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Jeff Lederer

Little (i) Music is a Brooklyn-based record label founded by saxophonist Jeff Lederer, which produces creative music in the jazz and improvised music fields. The catolog focuses on the work of Jeff Lederer and his projects, including Shakers n' Bakers, Mary LaRose, Swing N' Dix, and the upcoming Brooklyn Blowhards release! New release by Honey Ear Trio is coming in Sept 2016! Jeff Lederer is a New York based saxophonist-clarinetist/composer/educator whose work crosses the genres of jazz, latin and creative improvised music. In 2014 he has been named in both the critics and Readers Polls of Downbeat Magazine recognizing his work on tenor and alto saxophones and clarinet

Eightfold Path

Label: Little (i) Music
Released: 2021
Track listing: Right Concentration; Right Speech; Right Effort; Right Action; Right Resolve; Right View; Right Livelihood; Right Mindfullness.

Jeff Lederer's Sunwatcher: Eightfold Path

by Mark Corroto
August 31, 2021

Knowingly or unknowingly, we are all on the Dharma path. It doesn't matter if you are a Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Jain, or Satanist. Okay, maybe not Satanist, but we are all in our own way desiring some form of enlightened awakening and the end of suffering. During the height of the pandemic, saxophonist Jeff Lederer ...

Hug

January 13, 2021

Album: Hug!
By Matt Wilson
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2020
Duration: 3:51

History Gets Ahead of the Story

By Jeff Cosgrove

Label: Grizzley Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: O’Neal’s Porch; Corn Meal Dance; Gospel Flowers; Little Bird; Ghost; Moon; Things Fall Apart; Wood Flute Song; Purcell’s Lament; Harlem.

Hug!

By Matt Wilson

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: The One Before This; Jabulani; In The Moment; Every Day with You; Space Force March/Interplanetary Music; Joie De Vivre; Sunny and Share; Hug! King Of The Road; Man Bun; Hambe Kahle.

Jerome Wilson's Best Releases of 2020

by Jerome Wilson
December 22, 2020

2020 was a wretched year in many respects. In the jazz world alone, a number of musicians succumbed to COVID-19 and live performance almost became non-existent. Despite all that there were still a lot of stimulating and excellent recordings released in the past year. Here is a list of my personal best. Some reflected the issues ...

Albert Ayler: Albert Ayler 1965: Spirits Rejoice & Bells Revisited

by Mark Corroto
November 28, 2020

Being that 2020 is more than half a century since Albert Ayler (1936-70) recorded this music, the best way to approach might be through what the Zen Buddhists call Shoshin. Roughly translated as “beginner's mind," or the ability to experience things as if for the first time. Since we cannot transport ourselves back to 1965, taking ...

Matt Wilson Quartet: Hug!

by Jerome Wilson
October 13, 2020

A hug is something which is a distant memory for most of us these days. The warm and friendly vibes of this new Matt Wilson album could be thought of as a virtual hug, full of smile-inducing swing and raffish humor. Wilson's partners on this excursion are some of his usual cohorts, saxophonist Jeff ...

Jeff Cosgrove / John Medeski / Jeff Lederer: History Gets Ahead of the Story

by Jerome Wilson
September 22, 2020

William Parker gets deserved acclaim for his abilities as a bassist and his activism and leadership in the avant jazz community but not as much for his composing. Drummer Jeff Cosgrove tries to correct that with this project that features Parker's music played by an organ trio with no bassist. Cosgrove's partners in this ...