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John Bernard Riley is an American jazz drummer and educator. He has performed with Woody Herman, Stan Getz, Milt Jackson, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, John Scofield, Bob Mintzer, Gary Peacock, Mike Stern, Joe Lovano, Franck Amsallem, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, John Patitucci, and Bob Berg. Riley began playing drums at age eight, after receiving a snare drum as a gift. In the biographies provided to the media, Riley acknowledges the early support of his parents, John and Mary Ann. While attending fourth grade in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, Riley began studying percussion privately with Thomas Sicola, Jr

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Bass & Face

By Chuck Bergeron

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: An Occasional Man; Emily; Devil May Care; I Thought About You; When I Drink; Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West; Detour Ahead; Audubon Zoo/IKO-IKO; Fair Weather; Take The Wrinkles Out Of Your Birthday Suit; Analog; Duke Ellington's Sound Of Love; Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans.

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On My Own Time

By Darren Litzie

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: On My Own Time; Moonlight in Vermont; Just After Three; Maybe We'll Try; If Only I Could Forget; Brief Distraction-Interlude 1; Busy Work; Before Tomorrow; A Short Walk From Here; In Walked Bud; Last-Minute Thought-Interlude 2; Time of the Season

Article: Album Review

Darren Litzie: On My Own Time

Read "On My Own Time" reviewed by Don Ball

by Don Ball
February 25, 2026

Pianist Darren Litzie's sophomore release as a leader, On My Own Time, eschews the horns of his first release and takes a simpler approach, with bassist Chris DeAngelis and drummer John Riley providing the solid rhythm backing. Litzie also wrote two-thirds of the tunes and shows an imaginative approach to composition, writing in different beat-centric genres ...

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The Journey

By Gabriele Comeglio

Label: Dodicilune Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Shuffle Tune; Bassic Instinct; Song for Caterina; Bop Street; Just in Case: For My Parents; Night Roads; South; Che M’importa Del Mondo; Frully; Alice; Lullaby of the Leaves; Prelude.

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Dial and DeRosa: Keep Swingin'

Read "Keep Swingin'" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 30, 2024

Keep Swingin', a splendid new album from pianist Garry Dial and drummer Rich DeRosa, features “the music of Charlie Banacos." Charlie who? you may ask. And the answer is, there are jazz educators, and then there was Charlie Banacos, whose talent and ingenuity in the classroom influenced and inspired countless jazz musicians for more than fifty ...

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My Horizon

By Darren Litzie

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (Cole Porter), My Horizon (Darren Litzie), Up, Up and Away (Jimmy Webb), Faded Portrait (Darren Litzie), Blues for 3 (Darren Litzie), Question and Answer (Pat Metheny), Lucky Guess (Darren Litzie), Before Too Long (Darren Litzie), I Have Dreamed (Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II), Hackensack (Thelonious Monk)

Article: Interview

Bill Stewart: Ain't No Funk In Iowa

by Mike Brannon
February 19, 2022

This article was first published at All About Jazz in May 2002. Upon joining The John Scofield group in the mid '80s it seemed like drummer Bill Stewart just appeared out of nowhere. Of course, Scofield and Stewart did a number of tours and studio dates together while word got around about Stewart's unique ...

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Johnathan Blake: un batterista ai vertici

by Angelo Leonardi
January 31, 2022

Accolto tra i lavori migliori dell'anno dalle massime riviste internazionali Homeward Bound, è il quarto disco di Johnathan Blake e il debutto con l'etichetta Blue Note. L'album ha finalmente evidenziato le doti di compositore e leader del 45enne batterista di Philadelphia, figlio del violinista John Blake Jr., noto partner di McCoy Tyner, Archie Shepp, James Newton, ...

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Light In The World

By Ratko Zjaca

Label: In And Out Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Light in the World; Storyteller; Across the Gateway; River Spirit; Where to Stay; Many Miles Away; Heart of Season; Trilogy Evolution; Just Like It Is.