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Guitarist Jeff Swanson has made his unique voice and open mind a valued part of Chicago’s diverse music scene. A strong player in many disciplines, he has been featured at the Chicago Jazz Festival, Hyde Park Jazz Festival, Iowa City Jazz Festival, Chicago Gospel Festival. Case-fitter, is Swanson’s first original full-length release. It was recorded over four weeks in April 2017 during a residency at The Whistler in Chicago. Each week the group used a set repertoire and added members to its core trio, exploring a different experience each week and concluding with the final recorded performance as an octet. Swanson brings a fresh lyrical approach to meshing jazz, improvisation, electronic and post-rock music together on this release

Album

Pathways

By Connor Bernhard

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Jackalope; Support; Altitude; Claudio; Evenings with Linnea; Dat Dere; Moo the Mooch; Lament for Roy; Struttin'; Three Little Words; Wichita Lineman.

Article: Album Review

Connor Bernhard: Pathways

Read "Pathways" reviewed by Jeff Cebulski

by Jeff Cebulski
May 20, 2026

Nearly five years after his debut album Altitude (BASE Records, 2020), Chicago trumpeter Connor Bernhard gathered most of that album's cohorts for his second recording as a leader, Pathways. What also returns is the same bright, engaging horn that distinguishes Bernhard and lifts the proceedings significantly. His band--the three repeaters Julius Tucker on piano, Jeff Swanson ...

Album

Fathoms

By Jeff Swanson

Label: Bace Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Gaussian, Roads, Replicant, Elisha, Tre, Fyra, Round One, Färvel, The Accutron, Let The Children Play

Album

A Time And A Place

By Dustin Laurenzi

Label: Woolgathering Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Mantra; Albert; Ridgeway; Blocks; Slate.

Article: Album Review

Dustin Laurenzi's Natural Language: A Time And A Place

Read "A Time And A Place" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
October 27, 2020

When Chicago tenor saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi dedicates a song “Albert" on A Time And A Place to the the Holy Ghost of the avant- garde, Albert Ayler, he doesn't follow what most impersonators do and scream “ALBERT" at you. He builds upon a simple melody pattern (Ayler-like) patiently magnifying the intensity and fervor. Unlike Ayler, whose ...

Album

Case-fitter

By Jeff Swanson

Label: Bace Records
Released: 2018
Track listing: Graham's #1, Two-Nineteen #2, MF #3, F-Bomb #4, Little Big Run #5, The Crashing Wave #6, Let the Children Play #7

Song of the Day

Little Big Run

April 4, 2018

Album: Case-fitter
By Jeff Swanson
Label: Bace Records
Released: 2018
Duration: 09:30

Article: Record Label Profile

ears&eyes Records: From Chicago to the World

by Jakob Baekgaard
June 22, 2017

Those who feel that jazz has run out of steam, that there is nothing new to say, should encounter bassist and renaissance man, Matthew Golombisky, who runs the Chicago-based label ears&eyes. The name says it all. Golombisky is interested in what is going on around him. He is not only curious about music, but also passionate ...

Article: Album Review

Dustin Laurenzi: Natural Language

Read "Natural Language" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
September 2, 2016

With his sonorous tone and his watershed style, tenor saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi is one of the most promising emergent talents on the Chicago scene. With his various ensembles, in a few short years, he has recorded handful of uniformly exciting sessions. Their trademark is their foothold in the jazz tradition while simultaneously flirting with a freer ...