bright and well-drawn original compositions and one standard, the amorous entreaty You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To." The album ...
Doug MacDonald: Big Band Extravaganza

by Richard J Salvucci
Some reviewers have been known to complain that contemporary big bands can do most anything but swing. Like all generalizations, there is some merit to the observation. But, like all generalizations, the occasional exception falsifies it. Looking for a big band that pushes all the right buttons? Look no further. Doug MacDonald's desert jazz" band is ...
Doug MacDonald: Big Band Extravaganza

by Jack Bowers
Pardon the superlative, but what a terrific album! Extravanga marks the debut of guitarist Doug MacDonald's seventeen-member Jazz Orchestra, and he has guaranteed that it swings with gusto by writing nine perceptive and luminous charts that are sure to bring out the best in any ensemble, especially one as well-equipped as this. During his decades-long career ...