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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
La Tanya Hall: If Not Now, When...
by Pierre Giroux
With If Not Now, When... , La Tanya Hall emerges not just as a vocalist but as a storyteller, deeply connected to the quiet power of a well-chosen song. This is her most personal statement yet, an album crafted with intention rather than for show, where each track earns its place through lyrical depth and emotional ...
If Not Now, When...
Label: Blue Canoe Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Pretty Eyes; Let's Burn Down the Cornfields; Long As You're Living; A Turtle's Dream; Tender As
a Rose; Lullabye of the Leaves; Azure; Day Dreaming.
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 ...
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.
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.
