Results for "Mike Connors"

Mike Connors

Philippe Crettien: Healthy Trail

by Sue Yang
July 11, 2026

Philippe Crettien's Healthy Trail is a chordless trio album built around implication. Written for saxophone, bass and drums, it removes piano and guitar from the ensemble and makes that open space the source of the music's tension, clarity and risk. Harmony emerges through motion: Barry Smith's bass establishing temporary ground, Crettien's saxophone placing shifting triadic colors ...

Healthy Trail

By Philippe Crettien

Label: Artist-released
Released: 2025
Track listing: Proper Boundaries; Healthy Trail; Prudence; Chord on Chord; Hope; Us; Malecon; Vashon Island; 12 Tone Tune.

No Goodbyes

By John Stein

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2023
Track listing: Zip Line; Falling Grace; Dig Blues; What If Love Never Dies; Courage; Triste; No Goodbyes; Jardin del Turia; Our Love Will See Us Through; Every Stepping Stone; Groundswell

Songs from the Boardwalk

By Rob Ames

Label: Self-released
Released: 2016
Track listing: And Then I Cried; Thinking of George; The Syzygy; The Boardwalk Shuffle; Flamenco Blue; Complacency; Sympathy.

Serendipity

By John Stein

Label: Whaling City Sound
Released: 2021
Track listing: Alfie’s Theme; On Green Dolphin Street; Well, You Needn’t; Labor of Love; Insensatez (How Insensitive; Bing Bang Boom!; Elvin!; The Night Has a Thousand Eyes; East of the Sun and West of the Moon; Happy Hour

John Stein: Serendipity

by Jack Bowers
July 11, 2021

Guitarist John Stein's Massachusetts-based trio strides in with charm and confidence on Serendipity, a frame of mind that prevails throughout an album whose name was inspired by a concert-that-wasn't but eventually was, thanks to live-streaming, during a massive and deadly global pandemic. That concert, planned for an outdoor venue in New Bedford, was derailed by Covid-19 ...

One Of Those Nights: 'Serendipity' Is The Sound Of John Stein And His Trio Finding A Way To Get Beautiful Music Into The Hearts And Hands Of Jazz Fans, Despite The Odds

June 9, 2021

Like many serious musicians, John Stein was trying to find a way to reach his audience following the Covid-19 breakout. He had just released Watershed, a career- defining recording to mark his planned retirement from Berklee College of Music, where he was an acclaimed educator. Of course, as with live music in general, the tour in ...

Jason Anick & Jason Yeager: United

by Mark Sullivan
March 23, 2017

Violinist Jason Anick and pianist Jason Yeager share an open-minded approach to jazz. Anick is best known as a member of the neo-Gypsy Jazz ensemble Rhythm Future Quartet , while Yeager performs post-bop and third stream music. But this album presents a mostly original, eclectic collection of music where both of them frequently step out of ...

John Funkhouser: Still

by Neri Pollastri
October 8, 2014

Pianista, bassista e compositore proveniente dalla musica classica e dalla marcata curiosità musicale, John Funkhouser è da tempo alla testa di un trio che, con questo, giunge al quarto CD in quindici anni. Il leader è affiancato da Greg Loughman al contrabbasso e Mike Connors alla batteria, ma in questo lavoro vi si aggiungono in alcune ...