Results for "Justin Copeland"

Justin Copeland

Joyful Foundation

By Roy McGrath

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Ride; Probability; Fleeting Magic; Fue Nuestro; Joyful Foundation; Several Clear Moments; Remembrance; Valley of 1000 Devils.

Entre Amigos Pays Homage To Two Contemporary Composers on Magpie and Joyful Foundation

by Hrayr Attarian
August 3, 2026

The Chicago-based Entre Amigos is a dynamic collaborative quartet that performs refreshingly original music of contemporary artists. After their eponymous debut, which showcased the members' works, the ensemble released two albums, each spotlighting an inventive trumpeter's compositions. The 2025 Magpie consists entirely of pieces penned by Chicagoan Joe Clark. In comparison, the 2026 Joyful Foundation is ...

Entre Amigos: Joyful Foundation

by Jack Bowers
April 15, 2026

Joyful Foundation is a near-perfect name for the third album by Entre Amigos, wherein the Chicago-based quartet welcomes aboard one of the jazz world's rising stars, trumpeter Justin Copeland, to play--naturally--The Music of Justin Copeland on an album whose upbeat posture and sunny disposition help make it utterly charming and highly listenable. There is, ...

Conceptions

By Geoffrey Dean

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Came and Went; Phoenix Rising; Amidst a Dream; Conflagration; Road to Somewhere; Song for Hannah; Spiral; Prism; Arrival; What May Come.

Geoffrey Dean: Conceptions

by Jack Bowers
May 18, 2025

Conceptions, the second album by pianist Geoffrey Dean's able quartet, is a neatly drawn recording whose ten original compositions were written by members of the group: five by Dean, three by trumpeter Justin Copeland, and a pair by drummer Eric Binder. The concept behind the album was to showcase a diversity of genres ...

Foundations

By Geoffrey Dean

Label: AMP Music and Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Cyclic Episode; Blue Minor; My Conception; E.S.P.; Is That So; Low Tide; Nardis; Jet Stream; Yokada Yokada.

Geoffrey Dean Quartet: Foundations

by Jack Bowers
March 21, 2024

Foundations is a generally swinging debut recording by Washington, DC-based pianist and educator Geoffrey Dean's quartet. The studio date pays tribute to the groundwork laid by its storied predecessors, especially those steeped in the hard bop movement that helped change the course of jazz, well before Dean or his sidemen were born. The ...

Blue Minor

March 21, 2024

Album: Foundations
By Geoffrey Dean
Label: AMP Music and Recordings
Released: 2024
Duration: 4:30

Washington D.c. Based Jazz Pianist Geoffrey Dean Releases His New Quartet Album 'Foundations' Featuring Harish Raghavan, Justin Copeland, Eric Binder

March 8, 2024

Dr. Geoffrey Dean is a jazz pianist, composer, author and educator currently performing in the Washington D.C. area. Dean has recorded and performed with notable jazz musicians across the globe including Terell Stafford, Steve Turre, Greg Tardy, and many others. Dr. Dean recently published an educational book on jazz harmony titled Kenny Kirkland's Harmonic and Rhythmic ...