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Kenneth Salters started his musical studies at age eleven when he began playing trombone in the sixth grade, but quickly switched to percussion a year later. Kenneth continued to grow in the field of percussion playing in different ensembles in high school including marching band, symphonic band, jazz ensemble, and the community's youth orchestra. In 1999, Kenneth attended the University of South Carolina on a percussion performance track. He initially had a hard time focusing on a specific genre as he played in virtually every ensemble the university had to offer from drumset for the show choir, to lead pan in the steel orchestra, to playing in the pit for the university's operas

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Jakob Dreyer: Roots and Things

Read "Roots and Things" reviewed by La-Faithia White

by La-Faithia White
March 2, 2026

Jakob Dreyer originally studying piano from age four, switched to bass at age 14. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Music and Drama in Hamburg, Germany, where he studied both classical and jazz. He then studied at the Amsterdam Conservatory before later establishing himself as an in- demand sideman in Germany for ...

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Roots and Things

By Jakob Dreyer

Label: Fresh Sound New Talent
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Fifth Floor; Constellation; Follower; June Tune; Land of 1000 Blue; With a Song In My Heart; Bodega; Downtime; Fight or Flight; MTA; Hold On; Room 1102; Roots and Things; Invisible; Big Apple; Choral Diner.

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Jakob Dreyer: Roots and Things

Read "Roots and Things" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 27, 2025

Bassist Jakob Dreyer searched for a new sound for his third album as a leader. He has, for his previous two releases, expressed his art via the standard quartet--sax, bass, drums and piano. For Roots and things, the piano is replaced by Sasha Berliner's vibraphone, joining the leader's other new-to-the-fold sidemen, saxophonist Tivon Pennicott and drummer ...

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Celebration

By Rufus Reid

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Celebration; Cedar's Blues; This I Ask Of You; It's Time To Shout It Out; Celestial Dance; Tranescape; Tippin'; You Make Me Smile; Falling In Love; One for Amos; The Rise of The Row.

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Pieces of Sanity

By Tim Chernikoff

Label: Self-Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Before You Ask; Tomorrow's Season; Orbits; I Got a Box; How it Goes; Shores of Nazare; Hung Jury; Trump Dump; We'll Keep on Meeting Till We Die; Room for One More

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Hindsight

By Charlie Porter

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Tipping Point; Hindsight; Walking the Plank; Things Fall Apart; Requiem; In Short Supply; Going Viral; Paradise Lost; For Ellis

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Charlie Porter: Hindsight

Read "Hindsight" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian

by Hrayr Attarian
May 19, 2021

Trumpeter Charlie Porter has proved himself to be an inventive composer whose works are simultaneously thought-provoking and mellifluous. His third and perhaps most immediately relevant release, Hindsight, draws inspiration from the events that came to public attention in 2020. Musically, the nine originals are fluid yet complex and are peppered with sounds from other genres such ...

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Charlie Porter: Hindsight

by Paul Rauch
March 4, 2021

Portland based trumpeter/composer Charlie Porter is back, and following the trend industry wide over the past year, has released a finely crafted collection of pieces attached to a social narrative. Hindsight examines how we act in hindsight dealing with the long term societal struggles of racism, corruption and inequality. While two of the pieces feature the ...

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Immigration Nation

By Charlie Porter

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Immigration Nation; Contradictions Within; Divergent Paths; Flight; Second Chance; The Unexpected; The Privileged Few; A New Vernacular; Survival of the Fittest; A Deepening Sense; Belonging; Chant.