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Bassist/composer Jay Anderson is among the most versatile and respected jazz artists performing today. Born in 1955 in Southern California, Anderson be gan playing acoustic bass at the age of 12. Throughout junior high, high school, and college, Anderson won numerous awards for excellence in both jazz and classical music. One week after receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Performance from California State University at Long Beach, Anderson was asked to join the Woody Herman Orchestra. After touring with the “Herd” for a year, he was called by Carmen McRae and performed with the legendary singer for the next two years. In 1982 Anderson made the decision to move to New York City

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Live Your Dream

By Brad Goode

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Covid Nightmare; For Michael; Half Moon; Lover Man; Live Your Dream; I Miss Missing You; Some Day My Prince Will Come; Goose Dance.

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American Crow

By Maria Schneider

Label: ArtistShare
Released: 2026
Track listing: American Crow; A World Lost; Field Recordings: American Crow Vocalizations; American Crow Revisited (alternate take).

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Enduring Sonance

By Steve Wilson

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Quiet Girl; Helen's Song; Pieces of Dreams; How Long?; A Volta; The Eyes of Love; The Surest Things Can Change; Francisco .

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Inquiry

By Armen Donelian

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Beyond; Somewhere; Blue in Green; Dark Moon (Lune Noire); What Is; Inverted Reality; Petite Triste; Weeping Willow; Too Soon Gone; Aqua Reminiscence.

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Goose Dance

July 22, 2026

Album: Live Your Dream
By Brad Goode
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 07:36

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Brad Goode: Live Your Dream

Read "Live Your Dream" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 21, 2026

Live Your Dream is the second album on which trumpet master Brad Goode and acclaimed tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts have shared the front line. The first, That's Right!, was recorded eight years earlier, in 2018. The sophomore enterprise was taped live at the North Street Cabaret in Madison, Wisconsin, something the musicians were unaware of until ...

Article: Live Review

The Gil Evans Project at Birdland

by Paul Reynolds
June 4, 2026

The Gil Evans Project Birdland Sketches of Spain and Porgy and Bess New York NY May 27 and May 30, 2026 Among the many celebrations of Miles Davis during his centennial week, it's hard to rival the ambition of Ryan Truesdell's fine five-night takeover of the main room at Birdland to ...

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Steve Wilson: Enduring Sonance

Read "Enduring Sonance" reviewed by Andrew Schinder

by Andrew Schinder
May 1, 2026

Virginia-born, New York-based alto saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Steve Wilson has created a sonic palette overflowing with delightfulness with Enduring Sonance, Wilson's debut album. Wilson's trademark dulcet tones fill the record, which eschews any hint of difficulty or impenetrability in favor of pure pleasure and musical expertise. Enduring Sonance is calculatedly straight-ahead, an exercise in accessibility without sacrificing sophistication. ...

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Bill Ware and the Club Bird All Stars: Martian Sunset

Read "Martian Sunset" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
April 28, 2026

In questi anni di rinascimento del vibrafono--con la presenza di notevoli giovani strumentisti di entrambi i sessi--non dimentichiamoci di Bill Ware, solista molto attivo nei territori di frontiera col rock dalla fine degli anni ottanta ad oggi. Ricordiamo la sua lunga collaborazione con The Jazz Passengers, Groove Collective, Steely Dan e le incisioni con protagonisti trasversali: ...