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Graham Villette

Introducing Ardeshir

By Ardeshir Pourkeramati

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: Sketches of Cedar; East of the Village; Blues Up and Down; My Shining Hour; All About; Introduction to Darn That Dream; Darn That Dream; Just One of Those Things; Silver Tones; The Eternal Triangle; Midnight Paradox; BU’s Message; The Theme.

Ardeshir: Introducing Ardeshir

by Jack Bowers
July 9, 2026

For more than 35 years, starting in the mid-1950s, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers set the gold standard for small-group hard bop jazz in the U.S. and around the world, a benchmark at which Canadian tenor saxophonist Ardeshir Pourkeramati's charismatic quintet/quartet takes dead aim on the leader's superlative debut recording, Introducing Ardeshir. This ...

Mode for Noah

By Noah Becker

Label: Entour Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Mode for Noah; Directions; Open Road; Chasing Dragons; Meeting Place; Canal Zone; August Moon.

Noah Becker: Mode for Noah

by Jack Bowers
March 12, 2024

Alto saxophonist Noah Becker guides a splendid trio of western Canadian sidemen through their paces on Mode for Noah, which consists of seven of his original compositions. Becker's music is glossy and well-balanced, as are his solos, which, to his credit, do not quickly bring to mind any of his contemporaries. He plays ...