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T. Lavitz: No Time Flat

by Mike Jacobs
June 17, 2026

Though technically the name of the group and the album, School of the Arts (Magnatude, 2007) is a T. Lavitz's project, by any other name. It stands unique in the late keyboardist's catalog for it's enlisting of Chick Corea Elektric Band cohorts Dave Weckl, Frank Gambale and John Patitucci, in combination with Lavitz's Dixie Dregs bandmates, ...

Marc Johnson's Right Brain Patrol: Samurai Hee Haw

by Mike Jacobs
June 12, 2026

Gary Husband: Celestial Terrestrial Commuters

by Mike Jacobs
June 7, 2026

Band Of Other Brothers: Bar Fight

by Mike Jacobs
June 6, 2026

Though they're known as  Band of Other Brothers, there's really no other name than “supergroup" for a band that consists of players of such gravity as Jeff Babko, Jeff Coffin, Nir Felder, Will Lee and Keith Carlock. And, as “Bar Fight," the lead track of their debut album City of Cranes (Ear Up Records, 2016) confirms, ...

Ben Wendel With Gilad Hekselman: October

by Mike Jacobs
February 4, 2026

Ben Wendel's 2015 The Seasons was initially a video-only project featuring the saxophonist in a different duet for each month of the year. The project was so successful, it later spawned a tour and a studio album [The Seasons (Motéma Music, 2018)] that featured  Aaron Parks, Gilad Hekselman, Matt Brewer and Eric Harland. “October," with guitarist Hekselman, was ...

Mark Lettieri: Expanding Boundaries

by Mike Jacobs
February 2, 2026

In the years since Mark Lettieri first sat down with All About Jazz, much has changed--and, in a sense, much has not. At the time of that (2020 interview), Lettieri had a budding solo career, but was still primarily known as being part of Snarky Puppy's (SP) formidable six-string triumvirate (along with fellow guitarists Bob Lanzetti ...

Jon Herington: Kernel Of Truth

by Mike Jacobs
February 2, 2026

From Jon Herington's Pulse and Cadence (ESC, 2008)--[which is itself a re-release of Herington's Japan-only solo debut, The Complete Rhyming Dictionary (Glass House, 1993)]--"Kernel of Truth" features the future Steely Dan touring guitarist with stalwarts Peter Erskine, Jim Beard, Victor Bailey and Arto Tuncboyaciyan in what may be one of the most interlocking arrangements ...

Banned From Utopia: Tink Walks Amok / Thirteen

by Mike Jacobs
November 2, 2025

The late Frank Zappa was known for, among many other things, having some virtuosic touring bands. Even the bandleader's demise wasn't enough to break the bond of many members of his various touring ensembles, who formed “The Band From Utopia" in 1994, just after the maestro's passing. Later re-monickered “Banned From Utopia," the group recorded So ...

Michael Manring: The Adamski Photographs

by Mike Jacobs
November 1, 2025

In many ways, Michael Manring's album The Book of Flame (Alchemy, 1998) proved to be a stylistic bridge between his Thonk (High Street, 1994)-era output and his subsequent canon (which ended up almost exclusively solo bass--oriented). But not only was the album populated with about half and half multi-instrument pieces to solo pieces, it also contained ...