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Evan Christopher combines virtuosity, immaculate taste, and enthusiasm with a commitment to exploring the full range of possibilities in the New Orleans clarinet tradition. His highly personal brand of “contemporary, early jazz” strives to extend the legacies of early Creole clarinetists such as Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard and Omer Simeon. Critics remarking on Christopher’s dynamic expressiveness have coined his style “close-encounter music” (NEW YORK TIMES) and have called his respect for the music traditions of New Orleans, “a triumph, joining the present seamlessly to a glorious past.” (THE OBSERVER, UK). His journey on Clarinet Road began in 1994, when he left his native California to join the New Orleans music community

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Jazz Dreams

By Kathy Ingraham

Label: Peirdon Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Dream On: House Of The Rising Sun: Little Things Redux: Melusina: Ruby Tuesday: Eli's Comin: Stairway To Heaven.

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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.

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Melusina

June 14, 2026

Album: Jazz Dreams
By Kathy Ingraham
Label: Peirdon Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 03:20

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Plays Duke: Contemporary Covers of Early Ellington Classics

by Larry Slater
March 20, 2026

Duke Ellington is unquestionably the most important and prolific jazz composer. He composed over 1,500 tunes and quite a few have become both jazz standards and part of Americana. Even folks who don't listen to jazz know Ellington tunes like “ It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing," “Mood Indigo" and “Caravan."

Article: Album Review

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

Read "Cat & The Hounds" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

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 ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

The Music of Hoagy Carmichael, Part 1

by Larry Slater
June 13, 2025

Hoagy Carmichael's career as one of America's great songwriters is unlike any of his peers. Carmichael, like George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin, was born at the tail end of the 19th century, but he was never a Broadway composer, and he wasn't from New York. He was a midwesterner from Indiana, drawn more to ...

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Live at the Ear Inn

By Jon-Erik Kellso

Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sleep; I’m Coming Virginia; No One Else But You; Indian Summer; Vignette; I Double Dare You; Back O’ Town Blues.

News: Performance / Tour

Jazz Power Initiative Kicks Off 20th Anniversary Season With The Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam Series

October 2, 2023

Jazz Power Initiative (JPI), an Inwood-based non-profit organization founded in 2003 with the mission of transforming lives through jazz music, arts education and performance, kicks off its 20th anniversary season with the acclaimed Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam series starting in October. Held twice-monthly, the Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam presents professional and emerging jazz artists with a ...

Article: Album Review

Jon-Erik Kellso and the EarRegulars: Live at the Ear Inn

Read "Live at the Ear Inn" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 31, 2023

As trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso and his EarRegulars had been performing every Sunday night for more than sixteen years at New York City's historic Ear Inn, Kellso reasoned it was time that one of their concerts should be recorded to share more broadly the fun and enthusiasm that animates every session. Once the ties had been bound, ...