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George Colligan
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George Colligan is a New York based pianist, organist,drummer, trumpeter, teacher, and bandleader, who is one of the most original and compelling jazz artists of his generation. An award-winning composer (Chamber Music America/Doris Duke Foundation grant recipient, RACC Grant Winner) and player (winner, Jazzconnect.com Jazz Competition, DownBeat Critics Poll Winner), Colligan is highly in demand as a sideman, having worked with players like Jack DeJohnette, John Scofield, Cassandra Wilson, Ravi Coltrane, and many others, both on the bandstand and in recording sessions (appearing on over 150 CDs). He has released 31 recordings full of his intelligent writing and impressive technique. His latest CD on the Ubuntu Label is called”Live in Arklow” and features Darren Beckett and Dave Redmond. Colligan’s musical style incorporates everything from showtunes to funk, from free improvisation to 20th century classical music. His performances include dazzling technique as well as mature restraint. Colligan was on the faculty of the Juilliard School for two years and is currently an Assistant Professor at Portland State University. He is currently a member of Jack DeJohnette’s New Quintet.Recently, Colligan started playing the Hammond 44 Melodion(melodica). He also started a popular blog called jazztruth(jazztruth.blogspot.com).
Live at Blue Llama
Label: Bandstand Presents
Released: 2024
Track listing: Tread Lightly, Cole Train Blues, Sunset Dreams,
Yearn for the Burn, Remembering You, Going
Viral, Anthem
Live At The Jazz Standard
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Waiting for Solitude; Song for the Tarahumara Intro; Song for the Tarahumara; Her Majesty Intro;
Her
Majesty; Liam's Lament Intro; Liam's Lament; If the Mountan was Smooth.
All In Motion
By Dave Redmond
Label: Step By Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: All In Motion; Inner Way; Centro; Faultlines (trio); Pond Life; Windchill; Chilled Hymn; One Way Street; All In
Motion (duo); Drip Dry.
New America
By Nick Biello
Label: La Reserve
Released: 2025
Track listing: Bel Canto; Queen of Jordan; Slightly Perilous; Before the Flood; A Long Way to You; New
America.
Cipher
Label: PHP Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Departure, 13 Miles, En Route, Namesake, But Not Forgotten, Eden, Are You Sure?, 2 in 1.
Alternate Route
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Before It's Too Late;
Here We Go Again;
Watercolor;
Storm Warning;
Alternate Route;
Stopped at a Green Light;
The Sunrise Wants to Break Through;
Intensity;
Change of Plans;
No Present Like the Time;
Tara.
Watercolor
Album: Alternate Route
By Kerry Politzer
Label: Whirlwind Recordings
Released: 2025
Duration: 06:46
Remembering Jack DeJohnette: Unlimited Imagination
by Ian Patterson
It is with sadness that All About jazz must report the passing of NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette--one of the most respected and influential of modern jazz drummers. He died of congestive heart failure on October 26, 2025. He was 83. DeJohnette belongs in the pantheon of great jazz drummers. If there were a ...
Charlie Porter: Cipher
by Paul Rauch
Trumpeter Charlie Porter's Cipher (PHP, 2025) carries with it a concept that provides clues to a treasure hunt and cash money--an interesting and different idea not broached here. Instead, the focus becomes the music contained within this, his eighth release as a leader. Porter, having spent time in both Portland and New York, has enjoyed fine ...
