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Kenny Ascher

The Birdland Big Band: Storybook—The Music Of Mark Miller

by Samuel Chell
June 3, 2026

Storybook: The Music Of Mark Miller is at one level the unfolding narrative of its 10 musical selections. At another, it is a tale about its primary author, Mark Miller, who prefaced his journey from Racine to New York City with a preliminary solo album, Mark Miller: The Return Of Slide Huxtable, before retaking the long ...

The Birdland Big Band at Birdland Jazz Club

by Dan Bilawsky
February 10, 2026

Happy hour on Friday is for unwinding, leaving the work week's burdens behind and--if you're lucky, and in the New York City area--catching The Birdland Big Band. That ensemble has long been holding court at its namesake club in a liminal space between afternoon and evening, filling the gap between life's structured nine-to-five commitments and the ...

Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller

By David DeJesus

Label: Birdland Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Storybook; Water Lily; Tenderly; Chorale and Alleluia; Sail Away; WTF; Close Your Eyes; Concierto de Aranjuez/Spain; The Doubledown; Nonsense.

Eric Vloeimans & Will Holshouser: Two For The Road-

by Pierre Giroux
October 20, 2022

The trumpet and the accordion may seem like an incompatible musical combination, and perhaps that may be so, except in the hands of Dutch trumpeter Eric Vloeimans and American accordionist Will Holshouser. Their dynamic and demonstrative interaction is on full display in this live concert recorded during a tour of the Netherlands in 2021 and is ...

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.

Moonglow

By Pam Brennan

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Old Devil Moon; I Hear Music; Lazy Afternoon; I Can't Give You Anything But Love; Let's Get Lost; It's Alright With Me; Moonglow; I've Got A Crush On You; Just One Of Those Things; All Of You; Make Someone Happy.

Birdland Big Band, New York, NY. December 28, 2011

by Ernest Barteldes
January 7, 2012

The Birdland Big Band directed by Tommy IgoeBirdlandNew York, NYDecember 28, 2011 On a chilly Wednesday night in December, drummer and bandleader Tommy Igoe directed the fifteen-piece Birdland Big Band as part of its weeklong headlining residence at the club the group has been calling home since its inception in ...

Birdland Big Band, New York, NY, December 28, 2011

by Dan Bilawsky
January 2, 2012

The Birdland Big Band directed by Tommy IgoeBirdlandNew York, NYDecember 28, 2011 Establishing a foothold in the world of big bands today is no easy feat. Strong label support and distribution (Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band, for example), constant touring, television appearances and festival appearances (as with Wynton Marsalis and ...

Westchester Jazz Orchestra / Sandvika Storband / Band of Bones

by Jack Bowers
November 13, 2011

Westchester Jazz OrchestraMaiden Voyage Suite WJO2010 The heavy-hitting Westchester Jazz Orchestra, one of whose ambitions under artistic director Mike Holober is to broaden its musical horizons, devotes its second album to renovating for a sixteen-member ensemble the music of pianist Herbie Hancock's classic recording Maiden Voyage (Blue Note, ...