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Scott Whitfield & Friends: A Bi-Coastal Christmas

By JACK BOWERS

If trombonist Scott Whitfield's A Bi-Coastal Christmas cannot quicken your inner holiday spirit, that will not be for lack of trying. Whitfield uses every ribbon in the packet and every tool in the shed to help make the season bright, from big band to quintet, from duo to solo (Whitfield's trombone all by itself). Two of ...

To Be With You

By BRIAN SWARTZ

Label: DistroKid
Released: 2020
Track listing: 01. All of You (Cole Porter); 02. I Could Fall in Love With Her; 03. To Be With You (Music & Lyrics by Brian Swartz); 04. Jane’s Domain (Music by Brian Swartz); 05. Old Friends (Music & Lyrics by Brian Swartz); 06. Who’s Bob? - Short Version (Music & Lyrics by Brian Swartz); 07. Invitation (Bronislau Kaper); 08. Molly & Vern (Music by Brian Swartz); 09. Night and Day (Cole Porter); 10. The Very Thought of You (Ray Noble); 11. You Don’t Know What Love Is (Raye/DePaul); 12. Nobody Else But Me (Jerome Kern); 13. Too Marvelous For Words (Johnny Mercer/Richard Whiting); 14. Who’s Bob? - Long Version (Music & Lyrics by Brian Swartz); 15. To Be With You - Short Version (Music & Lyrics by Brian Swartz);

A Bi-Coastal Christmas

By SCOTT WHITFIELD

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Winter Wonderland; This Christmas; We Three Kings; A Time for Christmas; Carol of the Drum (The Little Drummer Boy); A Christmas Love Song; O Little Town of Bethlehem; The Christmas Song; Christmas in July; Silent Night.

When Lights Are Low

By KENNY KOTWITZ

Label: PM Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: When Lights Are Low; Skylark; Cry Me a River; Estate; When Sunny Gets Blue; Crazy She Calls Me; Darn That Dream; Harlem Nocturne; Manhattan; Mood Indigo; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; Stairway to the Stars; When Lights Are Low (reprise).

Running on Faith

By DIANE SCHUUR

Label: Jazzheads
Released: 2020
Track listing: Walking on a Tightrope; The Danger Zone; All Blues; Something So Right; Let It Be; The Sun Will Shine on You; Everybody Looks Good at the Starting Line; There is Always One More Time; Chicken; The Bitter Earth; Running on Faith; Way Over Yonder; Swing Low Sweet Chariot.

Night Talk: The Alec Wilder Songbook

By MARK MASTERS

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: You’re Free; Don’t Deny; Ellen; Moon and Sand; Baggage Room Blues; I Like It Here; Night Talk; Lovers and Losers; I’ll Be Around.

Kenny Kotwitz & the L.A. Jazz Quintet: When Lights Are Low

By JACK BOWERS

Imagine the following conversation: “Hi, my name is Kenny Kotwitz. I'm an accordionist and I want to record a centennial tribute to Art van Damme. Would you care to join me?" Okay, it probably didn't go down quite like that but the premise, in these days of rap, heavy metal, acid rock, new wave, bubblegum pop, ...

The Mark Masters Ensemble: Night Talk: The Alec Wilder Songbook

By JACK BOWERS

Night Talk, the eighth album by celebrated arranger Mark Masters' superb West Coast-based ensemble, is subtitled “The Alec Wilder Songbook Featuring Gary Smulyan." Indeed, Smulyan's is an impressive solo voice (but hardly the only one) in an eloquent songbook that appraises eight of Wilder's tasteful compositions, including a pair of his best-known melodies, “Moon and Sand" ...

Diane Schuur: Running on Faith

By C. MICHAEL BAILEY

Pianist and vocalist Diane “Deedles" Schuur and Wessell “Warmdaddy" Anderson may be the last jazz artists to have musically-anointed monikers, from a genre replete with them (Lester “Prez" Young, Billie “Lady Day" Holiday, Johnny “Rabbit" Hodges, Julian “Cannonball" Adderley and “John Birks “Dizzy" Gillespie). Schuur was named “Deedles" as a child by her mother. The name ...