Results for "Jacob Smith"

Jacob Smith

Introducing

By Brandon Suarez

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face; Love Thy Neighbor.

Brandon Suarez: Introducing

by Pierre Giroux
October 31, 2025

Tenor saxophonist Brandon Suarez's Introducing showcases his vision of blending timeless elegance with youthful vitality. Inspired by jazz legends such as John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, Suarez approaches the Great American Songbook as both a guardian and a creative interpreter. His aim was to craft a classic vocal ...

Visions Jazz Ensemble: Across the Field

by Jack Bowers
November 16, 2024

Here is a unique and intriguing concept: a baker's dozen collegiate anthems and fight songs, trimly recast in contemporary jazz settings by the seven-member Visions Jazz Ensemble, comprised of Indiana University alumni who stride Across the Field with an abundance of proficiency and perception. Although the hip arrangements by the ensemble's co-leaders, trumpeter ...