Results for "James Burton III"

James Burton III

Oracles

By Helen Sung Big Band

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Convergence; Samba da Gumz; Positively C.T.; Diana; Wayne's World; Mr. Virtuoso; R.J.; A Little Bird Watchin'; Pianism: I. Barry Harris, II. Kenny Barron, III: Herbie Hancock; Peace.

Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller

By David DeJesus

Label: Birdland Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Storybook; Water Lily; Tenderly; Chorale and Alleluia; Sail Away; WTF; Close Your Eyes; Concierto de Aranjuez/Spain; The Doubledown; Nonsense.

The Birdland Big Band: Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller

by Jack Bowers
October 7, 2025

Storybook, the third recording by the New York City-based Birdland Big Band, is subtitled “the music of Mark Miller" and is designed to showcase compositions and arrangements by that multi-talented artist who doubles (triples) as the band's lead trombonist. Miller wrote or co-wrote half of the album's 10 colorful and impressive numbers (11 if one counts ...

OR

By Tracy Yang

Label: Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: OR (Operating Room); Sea of Clouds--Scene Taiwan Collection I; Sea Swell--Scene Taiwan Collection II; Melting Arctic; A Step to My Dream; MMXXI suite: I. Uncertainty; MMXXI suite: Healing; MMXXI suite: III. Reunited.

Truth to Power

By Wayne Escoffery

Label: HighNote Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Black Heart; The Fabricator; Truth to Power; It's Alright; Coming of Age; Dsus; Code Switching; Soliloquy (for Sidney Poitier); Lookin' for Leroy; Blues on Stratford.

Holidays

By Kristen Lee Sergeant

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Snowbound; My Favorite Things; Solstice; Blue Xmas; What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?; Sleigh Ride; A Child is Born; The Christmas Song; I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm

Wayne Escoffery: Still Forging Ahead

by R.J. DeLuke
May 22, 2023

Saxophonist Wayne Escoffery has a long, ongoing association with the Mingus Big Band organization, including a Grammy for Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard (Jazz Workshop, Inc., Sue Mingus Music, 2010). His career also includes a special relationship with trumpeter Tom Harrell, with whom he has played for many years. All that is enough to ...

What's Next

By Uptown Jazz Tentet

Label: Irabbagast Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Uptown Bass Hit; What's Next; SKJ; Change; Bramblin'; Pursue; Mance's Dance; Infant Eyes; In a Sentimental Mood; Voyage.

Uptown Jazz Tentet: What's Next

by Edward Blanco
November 13, 2020

New York-based trombonist Willie Applewhite birthed the idea of forming a new big band comprised of friends, and in 2016 The Uptown Jazz Tentet was established, co-led by trumpeter Brandon Lee and trombonist James Burton III. After playing to live audiences for several years, What's Next is the group's debut recording, and what an outing it ...