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Ludwig Nuss

Ronnie Cuber: Baritone Boss

by Mark McKergow
September 14, 2026

Ronnie Cuber (1941-2022) made his mark on the jazz world as a versatile and muscular baritone saxophonist. Born in New York on Christmas Day 1941, he started on tenor saxophone but switched to baritone at 17, attracted by the vacant chair in Marshall Brown's Newport Jazz Youth Band (which also featured lifelong colleagues Eddie Gomez and Michael ...

Florian Ross/WDR Big Band: Plans & Drawers

by Jack Bowers
January 19, 2026

While Plans & Drawers may seem an odd name for an album of big-band jazz, the fact is that German-born composer and arranger Florian Ross had no “plans" to record before the opportunity arose to produce a second album with his home country's world-class WDR Big Band Cologne, and many of his compositions had been consigned ...

Plans & Drawers

By Florian Ross

Label: Toy Piano Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Catania; ELD1; Clapham Junction; Lore; Think Out Loud; Here, My Love; Surf & Turf; Now And Then And Now Again; 1988; Body & Soul.

Big Band Bass

By WDR Big Band

Label: Bass Lion
Released: 2025
Track listing: Sonatinita; In The Hills; Blue Ballon; Kléopatre’s Secret; You Can Call Him Maestro; Dahlia Garden; The Baron's Dilemma; Sergio.

Bluegrass

By Bob Mintzer

Label: MCG Jazz
Released: 2025
Track listing: Slip and Slide; Elzic’s Farewell/Yew Piney Mountain; Down in the Willow Garden; Green Lawn; Emy in the Woods; Replace It All; In the Lion’s Den; Dexter; Borealis.

WDR Big Band featuring John Goldsby and Bob Mintzer: Big Band Bass

by Artur Moral
November 7, 2025

What better way to bid farewell to a long, fruitful relationship than with a mutual gift? That is the decision John Goldsby and the extraordinary WDR Big Band made after 30 years of intense collaboration. Extended partnerships are perhaps not too frequent in today's jazz landscape, even in the more conducive orchestral realm: well-known are the ...

Life Songs

By Marshall Gilkes

Label: Alternate Side Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Fresh Start; Back in the Groove; Cora’s Tune; My Unanswered Prayer; All the Pretty Little Horses; Middle Ground; Sin Filtro; This Nearly Was Mine; Sugar Rush.

Marshall Gilkes: LifeSongs

by Dan Bilawsky
July 10, 2024

A sojourn in the city of Cologne is akin to a homecoming for Marshall Gilkes. The lauded trombonist spent four memorable years in that cultural hub beside the Rhine, making his mark within the ranks of the WDR Big Band's brass section, and his departure in December of 2013 did nothing to dampen his love for ...

Marshall Gilkes and WDR Big Band: Life Songs

by Jack Bowers
January 28, 2024

Maryland-born trombonist Marshall Gilkes, who spends much of his time working in and around various jazz bases in North America, returns to his “second" home, Cologne, Germany, for Life Songs, his eighth album as leader and third with his former employer, Cologne's world-class WDR Big Band. Gilkes spent the years 2010-13 in the WDR trombone section, ...