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Marvin Sewell
Marvin Sewell was born and raised in Chicago. He learned how to play the guitar by hanging out with many Chicago basement bands. At that time, Marvin was exposed to a variety of styles of music such as: Blues, Gospel, and Soul. Rock, and Fusion. At the same time, he played in a Catholic church in a guitar band playing acoustic guitar. A few years later he became interested in Jazz. In high school, he started playing with the Malcolm X Community College Big Band. From there he started playing with many famous local Chicago musicians such as Von Freeman, Ramsey Lewis, Billy Branch, Jody Christian, Big Time Sarah, and Barbara La Shore, He attended Roosevelt University in Chicago where he studied Composition. Marvin moved to New York in 1990
Figure In Blue
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Abide With Me; Hina, Hanta, the way of Peace; Figure In Blue, memoriesof Duke; Desolation
Sound; Ruminations;
Chulahoma; Song My Lady Sings'; The Ghost Of Lady Day; Blues For Langston; Heaven; Black
Butterfly: Ancient Rain;
Hymn To The Mother, for Zakir; Somewhere.
Music by distinguished American Women Composers plus remembering guitarist Phil Upchurch
by Hobart Taylor
Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Yulia Musayelyan “Strange Times" from Strange Times (Outside In) 00:08 Charles Lloyd /Jason Moran/Marvin Sewell “Heaven" from Figure in Blue (Blue Note) 7:38 Jennifer Grim “Wish Sonatine" (Valerie Coleman-Composer) from Through Broken Time 2 (New Focus) 13:52 Sam Newsome/Jean-Michel Pilc “All the Things You Are" from Cosmic Unconsciousness Unplugged (Self-Produced) 26:00 Host ...
Don Ball’s Favorite Jazz Albums of 2025
by Don Ball
Whether these are best releases in 2025 or not, they are the ones that resonated most with me. And 2025 seemed a good year for guitarists; they were often a driving force on many of these recordings and an important element in the mood and atmosphere of the songs. There's Anthony Pirog on Skullcap's Snakes of ...
Charles Lloyd: Figure In Blue
by Jack Kenny
Jazz listeners with long memories will remember that Charles Lloyd was not always as revered as he is today. In the 1960s, his association with the “Summer of Love" and San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury scene led some to question his seriousness, seeing him as flirting with commercialism. Six decades on, that perception has aged away. Lloyd's work ...
Charles Lloyd, Enjoying the Comforts and Poetics of Home, at the Lobero
by Josef Woodard
Charles Lloyd Delta Trio Lobero Theatre Santa Barbara, CA March 14, 2025 Seasoned saxophonist Charles Lloyd, now 87 and alighting major stages, festivals and accolade zones around the world, is considered one of the last of the old school jazz legends standing--and going strong, in his mellowed, wise and distinctively voiced ...
Embracing Dawn
Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Good Morning Heartache; Divergent Journeys; Ain't That the Same; Thought Bubbles I (Can We Talk?);
Serenade of an Angel; MMC; Thought Bubbles II (Do Not Disturb); Braises de Requiem I (The Embers
Requiem, Mov. I); Embracing Dawn.
Blues Blood
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Matte Glaze; Funmi; Motion; Everything; Air (Interlude); Dark Eyes Smile; Apparition; Assembly
(Interlude); Afterlife Residence Time; Mosphit; Set! (Interlude); If That Blood Runs East; Your
Memory
(Interlude); Blues Blood.
Christian Sands: Embracing Dawn
by Mike Jurkovic
Way back in the mottled history of the 1950s and '60s, record biz guys in sharkskin might kick down a DJ's door and bark: “You gotta to hear this single!" But who truly listens to and what exactly is a single these days? Add in the disturbing though elusive truth that any single can ...
45th Annual Tri-C JazzFest
by C. Andrew Hovan
45th Annual Tri-C JazzFest Playhouse Square Cleveland, Ohio June 20-22, 2024 It has become somewhat of a reoccurring quip on social media to lament that so many so-called jazz festivals have booked acts that stray far from the jazz genre to keep these events afloat financially. Cleveland's Tri-C JazzFest has certainly ...
