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Kenny Rampton

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis at Hancher Auditorium

by Joshua Weiner
February 11, 2026

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Hancher Auditorium Iowa City, IA January 29, 2026 Wynton Marsalis, the great trumpeter, composer and educator, founded New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) in 1987 and has served as its artistic director ever since. JALC, home to the Jazz at Lincoln ...

It's About Time

By Jason Forsythe

Label: Hollistic MusicWorks
Released: 2025
Track listing: Fourth Rights; Simple Samba; The Professor; It’s Got to Be Sweetness; Probandome; Home; Outer Limits; Sentimental; Sanctity.

Jason Forsythe: It's About Time

by Pierre Giroux
December 7, 2025

Trombonist and composer Jason Forsythe's debut recording as a composer, It's About Time, acts as both a declaration and a reflection: a declaration that his extensive apprenticeship with New York's jazz and Latin bands has cultivated a distinctive compositional voice, and a reflection of the various stylistic influences that have shaped his artistry. The nine-track album, ...

Jason Forsythe: It's About Time

by Jack Bowers
October 19, 2025

It's About Time likely refers to the fact that although Jason Forsythe has been a jazz composer of note for decades, this is the first-ever recording he has released as leader of his own ensemble, in this case a world-class sextet whose heavyweight front line is manned by trumpeter Brian Lynch, tenor saxophonist Walt Weiskopf and ...

Introducing Trumpeter Nathaniel Williford

by Sanford Josephson
October 6, 2025

Nathaniel Williford's jazz education began when he entered the sixth grade at Osceola County School for the Arts in Kissimmee, FL. “The magic started happening at our instrument trial day," he recalled, “selecting what we'd play in the band program. The trombone was what stood out to me. I could make some basic sounds on the ...

Introducing Trumpeter Kal Ferretti

by Sanford Josephson
May 7, 2025

When she was attending the LaGuardia High School of Music & Art, Kal Ferretti rode the subway to Manhattan from her home in Staten Island. The music on her phone was Art Blakey's Moanin' (Blue Note, 1958). “I would wear that out every train ride," she said. The 22-year-old Ferretti always wanted to play the trumpet, ...

University of Nevada-Las Vegas: Let The Good Times Roll

by Jack Bowers
April 3, 2025

If energy and enthusiasm were enough to earn a prize, the University of Nevada Las Vegas Jazz Ensemble 1 would surely have one in hand to salute its newest album, Let the Good Times Roll, a textbook lesson in buoyant and heavy-duty big-band jazz. While co-directors Dave Loeb and Nathan Tanouye enlist no fewer than seven ...

It Was Time

By Mark Ortwein

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: It Was Time; Peppermint Grande con Queso Mas; I Can’t Make You Love Me; After You’ve Gone; Basso Bossa; No More Butterflies; Lonnie’s Lament; Lunar Love; I Might Be Happy; Schizoid; Bigfoot.

Come A little Closer

By Linda Woodson

Label: Vegas Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Stolen Moments 05:05 2. FHJ 04:34 3. Feeling Coy 04:38 4. I'm In 02:34 5. You Are Something Special 05:23 6. All Roads Lead To Nashville 04:35 7. La Costa 06:03 8. Come A Little Closer 04:35