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Ben Markley: Tell the Truth

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by Jack Bowers
March 29, 2025

Ben Markley, who has already earned wide praise as a pianist, educator and leader of the Ben Markley Big Band, brandishes his sturdy composing and arranging chops on Tell the Truth, wherein he leads an able-bodied Colorado-based quintet through its paces on eight of his typically melodious and sunlit original compositions. According to ...

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Don't Bring It Up

June 19, 2025

Album: Tell the Truth
By Ben Markley
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 06:06

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7X7BY7

By Brian Lynch

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: In the Riv (7x3); High Point of the Hang (7x5); Sympathetic Vibrations (7x7); On the Silver Road (7x4); Academy Blues (7x8); Greeting on 87th St. (7x6); Finnegan’s Garden (7x9).

Article: Album Review

Brian Lynch: 7X7BY7

by Jack Bowers
December 13, 2024

The number seven, which for reasons shrouded in mystery, has long been considered a symbol of good luck, lies at the core of trumpeter Brian Lynch's latest album, 7X7BY7, which consists of seven themes performed by seven musicians with each number clocking in at precisely six seconds past seven minutes. Furthermore, it is said, “the...process [of ...

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Storybook

By Markus Rutz

Label: JMARQ Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Something’s Blowing In 4:02 2. Interlude for the Weekend 0:27 3. The Everyday Escapades of M&M 5:47 4. Third Coasting 5:18 5. Interlude of Values & Education 0:27 6. Buffalo - by Kenny Dorham 6:54 7. Mr.E 5:46 8. Short Story - by Joe Henderson 5:42 9. Interlude on a Nostalgic Afternoon 0:34 10. Just for a Thrill - by Lil Hardin Armstrong 4:20 11. Soul Eyes - by Mal Waldron 6:26 12. Right at Home 3:57

Article: Album Review

Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra: Kemet (The Black Land)

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by Jack Bowers
August 10, 2023

On Kemet (The Black Land), trombonist/composer Javier Nero pays homage to a highly advanced African civilization that flourished before the Egyptian kingdom was established and thousands of years before the Greek and Roman empires that are hailed today as the pillars of modern/western culture. Even though Kemet is all but forgotten in 2023, Nero (whose name ...

Article: Live Review

Leavenworth Jazz Festival 2023: A First Breath of Mountain Air

by Paul Rauch
May 28, 2023

Leavenworth Jazz Festival Leavenworth, WA May 5-7, 2023 The one-hundred-and-twenty-mile journey from the city of Seattle, to the village of Leavenworth, WA is one of perilous beauty and wonderment. Once arriving in the town of Monroe at the foot of the Cascade Mountains, Highway 2 east rises majestically over the Cascade summit ...

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One Saturday in September - Live from Merrimans' Playhouse

By Markus Rutz

Label: Rutz Music Works (self-released)
Released: 2022
Track listing: Serenity (live); Well You Needn't (live); Rhapsodic Theme Two - Golson's Vibe (live)

News: Recording

Chicago Trumpeter & Composer Markus Rutz announces new album 'Storybook'

December 16, 2022

JMARQ Records is pleased to announce the February 17, 2023 release of Storybook, celebrated trumpeter and composer Markus Rutz’ sixth studio release as a bandleader. Fresh off the heels of the release of his critically acclaimed albums Blueprints – Figure One, Blueprints – Figure Two, and One Saturday in September, Rutz’ new innovative work takes listeners on a musical journey from past to present, ...

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One Saturday in September Live from Merrimans’ Playhouse

By Jarrard Harris

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: 1. Serenity (by Joe Henderson) 2. Well You Needn't (by Thelonious Monk) 3. Rhapsodic Theme Two - Golson's Vibe (by George Gershwin & arrangement by Markus Rutz)