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Mike LeDonne
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Pianist Mike LeDonne started playing piano at the age of 5 and was raised in his parent’s music store. By the age of 10 his father, a jazz guitarist, began booking him on gigs. He is now an internationally renowned pianist and organist with the unique experience of having played with a wide spectrum of jazz masters from Benny Goodman to Milt Jackson and Sonny Rollins. He has won praise not only from critics but from master musicians: Oscar Peterson picked him as one of his favorite pianists of today. At age 21, Mike graduated from New England Conservatory in 1979 and moved to New York City with the Widespread Jazz Orchestra
Chicago To New York
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Afro Blue; Wise One; This Is Always; Only The Lonley; Hittin' The Jug; The Lamp Is
Low; Agel Eyes.
Split Decision
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Pharoah's Dance;
Strollin';
A Peck a Sec;
My Romance;
Soft Impressions;
Mo's Theme.
Turn It Up!
By Mike LeDonne
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Disc 1 (Turn ItUp!)—Slow Freight; Mary Lou’s Blues; Love Don’t Love Nobody; Who Can I Turn
To; I Love Music; This Will Be; Blues for Edith. Disc 2 (You’ll See!)—After the Love Has Gone; 11
Years; Lamont; You’ll See; Delilah; Cherokee; Trouble (#2).
Turn It Up!: Live at the Sidedoor
By Mike LeDonne
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: CD1: Slow Freight; Mary Lou's Blues; Love Don't Love Nobody; Who Can I Turn
To; I Love Music; This Will Be; Blues For Edith.
CD 2: After The Love Has Gone; 11 Years; Lament; You'll See; Delilah; Cherokee;
Trouble (#2).
Don Was, Mike Clark, Grant Stewart, Sacha Boutros and more
by Benjamin Boddie
Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Don Was, Mike Clark, Grant Stewart, Sacha Boutros, Stevie Holland, Margherita Fava, Tom Cohen, Al Muirhead, Rick Keller, James Danderfer, Ryan Keberle, Markus Rutz, Charlie Porter, Michael Mayo, Rin Seo, Snorre Kirk, Michael Dease, Jen Allen, Roger Glenn, Eric Byrd, Nick Finzer, JD Allen, Johnathan Blake, Mike LeDonne, Kate Wyatt, ...
Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet: Turn It Up!
by Jack Bowers
Turn It Up!, the latest recording by organist Mike LeDonne's superb and long-lived Groover Quartet, is actually a two- CD set that reprises concert sessions recorded twenty years apart--the first, You'll See! (Cellar Records, 2004) in Vancouver's now- defunct Cellar Jazz Club, the second,Turn It Up!, in 2024 at Ken Kitchings' The Side Door in Old ...
Baltimore Jazz Collective, Shawn Purcell, James Danderfer, Mike LeDonne and more
by Benjamin Boddie
Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Baltimore Jazz Collective, Milan Verbist, Shawn Purcell, Juliet Ewing, Harold Lopez-Nussa, James Danderfer, Steve Rosenbloom, Mark Winkler, Gabriel Alegria, David Kikoski, Mike LeDonne, Enrique Haneine, Heather McKay, Kelly Green, Brad Mehldau, Brandon Suarez, Roger Glenn, Jen Allen, Jim Witzel, Jimmy Greene, Eric Alexander, Carmen Bradford, Josh Lawrence, Michael Mayo, George ...
Pharoah's Dance
Album: Split Decision
By Vincent Herring
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 08:25
Eric Alexander: Chicago To New York
by Jack Bowers
Eric Alexander, widely praised for years as one of the jazz world's foremost tenor saxophonists, greets listeners with an unforeseen yet tantalizing curve ball on his latest album, Chicago to New York, employing his luminous soprano sax to enhance the first two numbers, John Coltrane's “Afro Blue" and “Wise One," before unleashing his trustworthy and perceptive ...
