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Jason Rigby
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Some musicians seem born with sound in their bones. Jason Rigby is one of them.
Born on a U.S. Naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, to a Navy family with deep Sicilian and Irish roots, Jason had already lived in Hawaii and Texas before his family landed in Cleveland, Ohio, when he was just five. But it wasn’t geography that shaped his path—it was sound.
One evening, when Jason was ten, while tuning into an Indians baseball game on the radio, something on the local jazz station stopped him cold. It was Coleman Hawkins’ legendary 1939 recording of Body and Soul. “That sound stopped me in my tracks,” Jason remembers. “I knew that was where I wanted to exist—inside that huge sound and soulful playing.” And from that moment, the saxophone wasn’t just an instrument—it was home.
Adam Beaudoin's 15 Favorite Albums of 2025
by Adam Beaudoin
Year-end lists are a strange creature, as conceptually absurd as they are genuinely useful. They contend to distill a year's worth of recorded music into “the very best," a laughably conceited claim for any one listener or editorial board, no matter how erudite and steeped in the music, to make. For jazz, the situation is even ...
Muthspiel / Colley / Blade, JC Sandford's EQ, Donovan Haffner, The Poly-Tones
by Cheryl K.
During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, guitarist Wolfgang Muthspiel, bassist Scott Colley, and drummer Brian Blade; pianist Simon Chivallon; Lizzy & The Triggermen; JC Sandford's EQ; Perceptions Trio; saxophonists Jason Rigby and Donovan Haffner; The Poly-Tones; bassist Rich Brown; and pianist Chano Domínguez and guitarist Ethan Margolis. Playlist Monnette Sudler ...
Mike Holober & The Gotham Jazz Orchestra: This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters
by Jack Bowers
This Rock We're On, acclaimed composer and pianist Mike Holober's 2024 recording as leader of the Gotham Jazz Orchestra, is challenging to summarize in mere words, as it consists of a multi-part suite (on two CDs) which blends jazz, classical and art songs in a thematic environment that uses a series of “imaginary letters" from a ...
Songs, Hymns And Ballads Volume 2
By Jakob Dreyer
Label: Fresh Sound New Talent
Released: 2023
Track listing: Neuland;
Ypsilon;
Twenty Twenty;
Mandalay;
Tamara’s Waltz;
Conjunction;
Curfew;
Fat Cat;
Beauchene.
Exuberance
Label: Tonal Conversations
Released: 2024
Track listing: In Winter Blooms; Moments in Between; Communion; Simple Machines; Before Dawn; Certainty; Exuberance.
Infinite Connections
By Jihye Lee
Label: Motéma Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Surrender; We Are All from the Same Stream; Born in 1935; Eight Letters; Karma; You Are My Universe; Nowhere
Home; In the Darkest Night; Crossing the River of Grace.
This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters
By Mike Holober
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Lay of the Land; On This Rock; Dirt Lovers Almanac; Another Summer; Tides; Another Summer Epilogue; Virginia;
Dear Virginia; Domes; Refuge; Tower Pulse; Erosion; Three Words for Snow; Boundary Waters; Noetry; Skywoman Falling; This Rock We're On.
Christopher Zuar Orchestra: Exuberance
by Jack Bowers
Composer/arranger Christopher Zuar's second album, Exuberance, recounts in musical terms a twisting yet picturesque journey that began seven years earlier, in 2017, when Zuar first met his now-wife, the animator Anne Beal, at MacDowell, the famed artists' residency in New Hampshire. While the relationship “blooms" in winter, there are “moments between" and other inescapable detours until ...
Mike Holober & the Gotham City Orchestra: This Rock We're On: Imaginary Letters
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo gli ultimi superlativi album orchestrali (Balancing Act, Palmetto 2015 e Hiding Out, Zoho 2019) la nuova incisione di Mike Holober con la Gotham Jazz Orchestra non dovrebbe stupirci, eppure questo doppio album ci ha nuovamente colpito. L'aggiunta di Chris Potter, John Patitucci, Nir Felder e della cantante brasiliana Jamile Staevie Ayres all'orchestra rende ...
