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Mark Hetzler

Mr. Chair: Better Days

by Geannine Reid
January 29, 2024

In the perpetually evolving landscape of fusion music, Madison, Wisconsin's own Mr. Chair introduces another compelling chapter with their latest album Better Days. A quintet with a diverse sound palette, Mr. Chair's idiosyncratic mix of jazz, classical and prog-rock opens up endless possibilities for musical genre blending. Before we dive into the heart of ...

Better Days

By Jason Kutz

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: March; Fuchsia, ft. Buzz Kemper; Better Days; Elegy, ft. Eddie Barbash; Abandoned Cities; Appellation Spring; Britten's Written Rhythm; Fuchsia, ft. Eddie Barbash; Uncanny Valley.

Top 25 "Recommended" Album Reviews: 2016

by Michael Ricci
January 1, 2017

All About Jazz tracks how often an album review is recommended, and the reviews listed below represent our top 25 published in 2016. Local Color University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band One 2014-15 by Jack Bowers Published: February 9, 2016 Blues, Ballads, and Beyond: ...

Blues, Ballads, and Beyond: Influences Outside the Concert Hall

By Mark Hetzler

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Mystic with a Credit Card (Michael Colgrass); Javier’s Dialog (Dennis Llinas); Improvisation No. 1 (Enrique Crespo); Sonata for Trombone and Piano (Daniel Schnyder); Night Set for Trombone and Piano (Robert Suderburg); Doolallynastics (Bryan Lynn); Sonata (Jack Cooper).

Mark Hetzler: Blues, Ballads, and Beyond: Influences Outside the Concert Hall

by C. Michael Bailey
March 5, 2016

The trombone has proven not so an elusive lead instrument in jazz. But what of moving beyond jazz. There is classical literature addressing the instrument. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's bastardly father, Leopold, composed the first classical trombone piece, Concerto for Alto Trombone in 1756. Josef Haydn's brother, Michael, composed Concerto shortly after in 1764. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Jan ...