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Karolina Strassmayer

Ronnie Cuber: Baritone Boss

by Mark McKergow
September 14, 2026

Ronnie Cuber (1941-2022) made his mark on the jazz world as a versatile and muscular baritone saxophonist. Born in New York on Christmas Day 1941, he started on tenor saxophone but switched to baritone at 17, attracted by the vacant chair in Marshall Brown's Newport Jazz Youth Band (which also featured lifelong colleagues Eddie Gomez and Michael ...

Plans & Drawers

By Florian Ross

Label: Toy Piano Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Catania; ELD1; Clapham Junction; Lore; Think Out Loud; Here, My Love; Surf & Turf; Now And Then And Now Again; 1988; Body & Soul.

Big Band Bass

By WDR Big Band

Label: Bass Lion
Released: 2025
Track listing: Sonatinita; In The Hills; Blue Ballon; Kléopatre’s Secret; You Can Call Him Maestro; Dahlia Garden; The Baron's Dilemma; Sergio.

Bluegrass

By Bob Mintzer

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.

WDR Big Band featuring John Goldsby and Bob Mintzer: Big Band Bass

by Artur Moral
November 7, 2025

What better way to bid farewell to a long, fruitful relationship than with a mutual gift? That is the decision John Goldsby and the extraordinary WDR Big Band made after 30 years of intense collaboration. Extended partnerships are perhaps not too frequent in today's jazz landscape, even in the more conducive orchestral realm: well-known are the ...

WDR Big Band: Bluegrass

by Jack Bowers
April 8, 2025

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 ...

Speak Your Truth

By Karolina Strassmayer

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.

Jazz Advice: The Practical and the Profound, Part 2

by Monk Rowe
November 2, 2024

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

by Hrayr Attarian
July 25, 2024

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 ...