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Kevin Dorn

Born in New York City, Kevin took up drumming at the age of 14. Since then, he has become one of the busiest drummers in traditional jazz. A solid timekeeper in the tradition of Cliff Leeman, Kevin's exciting career has included performances with artists such as Dan Barrett, Ed Polcer, Johnny Varro, Bob Wilber, Dan Levinson, Mark Shane, Terry Blaine, Howard Alden, Jon-Erik Kellso, Warren Vaché, and Allan Vaché. Kevin has performed with The Loren Schoenberg Big Band, Vince Giordano's Nighthawks, The Flying Neutrinos, The Flipped Fedoras, David Ostwald's Louis Armstrong Centennial Band, The Manhattan Rhythm Kings, Banu Gibson and the New Orleans Hot Jazz, and many others. Kevin has played at jazz festivals and jazz parties throughout the country, including the JVC Jazz Festival, Jazz at Chautauqua, the Atlanta Jazz Party, the Colorado Springs Jazz Party, the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Jazz Festival, the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, the Los Angeles Sweet and Hot Music Festival, and the Nairn Jazz Festival in Scotland

Ragology

By Ricky Alexander

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Wildcat Blues; Slidin’; Dizzy Fingers; The Buffalo Rag; Nola; You and a Canoe; Blackstick; Ragtime Oriole; Little Bits; Shreveport Stomp; Sweetheart o’ Mine.

Ricky Alexander: Ragology

by Jack Bowers
February 20, 2026

Ragtime takes its name from the ragged rhythmic patterns created by syncopated melodies played against a regular, steady bass line. The result is a lively and energetic sound that predates traditional jazz and swing. Among ragtime's foremost exponents was Scott Joplin, whose music was reintroduced to the public in 1973 via Paul Newman and Robert Redford's ...

Live at Birdland

By Conal Fowkes

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Introduction; Flee as a Bird/Oh, Didn’t He Ramble; Here Comes the Hot Tamale Man; Dallas Blues; Ace in the Hole; Shreveport Stomp; Say “Si Si”; High Society; When I Leave the World Behind.

High Society New Orleans Jazz Band: Live at Birdland

by Jack Bowers
November 13, 2025

Long before Bird (Charlie Parker), Diz (Dizzy Gillespie), Prez (Lester Young), the Count (Count Basie) or the Duke (Duke Ellington) raised their voices, jazz was being performed, for audiences large and small, in New Orleans and other cities and towns along the Mississippi River and elsewhere, lending those yet to come the bedrock from ...

Just Found Joy

By Ricky Alexander

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: People Will Say We’re in Love, Sweet Lorraine, King Porter Stomp, Promenade, It Had to Be You, Just One of Those Things, High Society, Fine and Dandy, Don’t Blame Me, Spring Is Here, The Touch of Your Lips, Rubber Plant Rag.

The Song in Our Soul

By Mark Shane

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Keep a Song in Your Soul; Delta Bound; In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town; Wake Up! Chill’un, Wake Up!; El Rado Scuffle; Roses in December; It’s Been So Long; The Day You Came Along; Rompin’ in ’44; Sweetheart O’ Mine; River, Stay ‘Way from My Door.

Ricky Alexander: Just Found Joy

by Nicholas F. Mondello
June 18, 2024

The odd picture on the cover of Ricky Alexander's Just Found Joy is neither a takeaway from The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (Capitol, 1966) album cover, nor a play on the GOAT acronym. Actually, the album art was photographed at the Store Barns Farm in Downstate New York. This is a superb album of a dozen ...

The Palomar Trio: The Song in Our Soul

by Jack Bowers
January 24, 2024

On The Song in Our Soul, the members of the Palomar Trio look over their collective shoulders to a time when swing was king and musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Art Tatum, Ethel Waters, Gene Krupa, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw and many of their peers were household names. In fact, the trio ...

Molly Ryan: Sweepin' the Blues Away

by Jack Bowers
March 28, 2023

New York City-based vocalist Molly Ryan makes an auspicious impression from the outset on her latest album, leading her splendid back-up quartet through the charming song, “Get Yourself a New Broom (and Sweep the Blues Away)" a light-hearted but little- known treasure written in 1938 by Ted Koehler & Harold Arlen. Ryan seems ...