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Jim Leslie

The Nutcracker Remix

By Eric Lechliter

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Overture; The Pistachio March; Sugar Rush; Everybody Digs Flowers; Caipiroska; Camel Capery; General Tso’s Gumbo; The Pine Forest; Toot Toot Toot-Tutti; Christmas Time Is Here; Merry Christmas Baby; Christmas This Year.

Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra: The Nutcracker Remix

by Jack Bowers
December 10, 2025

For those who assumed that Duke Ellington may have had the last word when it came to jazz interpretations of Peter Tchaikovsky's memorable Nutcracker Suite, welcome to The Nutcracker Remix, a sharp and stunning new portrayal of Tchaikovsky's enduring work by the stellar Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. This is Tchaikovsky for the 21st ...

Larry Dickson Jazz Quartet: Winter Horizons

by Jack Bowers
March 16, 2019

Winter Horizons is the last of Cincinnati-based baritone saxophonist Larry Dickson's four-part salute to the seasons which began in 2015 with Second Springtime and includes Summergold Promises and Donora Autumn. As before, Dickson leads a quartet whose charter members are bassist Michael Sharfe and drummer Jim Leslie. Alto saxophonist Rick Van Matre, Dickson's band mate in ...

Larry Dickson Jazz Quartet: Donora Autumn

by Jack Bowers
July 29, 2017

Baritone sax, trumpet, bass and drums: a lineup that may seem more than passably familiar to fans of small-group jazz in general and West Coast jazz in particular. The first of many piano-less quartets--and the one that remains the gold standard-- was the Gerry Mulligan / Chet Baker Quartet, formed in the early '50s with Bob ...

Larry Dickson Jazz Quartet: Summergold Promises

by Jack Bowers
August 10, 2016

Cincinnati-based baritone saxophonist Larry Dickson's new album, Summergold Promises, is almost a companion piece to his previous enterprise, Second Springtime, which was appraised favorably here less than a year ago. The word “almost" is necessary because Dickson's front-line partner on Springtime, tenor saxophonist Brent Gallaher, has been replaced by trombonist Bill Gemmer, lending the quartet a ...

Larry Dickson Jazz Quartet: Second Springtime

by Jack Bowers
December 3, 2015

On Second Springtime, baritone saxophonist Larry Dickson, a mainstay for more than three decades with Cincinnati's renowned Blue Wisp Big Band, leads a quartet sans piano, much like Gerry Mulligan's groundbreaking ensemble from the early '50s. Unlike Mulligan's storied quartet, however, Dickson shares the front line not with a trumpeter (Chet Baker) but a tenor saxophonist ...