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Mike Davis has lived several distinct musical lives. He has been a student, a serious student of performance and of theory and of composition and of art. He has been a gig warrior, playing multiple shows in multiple styles on different instruments at different venues with different bands on the same day numerous days per week, week after week after week. He has been a record producer, sitting in front of a computer and a rack of mic pres and compressors – recording, editing, mixing, picking on artists until he finally feels they ‘got it’. He has been a recording artist, obsessing over whether the material is right, whether the concept is strong, whether the ensemble gets it

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Terry Waldo & The Gotham City Band: Treasury Volume 3

Read "Treasury Volume 3" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 6, 2026

When it comes to ragtime jazz, pianist, historian, author, and cultural preservationist Terry Waldo literally wrote the book. Said book is This Is Ragtime (Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc., 1976), widely regarded as the most thorough and authoritative guide to one of modern jazz's early precursors. Treasury, Volume 3 is the last in a trilogy of ...

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Treasury, Volume 2

By Terry Waldo

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Guess Who’s in Town; Snake Rag; Wabash Blues; Muscle Shoals; Smiles; Get Out and Get Under the Moon; The Smiler; Sweet Sue; Since My Best Gal Turned Me Down; Original Rags; Viper Mad.

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Glenn Crytzer: The Songbook Sessions (Volume 1, 1920)

Read "The Songbook Sessions (Volume 1, 1920)" reviewed by Kyle Simpler

by Kyle Simpler
December 7, 2025

Peter DeVries once wrote that “nostalgia ain't what it used to be," and this is certainly true when it comes to music. The greater the time distance, the harder it is to maintain authenticity. As a result, recreating music from the past might come across as something gimmicky or disingenuous with some performers. However, this is ...

Article: Live Review

Paul McCartney at Coors Field

by Geoff Anderson
October 19, 2025

Paul McCartney Coors Field Denver, CO October 11, 2025 A Paul McCartney concert, unlike most other musical events, is laden with cultural significance, bearing carts of baggage both good and bad; but mostly good. The weight of context complicates attempts at a dispassionate evaluation of the music. But it ...

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Terry Waldo: Treasury Volume 1

Read "Treasury Volume 1" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 2, 2025

Simply stated, and without hyperbole, Terry Waldo is an American musical treasure. He's also a treasure purveyor. A protégé of and mentored by Eubie Blake, Waldo is a player, composer, arranger, author, podcaster, theatrical director, and the noted oracle for ragtime and early American popular music. With Treasury Volume 1 (the first of a three-volume set), ...

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Steppin' Out

By Mike Davis

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Do Do Do, Everybody Loves My Baby, Love Will Find a Way, Half-Seas Over, My Fate Is in Your Hands, My Melancholy Baby, My Gal Sal, Cornet Chop Suey, Helen Gone, My Blue Heaven.

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Steppin' Out

By Mike Davis

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Do Do Do; Everybody Loves My Baby; Love Will Find a Way; Half-Seas Over; My Fate Is in Your Hands; My Melancholy Baby; My Gal Sal; Cornet Chop Suey; Helen Gone; My Blue Heaven.

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Spooky Jazz. Vol. 2

By Hannah Gill

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: I'd Rather Be Burned As A Witch; My Man's An Undertaker; Love Is A Necessary Evil; Hummin' To Myself; Love, Your Spell Is Everywhere; Oogie Boogie's Song; You Hurt Me; Hard Hearted Hannah; That Old Black Magic; Haunted House Blues; Shine On Harvest Moon

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Treasury Volume 1

By Terry Waldo

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Blame It on the Blues; I Get the Blues When It Rains; Wolverine Blues; Yellow Dog Blues; Bill Bailey, Won’t You Please Come Home; San; The Frog Song; Tiger Rag; After You’ve Gone; Maple Leaf Rag.