Results for "Joel Tucker"

Joel Tucker

Sean Imboden Large Ensemble: Communal Heart

by Jack Bowers
June 17, 2026

Communal Heart is the first album by saxophonist and composer Sean Imboden's superb Indiana-based Large Ensemble, recorded about a year before his second recording, Uncharted Realms (Self Produced, 2026). As before, all the compositions and arrangements are Imboden's, while the personnel in the eighteen-member orchestra remains virtually intact. If there is a difference between ...

Sean Imboden Large Ensemble: Uncharted Realms

by Jack Bowers
May 19, 2026

Saxophonist and composer Sean Imboden's Large Ensemble springs forth from America's heartland--more specifically, the thriving capital city of Indianapolis, Indiana. The ensemble is indeed large--18 members strong--and Imboden gives every one of them serious work to do on the group's second recording, Uncharted Realms, unraveling a series of colorful and adventurous charts written with the ensemble's ...

Communal Heart

By Sean Imboden

Label: Self Released
Released: 2025
Track listing: Fire Spirit; Dance of Inquiry; Certified Organic; Someone To Watch Over Us; Portal Passage.

Sean Imboden: Communal Heart

by Dean Nardi
June 8, 2025

Sean Imboden's Large Ensemble Has a Communal Heart Sean Imboden was bitten by the big band bug early on. It is understandable. Both his parents were musicians, and his father taught him to play clarinet when he was in sixth grade. As a teenager, besides playing in middle school and high school bands, he sometimes sat ...

Time Takes Odd Turns

By Tom Johnson

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Naught Won; Simple Song; 80’s Suite: Book One; 80’s Suite (Book One, One More Time, Lucky); En la Casa de los Perritos; Well You Better; Ballad for the A1 Band; Cats and Mouses; Bossa Monday Suite; Simply Stuff and Nonsense.

Live at Chatterbox

By Joel Tucker

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Skylark; Shakshuka; Caravan; Mantra; Away; You and the Night and the Music; Rhythm Changed.

Guitar Forms 2024

by Jerome Wilson
May 23, 2024

These are a few recent releases where guitars have a featured role. Jeanfrancois Prins Blue Note Mode GAM Records 2024 Guitarist Jeanfrancois Prins is from Belgium but his music comes straight out of the American jazz tradition. He recorded this album at the legendary Rudy Van Gelder studio ...

Tucker Brothers: Live at Chatterbox

by Jack Bowers
March 14, 2024

Chatterbox is a nightspot in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Tucker brothers (Joel, guitar; Nick, bass) homegrown siblings whose weekly gig at Chatterbox serves essentially as their home base. The brothers lead a quartet on this concert date, with tenor saxophonist Sean Imboden and drummer Carrington Clinton rounding out the group. Joel Tucker is the ...

New Music From Kaze, Pepa Niebla, Will Régnier & More

by Bob Osborne
February 15, 2024

On this show we present recent and forthcoming releases from Ultraviolet, Petra Haller & Meg Morley, Kaze, Pepa Niebla, Will Régnier, Enthusiastic Musicians Orchestra, Joel Tucker & Nick Tucker, Daniel Prim, Tony Jones & Jessica Jones, The Rob Dixon Steve Allee{ Quintet, Federico Ughi feat. Leo Genovese and Brandon Lopez, and, Neal Kirkwood Big Band.