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Eric Halvorson

Based in Brooklyn, NY, Eric has been active on the New York City music scene for over 20 years. He has performed with such jazz artists as John Fedchock, Dave Liebman, Bob Sheppard, Dave Stryker, Steve Slagle, Vic Juris, Adam Rogers, Joe Locke, Bruce Barth, Marilyn Maye, Fred Hersch, Mark Murphy, James Moody, and Bill Henderson; Broadway stars Christine Ebersole and Sherie Rene Scott; songwriter and pianist Marvin Hamlisch; soul singer Ben E. King; blues artist George Kilby Jr. and the legendary Pinetop Perkins to name a few. He has toured internationally with vocalist Ute Lemper and also works with many big bands including Josh Shneider's 'Love Speaks Orchestra', the Bill Warfield Repertory Big Band, and the George Gee Big Band

Into The Shadows

By John Fedchock

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: RSVP; Alpha Dog; Manaus; I Should Care; Nature Boy; Into The Shadows; Star Eyes; On The Edge.

John Fedchock NY Sextet: Into The Shadows

by Jack Bowers
July 29, 2020

If a sextet--or a group of any size--is to be measured by the sum of its parts, trombonist John Fedchock's NY Sextet succeeds with flying colors, as it embodies half a dozen of the finest jazz musicians the New York City area has to offer. As we know, however, an inclusive appraisal rests on far more ...

John Fedchock NY Sextet: Into The Shadows

by Dan Bilawsky
July 19, 2020

Trombonist John Fedchock's fluid slide work, celebrated composing chops and arranger's ingenuity have been put to good use in settings both large and very small in recent years, with a big band set and two live quartet records dropping between 2015 and the present. But rather than choose one of those ensemble formats over the other ...

Kelley Suttenfield: When We Were Young: Kelley Suttenfield Sings Neil Young

by Troy Dostert
October 18, 2019

Although most jazz vocalists would shy away from an album's worth of rock tunes penned by Neil Young, Kelley Suttenfield tackles the task with aplomb on When We Were Young, providing skillful renditions of eleven cuts ranging from the well-known to a couple of the most obscure of Young's compositions. Suttenfield's low-key, insouciant delivery is a ...

Vocalist Kelley Suttenfield Reimagines Neil Young On When We Were Young: Kelley Suttenfield Sings Neil Young

September 3, 2019

Kelley Suttenfield is a versatile jazz singer with a warm, intimate voice that’s perfect for her newest project, When We Were Young – Kelley Suttenfield Sings Neil Young (September 13, 2019). The album includes some of Neil Young’s most famous songs, as well as a couple of tunes written but never performed by him. Tackling songs ...

Chris Jentsch Group No Net: Topics in American History

by Jack Bowers
February 8, 2019

Brooklyn-based guitarist / composer Chris Jentsch writes with clear images in mind and invites the listener to see and hear them as he does. On his sixth and latest CD, Jentsch draws on a longstanding interest in historical events and trends to describe in musical terms Topics in American History ranging from 1491 (the year before ...

Kayo Hiraki: Manhattan Sunset

by Mike Jurkovic
April 13, 2018

Like a fine lemon sorbet, Manhattan Sunset, the sixth album from pianist and veteran NY presence Kayo Hiraki, is that refreshing, necessary pause between courses that enables you to fully enjoy the vast jazz menu. With an airy, elegant touch, tangible zeal and seasoned respect for her art, Hiraki leads her tried-and-true sidemen, bassist ...

Dream Ago

By Gabrielle Stravelli

Label: Big Modern Music
Released: 2017
Track listing: Dream Dancing, Cole Porter Cake of My Childhood, Gabrielle Stravelli & Pat O'Leary Little Zochee, Pat O'Leary & Gabrielle Stravelli Where Is The Song?, Bob Dorough If Only Love Was Blind, Gabrielle Stravelli Didn't You Tell Me, Gabrielle Stravelli, Jason Robinson & Pat O'Leary Bicycle Blues, Ray Gallon, Pat O'Leary, Gabrielle Stravelli and Jason Robinson It Might As Well Be Spring, Rodgers & Hammerstein Dream Ago, Gabrielle Stravelli & Pat O'Leary Prism, Gabrielle Stravelli & Pat O'Leary More, Gabrielle Stravelli Now I Know, Gabrielle Stravelli, Pat O'Leary & Jason Robinson

Chris Biesterfeldt: Urban Mandolin

by C. Michael Bailey
November 18, 2013

Bluegrass instruments like the mandolin, banjo, and fiddle have long been associated genres outside of the high lonesome. This instrumentation has also permeated the jazz and classical worlds as evidenced by the lifetimes of David Grisman, Chris Thile, Bela Fleck, Vassar Clements, Joe Venuti, Bob Wills and on and on. Mandolinist Chris Biesterfeldt places himself in ...