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Pete Mills: This Is Now

Read "This Is Now" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 15, 2026

As usual, swing is king on This Is Now, Canadian-born tenor saxophonist and composer Pete Mills' sixth recording as leader, one wherein the high-powered opening number (and title song) sets the pace for what is to come on this bright and upbeat session while showing that Mills and his quintet mean serious business. As ...

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Pete Mills: This Is Now

Read "This Is Now" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
April 28, 2026

Let us imagine asking a sociologist whether something like musical FOMO, fear of missing out, exists. Pete Mills makes a convincing case that it does with This Is Now. Even though we have the recorded evidence, there is a lingering sense that something special happened in the room, something listeners can hear but not fully share. ...

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Black Gold Orchestra: Genesis

by Jack Bowers
December 8, 2023

Two years after it was formed by drummer Larry Wilson in 2021, the impressive Atlanta, Georgia-based Black Gold Orchestra has released its debut album, Genesis, a handsome medley of original compositions by Wilson and saxophonist Frank Houston complementing others by Cedar Walton, Horace Silver, Charles Earland and OutKast (a.k.a. Andre Benjamin). Even though ...

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Michael Ragonese: Stracci

Read "Stracci" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
August 24, 2023

It would probably be a hyperbole to say that young jazz pianists are “a dime a dozen." Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that there are some stellar younger jazz pianists working today, such as Emmet Cohen, Kenny Banks Jr., and Paul Cornish, and that if you are going to play in this league, ...

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Legacy

By Tony Hightower

Label: Hightower Legacy Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Can't Hide Love; The Doll Gee Baby, Ain't It Good To You Rendezvous All To The Good Plain Jane Need You The Gift Love and Happiness Here's To Life

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Drummers As Leaders

by Jerome Wilson
December 23, 2018

Drummers are not necessarily the first musicians you think of as bandleaders but there is a long tradition of drummer-leaders in jazz from Chick Webb and Gene Krupa to Art Blakey and Paul Motian. Here are two current, lesser-known drummers who keep that lineage going in different formats. Enrique Haneine The Mind's Mural ...