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JC Sanford

http://www.jcsanford.com/ Trombonist/composer/conductor JC Sanford is a musician of rare breadth, deeply rooted in the traditions of Jazz and Classical music, yet constantly pushing at their boundaries. Equally at home in many roles, Sanford works regularly as a composer, performer, arranger and conductor. As a trombonist, Mr. Sanford has performed with many of the jazz world's leading figures, such as Matt Wilson, Danilo Perez, and John McNeil. His improvisational trio Triocracy - with saxophonists Andy Laster and Chris Bacas - serves as an outlet for his unique compositions and improvisational concepts

Modern Flora

By Dylan Davis Hicks

Label: Soft Launch Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: If Spring Comes like They Say; The Head of a Dog; The Unicellular Spore; Modern Flora; All Thumbs.

Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Modern Flora

by Neil Duggan
August 30, 2024

In years gone by, record stores would sometimes categorise their albums by genre, so there would be sections on jazz, pop and singer-songwriter, etc. Modern Flora from Dylan Hicks & Small Screens is the sort of album that could cause the record store owner a problem, as the album would comfortably fit into all those categories. ...

Frank Carlberg Large Ensemble: Elegy for Thelonious

by Mark Corroto
February 21, 2024

There was a sardonic saying circulating a few years ago that observed, “It's Frank Sinatra's world, we just live in it." While that was a backhanded compliment, tailoring it to the subject of this large ensemble recording, we would call it a commendation. Pianist, composer, and conductor Frank Carlberg is telling us, “It's Thelonious Monk's world, ...

Sparrows are Badasses

January 17, 2024

Album: New Past
By JC Sanford
Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 6:11

New Past

By JC Sanford

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Sparrows are Badasses; Avocado; Choro de Familiaris; followfellowflow; Evidence; Tones of Tamuras; Toy Tune; Some Moments are Eternal.

Bernie Senesky, Ahmad Jamal & Drew Zaremba

by Joe Dimino
November 19, 2023

We start the 829th Episode of Neon Jazz with rising star Drew Zaremba and music from his 2023 release Reunion. From there, we get into a band he's had some history with in the US Air Force Airmen of Note. We also hear a heavy helping of new music from Valeria Matzner, Bernie Senesky, Alex Hitchcock ...

From Badass Sparrows to Playhouse 90 and Naked City

by Richard J Salvucci
October 22, 2023

These are not recordings for the faint of heart. They require a willing suspension of disbelief, many years of watching noir television, and, probably, access to a keyboard. For the adventuresome, think of them as recordings that repay effort and imagination. If not, go back to “April in Paris" or “Shiny Stockings." Your family and neighbors ...

JC Sanford with Anthony Cox and Michael Cain: New Past

by Troy Dostert
October 19, 2023

Although he has shown himself to be adept in crafting big-band releases such as Views from the Inside (Whirlwind, 2014), trombonist JC Sanford usually works in a pared-down setting, such as his quartet release Keratoconus (Shifting Paradigm, 2019) or, more recently, the two volumes of his trio-based Imminent Standards (Shifting Paradigm, 2021 and 2022). Here he ...

Imminent Standards Trio, Vol. 2

By JC Sanford

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Fried Bananas (Dexter Gordon), Ceora (Lee Morgan), Lonely Woman (Ornette Coleman), Turnaround (Ornette Coleman), Ugly Beauty (Thelonious Monk), Freight Trane (Tommy Flanagan), Willow Weep for Me (Ann Ronell), Isn't She Lovely (Stevie Wonder)