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Bluegrass

Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2025
Track listing: Slip and Slide; Elzic’s Farewell/Yew Piney Mountain; Down in the Willow Garden; Green Lawn; Emy in the Woods; Replace It All; In the Lion’s Den; Dexter; Borealis.

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Article: Album Review

WDR Big Band: Bluegrass

Read "Bluegrass" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Violinist Darol Anger literally had a dream, one in which he was performing his bluegrass music not with the David Grisman Quintet or another small group but in front of a full-fledged big band--and in Germany, of all places. Even though it was a dream he thought would never come true, it was so vivid and ...

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Speak Your Truth

Label: Lilypad Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Speak Your Truth; Calling For You; Casting Shadows; Dream In Three Movements; Drum Roll, Please!; New Dawn Light; Cymbalese; Pause And Effect; Leave No Footprint; An Exchange Of Views; Motion Perpetual; Bursts Of Time.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Jazz Advice: The Practical and the Profound, Part 2

Read "Jazz Advice: The Practical and the Profound, Part 2" reviewed by Monk Rowe


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Article: Album Review

Karolina Strassmayer, Drori Mondlak and David Friedman: Speak Your Truth

Read "Speak Your Truth" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


The creative duo of saxophonist/flutist Karolina Strassmayer and drummer Drori Mondlak have been making exciting music together for over two decades. The pair seamlessly fuses the composed and the improvised on their engaging releases, that are usually, in intimate quartet settings. Speak Your Truth is a departure from their past work yet a logical evolution of ...

Article: Album Review

Chuck Owen: Renderings

Read "Renderings" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Nato dalla collaborazione tra la WDR Big Band e Chuck Owen, Renderings conferma quest'ultimo ai vertici dell'orchestrazione mainstream contemporanea e l'orchestra tedesca l'autorevole e avvincente ensemble che sappiamo. L'idea del progetto nasce quando la splendida sassofonista della big band, Karolina Strassmayer, ha chiesto a Chuck di arrangiare una sua composizione, stimolando il bandleader a impegnarsi in ...

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Renderings

Label: MAMA Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Knife’s Edge; …And Your Point Is?; Of Mystery and Beauty; This Love of Mine; Fall Calls; Arabian Nights; A Ridge Away; Canoe.

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Article: Album Review

Chuck Owen: Renderings

Read "Renderings" reviewed by Pierre Giroux


Renderings by Chuck Owen and The WDR Big Band is a remarkable jazz album that showcases the artist's mastery as a composer, arranger and bandleader. This release stands as a testament to Owen's innovative approach to jazz music blending traditional elements with modern influences to create a unique and captivating sonic experience. ...

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Article: Album Review

Chuck Owen and the WDR Big Band: Renderings

Read "Renderings" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Anyone who uses YouTube to search for contemporary jazz must surely be familiar with Germany's blue-ribbon WDR Big Band, as it is abundantly represented at the site. Bearing that in mind, it may come as no surprise to those seekers (and others) that the WDR's latest recording, on which it is paired with the esteemed Florida-based ...


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