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Saxophonist and composer Geof Bradfield blends modern jazz, African rhythms, and the roots music of his native South into a style that is “explicitly adventurous and forward-looking” (AllAboutJazz.com). Born in Houston and based in Chicago, Bradfield has performed throughout North America, Europe, Russia, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, sharing the stage and recording studio with artists such as Randy Weston, Dana Hall, Clark Sommers, Brian Blade, Ben Goldberg, Anna Webber, Orrin Evans, Jeff Parker, Matt Ulery, and Ryan Cohan. His work is featured on 50+ CDs including ten albums as a leader that have garnered critical accolades from the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and NPR. He has received grants and awards from Chamber Music America, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, DCASE, Illinois Arts Council, and the Mellon Foundation. The Downbeat Critics Poll has named him a Rising Star Tenor Saxophonist and Arranger multiple years.

Album

Open Or Close

By Geof Bradfield

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Open or Close; A Line With a Mind of Its Own; No Brand; Study of the Blues; Three Ingredients; Lonely Flowers; The Kitchen; Aargh.

Album

Climbing

By Josh Achiron

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Troubles Become Triumphs; The Papaya King; The Only Way Is Through; Climbing; Mean Machine; The Pain That Hurts; The Pain That Alters; Take The Coltrane.

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WaBaSH

By Clark Sommers

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Points of Reduction; Close the Loop; Bass Intro I; Kasbah; Group Solitude; Contemplation; In Your Own Sweet Way; Bass Intro II; That Was Then; Ornette-Type-Tune.

Album

Laid Back Vol. 1, featuring John Swana

By Rich Willey

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Laid Back (Night Life); Triple Play; Relax & Take It Easy; Long Lost Brothers; Ladies First; That’s My Little Girl; Hip Slick & Cool.

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Solitary Moon

By Tommy Muellner

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: While We're Young; Like Someone In Love; Sandt's Samba (Ahma's Garden); The Wind; I Remember You; Soldier In The Rain; Cuz Tune; Oceans In The Sky; Monk See, Monk Do; Make Someone Happy; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Solitary Moon (aka Moon Song); Somewhere; Diane / Danny Boy; Why Did I Choose You.

Album

Colours

By Kenny Reichert

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Colours; Belmont; Holes In The Dirt; The Prairie; Yin; Simi

Article: Album Review

Tommy Muellner: Solitary Moon

Read "Solitary Moon" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
September 15, 2026

Today's hipster jazz musicians do not play standards. Perhaps “poseur" is a better description for artists who deliberately eschew classic compositions. Yet standards and familiar songs serve an important purpose in jazz: they provide a shared musical language, a lingua franca through which musicians communicate and listeners can measure the quality of an interpretation. Maybe, just ...

Article: Album Review

Geof Bradfield / Myra Melford / Ben Goldberg / Dana Hall: Open Or Close

Read "Open Or Close" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 5, 2026

Ornette Coleman may come to mind at the beginning of the spin of Open Or Close. This is understandable. The title song, which opens the set, is from Coleman's pen. Additionally, the jazz collective at work here--reedmen Geof Bradfield and Ben Goldberg, pianist Myra Melford and drummer Dana Hall play loose and free, à la Ornette, ...

Article: Album Review

Clark Sommers: WaBaSH

by Jack Bowers
August 7, 2026

Wabash is the name of a river in Indiana and Illinois, an avenue in Chicago and, what is most relevant to this recording, the name of the quartet that performs on the avenue, a respectable group led by bassist Clark Sommers. Sommers' WaBaSH ensemble varies from the quartet norm in that two of its ...