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Album

Grit & Grace

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Be Normal; In Our Darkest Hour; Anita; Mama's Alright; Norhala; Uncertainty; Menina Sozinha; Virtual Reality; La Bruja; Coop's Condiments.

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NY/LA

By Darin Brown

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: NY/LA

Article: Album Review

Jennifer Wharton's Bonegasm: Grit & Grace

Read "Grit & Grace" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
November 5, 2023

Asked to name the traits women most need to succeed in today's business world, Forbes magazine in a 2019 article underlined two of them as “grit and grace." One woman who took the advice to heart is bass trombonist Jennifer Wharton. She came late to jazz but has since made it her domain of choice, founding ...

Article: Album Review

Jennifer Wharton's Bonegasm: Grit & Grace

Read "Grit & Grace" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
November 2, 2023

Blessed be the 'bone of invention and intention that is Jennifer Wharton. A mere six years ago, the noted bass trombonist had the idea to form a slide-centric septet and commission new music to bring her oft-neglected and ballasting instrument to the fore. Driven to act on that concept, Wharton thought things through, put a plan ...

Song of the Day

Be Normal

October 25, 2023

Album: Grit & Grace
By Jennifer Wharton
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 5:20

Article: Album Review

Erica Seguine/Shon Baker Orchestra: The New Day Bends Light

Read "The New Day Bends Light" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 2, 2023

The New Day Bends Light, the debut recording by the twelve-year-old Erica Seguine/Shon Baker Orchestra, is interesting on a number of levels, not the least of which is emotional. The leaders and their twenty-one piece ensemble are clearly committed to the music and do their best to breathe life into each of the album's seven numbers, ...

Article: Liner Notes

Jennifer Wharton: Not a Novelty

by Dan Bilawsky
March 3, 2023

The eponymous debut from Jennifer Wharton's Bonegasm broke the mold. There are no two ways about it. And while some may look at a statement like that and cry hyperbole, history begs to differ. With rare exception, the bass trombone—a horn forever typecast as an anchor—has been marginalized. So the idea of an ensemble featuring that ...

Album

A Lotus in the Mud

By Yu Nishiyama

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Retrospections; Time Is Money; I Can’t Imagine a Happy Life without You; Honorary Whites; Skylark; A Lotus in the Mud.

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Ari's Funhouse

By Ben Markley

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Birdless; Lyric; Lines of Oppression; Bert's Playground; For Tracy; Arrows and Loops; Green Spleen

Article: Album Review

Ben Markley Big Band: Ari's Funhouse

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by Jack Bowers
May 15, 2022

Ari's Funhouse, recorded in July 2021, sprang from a chance encounter at a Texas jazz festival in 2019 between New York-based drummer & composer Ari Hoenig and Denver-based pianist & arranger Ben Markley. After performing with Hoenig in a small group, Markley asked if he might score some of Hoenig's songs for a big band. Hoenig ...