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Joe Jackson

Keep Holding On

By Leigh Pilzer

Label: Strange Woman Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Swinging at the Station; Js and Ks; Musing Music; What’s Up, Puppy; Keep Holding On; When It’s Gone; Zingamomma; Just Another Pretty Song; East Coast Andy; Sideburns; G’s Bop.

Leigh Pilzer: Keep Holding On

by Hrayr Attarian
July 15, 2026

Baritone saxophonist Leigh Pilzer is a member of A-list orchestras like the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra, among others.  She is also an exciting improviser and bandleader in her own right.  Her third release as a leader, the captivating Keep Holding On, is with her organ trio and ...

Leigh Pilzer: Keep Holding On

by Jack Bowers
June 19, 2026

There are times when the friends you make can make a world of difference. That is certainly true of baritone saxophonist Leigh Pilzer's recording, Keep Holding On, whose trio format--admirable in its own way--is considerably enriched by a quartet of friends and colleagues whose expertise helps brighten even further five of the album's 11 already-impressive numbers. ...

Jaana Narsipur: The Re-Collection

by Pierre Giroux
June 11, 2026

There are few things more revealing than the songs we hold close from our formative years. Jaana Narsipur on The Re- Collection opens her musical scrapbook of Brit-pop and adult contemporary staples, reimagining them as living, breathing jazz narratives. The result is an album that feels deeply personal without tipping into self-indulgence. Pianist and music director ...

Roberto Di Gioia: Web Web - Kover Kover

by Andy Crowther
April 24, 2026

Web Web are a “German supergroup" releasing mostly their own material on the Munich-based Compost Records. All are heavily influenced by the spiritual sounds of the legendary Black Jazz and Strata East labels, the grooves of ethio-jazz, and the more experimental kraut-rock leanings of bands like Embryo. But their 2025 album Plexus Plexus tellingly included a ...

Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield: Speaking In Tongues

by Mike Jurkovic
February 20, 2025

There is something wistful and empowering about wanderlust pianist/composer/electronics Rachel Eckroth's acoustic sensibility that holds a lot of sway with many of her listeners. This falls into direct opposition to her electronic side which, as cool as it sounds, can lean a tad too easily into the blurry, pop-oriented tendencies of Vangelis, Kraftwerk, or Gary Newman. ...

Beatin' the Odds

By Leigh Pilzer

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: SKCC; Lin; Waterkress; The Platinum Taxi; Beatin’ the Odds; And Then It Stopped; Last Year, Lost Year; How Much Longer; Where Will We Go?

Leigh Pilzer: Beatin' the Odds

by Jack Bowers
May 19, 2024

Beatin' the Odds. To baritone saxophonist Leigh Pilzer, that is far more than a catchphrase: it is a grim yet ultimately happy reality. In 2017, Pilzer was diagnosed with cancer. After extensive treatments, her odds of surviving more than five years were reckoned as around thirty percent. But six years have gone by, and not only ...

Vinnie Zummo: Jazz and Pop Tale Daze

by Mark Sullivan
October 13, 2023

Vinnie Zummo is best known for his guitar playing with singer & songwriter Joe Jackson. He appeared on every Jackson album from Body and Soul (A&M, 1984), through Blaze of Glory (A&M, 1989), returning for The Duke (Razor & Tie Recordings, 2012). He also has a long history of mostly one-man-band recordings on his own Vaz ...