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Lenard Simpson

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Article: Live Review

Billy Childs Quartet at the Newman Center

Read "Billy Childs Quartet at the Newman Center" reviewed by Geoff Anderson


Billy Childs Quartet Newman Center Denver, CO February 1, 2025 Billy Childs is equally at home in both the jazz and classical worlds. He has worked with prestigious ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and served as president of Chamber Music America, among ...

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Rift

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Lulu; Bird Dance; Sub Rosa; Frequency; Fragments; Jay; The River Will Decide; Rift.

Album

Switch

Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Switch; Pivot; Things Aren't What They Seem; Acquaintance; Cherry; Vanguard; Shadows; The Midnight Sky; Farewell.

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Article: Album Review

Kenny Reichert: Switch

Read "Switch" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Chicago guitarist Kenny Reichert works extremely hard to make his sound come across as casual on Switch. If you do not count the numerous discs with his partner Sara d'Ippolito Reichert, this is his third release as a leader. It follows Deep Breath (Shifting Paradigm Records, 2023) and returning from that previous outing are vocalist Alyssa ...

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Article: Album Review

Alex Beltran: Rift

Read "Rift" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Chicago-based saxophonist Alex Beltran delivers a tour de force with Rift, an exploration of identity in a musical form. Beltran, who grew up in two distinct cultural spheres, those of his Latino father and his white mother, describes in the liner notes how he never fit with either side of the family. This became a source ...

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Cascades

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Bottoms; Like No Other; South State Line Road; One Breath; Lost in Desolation; Homeostasis; No Froust; Undulation; Someday Soon; Code Switch.

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Notable Releases from Christian Dillingham and Others

Read "Notable Releases from Christian Dillingham and Others" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Here is a look at some notable albums released in the latter half of 2023. Ilya Dynov Bridges Self-Produced 2023 Drummer Ilya Dynov leads a small group session of straight-ahead jazz played with an edge and swinging deftness. The music runs the gamut from the rolling urgency ...

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Article: Album Review

Christian Dillingham: Cascades

Read "Cascades" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Chicago bassist Christian Dillingham is a truly versatile musician. In addition to excelling at various genres, including jazz, western classical and gospel, he appeared on singer Kirk Franklin's Grammy winner Long Live Love (RCA 2019). Dillingham is also an accomplished educator, composer and bandleader. He demonstrates these skills as he leads his quartet on his debut ...


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