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Leigh Pilzer
“A force of nature on the baritone.” –Adam Narimatsu, CapitalBop
Washington, DC native Leigh Pilzer is a baritone saxophone specialist, composer, arranger, and educator. Her performance resume includes appearances with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore’s Soulful Symphony, and more. She is also a bandleader in her own right, leading the Leigh Pilzer Startet, her all-star quartet/quintet; organ group Leigh Pilzer’s Low Standards; and her latest project, Leigh Pilzer’s Seven Pointed Star. She also co-leads PALS, a duo with bassist Amy Shook and JLQ, the Jen Krupa-Leigh Pilzer Quintet. Pilzer has presented her groups to enthusiastic audience response at top venues including Blues Alley, Keystone Korner, the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, and the Atlas Performing Arts Center, to name a few.
Tappin' Thru Life
Label: Diva Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Tappin' Thru Life Overture; I've Never Been in Love Before; Every Day I Have the Blues; I've Grown
Accustomed to Her Face; Get Me to the Church on Time; Ballin' the Jack; Honeysuckle Rose; Come
Fly with Me; All the Way; I've Got You Under My Skin; Luck Be a Lady; Ko-Ko; I Can't Give You
Anything But Love; It's Only a Paper Moon; Smile; L.O.V.E.; It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That
Swing; Too Marvelous for Words.
The DIVA Jazz Orchestra: Tappin' Thru Life
by Jack Bowers
Tappin' Thru Life is more than the title of a jazz album; it is a philosophy, one that guided Maurice Hines through most of his 80 years and all of his epic career as an acclaimed tap dancer and entertainer. The album is based on Hines' autobiographical stage show of that name whose music director, drummer ...
Beatin' the Odds
By Leigh Pilzer
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: SKCC; Lin; Waterkress; The Platinum Taxi; Beatin’ the Odds; And Then It Stopped; Last Year,
Lost Year; How Much Longer; Where Will We Go?
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2024
by Jack Bowers
On a personal note, this is unlike any “best of the year" summaries I've written during my more than twenty-five years as a reviewer for All About Jazz. The reason is that I fell in late April and broke my left femur. As a result, I completed no reviews from that time until early September, a ...
Warren Wolf, Alexis Cole, Sonny Rollins and Leigh Pilzer
by Joe Dimino
From the mind of veteran musician Leigh Pilzer, we get right into the 869th Episode of Neon Jazz. With her Seven Pointed Star, we hear the title track off her 2024 album called Beatin' the Odds. From there, we journey around a stellar line up of veterans with new albums in 2024 with Julieta Eugenio, Natalie ...
Yuhan Su, Marta Sanchez, and Jason Robinson
by Jerome Wilson
This episode has new sounds from Yuhan Su. Marta Sanchez, and Jason Robinson among others as well as older music from Tadd Dameron, Al Hibbler, and Jerry Granelli. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Yuhan ...
India Gailey, Michael Pagán, Findkestilts, Jay Sanders and more
by Cheryl K.
During this week's two-hour program of Jazz and improvised music--cellist and vocalist India Gailey, pianist Noah Haidu, the quartet Findkestilts, and mandolinist Hamilton de Holanda and pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba. Playlist Dinah Washington “I'll Never Stop Loving You" from Dinah Washington (Roulette) 2:14 Lori Bell “Black Narcissus" from Recorda Me: Remembering Joe Henderson (Lori Bell) ...
New Releases By Tardo Hammer, Michelle Nicolle, April Varner, Karen Mack, Sweet Megg; Remembering Angela Bofill & More
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Tardo Hammer, Michelle Nicolle, April Varner, Karen Mack and Sweet Megg, with birthday shoutouts to writer Joan Whitney (Candy, Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens), Lena Horne, Tierney Sutton, Madeline Eastman, Jocelyn Barth, Erica Seguine and Queen Esther, among others plus a remembrance for the legendary Angela Bofill. Happy listening ...
Leigh Pilzer, Patricia Brennan, and Mark Masters
by Jerome Wilson
This episode features recent releases by Leigh Pilzer and the duo of Mal Waldron and Steve Lacy. It also includes older music by Patricia Brennan, Michael Gibbs, and the Mark Masters Ensemble. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & ...
