Results for "Lance Reed"

Lance Reed

A World That Bears a Question

By Madre Vaca

Label: Madre Vaca Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Janacek's Sinfonietta; Aomame; 1Q84; Fuka-Eri; Tengo; Komatsu; Irretrievably Lost; The Professor; Buzzcut & Ponytail; Refreshing Iced Barley Tea; Sakigake; If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation; Town of Cats; The Little People; Chekhov's Gun; Strong Green Tea; On Top of the Slide; There Are Two Moons in the Sky; The Dead Goat; The Keeper of the Beat; Air Chrysalis; Leader; We Can No Longer Hear the Voice; Calming Roasted Hojicha Tea; Tamaru; Ushikawa; The Bottom of the Sea; Willow House

Knights of the Round Table

By Madre Vaca

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Lady of the Lake; Galahad; Excalibur; The Knights of the Round Table; Camelot; The Holy Grail; Merlin; King Arthur; Guinevere; Lancelot.

Madre Vaca: Knights of the Round Table

by Jack Bowers
October 26, 2023

The legend of King Arthur and Camelot is depicted musically on Knights of the Round Table, the sixth album by the Florida-based eleven-member ensemble, Madre Vaca, whose themes are composed by drummer Benjamin Shorstein. While Knights is presented as a ten-part suite, there seems to be no connecting tissue aside from the names ...

It Never Entered My Mind

By Sarah Lee

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: One by One; It Never Entered My Mind; Nutville; Sweet n Sour; Freedom Sound; Ping Pong.

Blue Muse: It Never Entered My Mind

by Hrayr Attarian
July 26, 2021

Blue Muse, the ensemble that tenor saxophonist Sarah Lee founded, plays mainstream jazz with elegance and vigor. The group's second recording, the delightful It Never Entered My Mind, is an engaging batch of standards crackling with vibrant spontaneity which highlights both the distinctive virtuosity and the combined artistry of the musicians involved. Pianist Horace ...

Winterreise

By Juan Rollan

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Good Night; The Weathervane; Frozen; Loneliness; The Gray Head; The Crow; Last Hope; The Stormy Morning; The Sun Dogs; The Hurdy-Gurdy Man.

Madre Vaca: Winterreise

by Jack Bowers
June 24, 2020

For its third recording, the Florida-based jazz octet Madre Vaca has chosen to perform music by Franz Schubert—hold it; stop right there! Music by who? Yes, that's what it says—music by none other than Franz Schubert (1797-1828), an Austrian composer of what we know as classical music who in his brief lifetime wrote more than 600 ...

Mica Bethea: Stage 'N Studio

by Jack Bowers
October 15, 2017

When listening to the Mica Bethea Big Band's generally admirable two-CD set, Stage 'n Studio, the first thought is, “Why hasn't anyone done this before?" That query is immediately replaced by a second thought: “Perhaps someone has and we simply overlooked it." In either case, Bethea's decision to perform (basically) the same material in a recording ...

The Mica Bethea Big Band: Stage 'N Studio

by Jerome Wilson
August 8, 2017

A young composer from Jacksonville, Florida, Mica Bethea shows an impressive command of big band writing and arranging on this set. Traces of all the usual modern large ensemble influences can be heard in his work, but he also brings his own ideas to the table and creates something fresh and energetic. This is ...