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What Next?

By Russ Anixter

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: I Saw Her Standing There; Freddie’s Dead; I Walk on Guilded Splinters; Freeway Jam; Shakedown Street; Bird Song; A Remark You Made; Compared to What; No Quarter/Bitches Brew.

Out Of The Blue

By Lou Marini

Label: Atlantic Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: You Dirty Dog; Bubbles; Subway Faire; Fatman; Girl With No Name; Twister; UR So Nasty; Ami Gillaumes; Jake & Dory; A Bao A Qu; Danse Romanse; Klong; The Big Shebang

Best Laid Plans

By Jon Schapiro

Label: Summit Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Ugly Chic; Chameleon; Quicksilver; Solace; East Broadway Run Down; Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me; Best Laid Plans; Moment’s Notice; The Uncluttered Mind.

Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band: What Next?

by Jack Bowers
September 4, 2026

A big band by any other name... Arranger and orchestrator Russ Anixter has chosen to call his 11-piece ensemble the Hippie Big Band. Which is fine, Russ. Whatever works for you. Alas, much of the music on What Next? sounds as though it could have been imported from the mid- 20th century. ...

Lou Marini: A Solo Career Starting At The Age Of 80

by Mark McKergow
August 29, 2026

Saxophonist “Blue" Lou Marini came to the fore in the 1970s as a member of the Saturday Night Live Band and with The Blues Brothers on film, albums and stage. After a lifetime as an in-demand sideman (notably 26 years and counting with James Taylor), Lou has finally started to release albums under his own name, including Playtime (Hip ...

Schapiro 17: Best Laid Plans

by Jack Bowers
June 29, 2026

There are times when even the Best Laid Plans are unable to generate quite enough horsepower to realize their full promise and purpose. New York City-based composer and arranger Jon Schapiro clearly had a plan in mind for the third recording by his large ensemble, Schapiro 17. The plan evidently included broadening the horizons of contemporary ...

What Is?

By Russ Anixter

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: What Is Hip?; Dixie Chicken; Free Man in Paris/Freedom Jazz Dance; She Said, She Said; Heaven on Their Minds; Saint Stephen/Turn on Your Love Light; Uncle John’s Band; Hide Away; Into the Mystic; Whipping Post; Green Hornet.

Night City

By Neal Kirkwood

Label: Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records
Released: 2024

Michael Davis - Hip-Bone Big Band: Open City

by Jerome Wilson
July 20, 2023

Michael Davis is an accomplished trombonist who has had a long career of live and studio work accompanying a varied roster of big-name jazz and rock talents such as The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Bob Mintzer, Buddy Rich, Paul Simon, and Sarah Vaughan. He is also an established solo artist and composer who leads an imposing ...