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Kenny Barron's unmatched ability to mesmerize audiences with his elegant playing, sensitive melodies and infectious rhythms is what inspired "The Los Angeles Times" to name him "one of the top jazz pianists in the world" and "Jazz Weekly" to call him "The most lyrical piano player of our time." Philadelphia is the birthplace of many great musicians, including one of the undisputed masters of the jazz piano: Kenny Barron. Kenny was born in 1943 and while a teenager, started playing professionally with Mel Melvin's orchestra. This local band also featured Barron's brother Bill, the late tenor saxophonist
Sunset To Dawn
By Kenny Barron
Label: Time Traveler Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Sunset; A Flower; Swamp Demon; Al-Kifha; Delores S.F.; Dawn.
On Fire: Live from the Blue Morocco
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2025
Track listing:
CD 1:
Crisis; Up Jumped Spring; Echoes of Blue; True Colors/Breaking Point.
CD 2:
Bye Bye Blackbird; Summertime; Breaking Point.
Return of the Muse
by Patrick Burnette
Some indie labels find a happy home in the afterlife--think Prestige, Contemporary, et al who thrived for years under the Fantasy banner and are now sheltered under the wing of Craft Records. Others aren't so lucky. Super-producer and Record Store Day regular Zev Feldman has now made an enterprise of rescuing records from the long-dormant Muse ...
The "Jazz Detective" Finds A New Muse, Reissues Lost Classics
by Joshua Weiner
Joe Fields (1929-2017) was a jazz producer and record executive who worked for Columbia, MGM, Verve, and, most impactfully, at Prestige in the 1950s and 1960s. Shortly after Prestige was sold to Fantasy in 1971, ending a classic era for the storied label, Fields founded Muse Records to document the next phase in jazz. Muse brought ...
Kenny Barron: Sunset To Dawn
by Pierre Giroux
The reissue of Kenny Barron's debut album Sunset To Dawn by Time Traveler Recordings invites listeners to revisit the moment when one of jazz's most lyrical and refined stylists first stepped into the spotlight as a leader. Initially recorded in 1973 for Muse Records, this session now appears as a limited-edition 180-gram LP, delivering a warm, ...
The Birdland Big Band: Storybook: The Music of Mark Miller
by Jack Bowers
Storybook, the third recording by the New York City-based Birdland Big Band, is subtitled “the music of Mark Miller" and is designed to showcase compositions and arrangements by that multi-talented artist who doubles (triples) as the band's lead trombonist. Miller wrote or co-wrote half of the album's 10 colorful and impressive numbers (11 if one counts ...
Honoring Mutual Mentorship for Musicians on the occasion of their festival October 4th, 2025 at Roulette in Brooklyn
by Hobart Taylor
Honoring Mutual Mentorship for Musicians on the occasion of their festival October 4th, 2025 at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, New York, featuring Sara Serpa, Kenny Barron, Jen Shyu, Yuhan Su, Immanuel Wilkins and many more... Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Jen Shyu “Lament for Breonna Taylor" from Zero Grasses: Ritual for the Loses (Pi Records) ...
Linda May Han Oh: Jazz e innovazione
by Frank Housh
Linda May Han Oh è una delle artiste più innovative ed affermate della scena jazz di oggi, con collaborazioni che vanno da Dave Douglas a Vijay Iyer e Pat Metheny. L'ultimo album, Strange Heavens (Biophilia Records), vede la partecipazione di Ambrose Akinmusire e Tyshawn Sorey, già presenti in Honey from a Winter Stone di Akinmusire.
A Farewell to Madrid's Café Central
by Artur Moral
It happened to Chicago with The London House and The Velvet Lounge; it happened to San Francisco with the Black Hawk Club and the Keystone Corner; and, of course, it happened to New York City with Cafe Society, Sweet Basil, Village Gate and Jazz Standard. It has also happened in many other places and cities around ...
