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Don Was, Mike Clark, Grant Stewart, Sacha Boutros and more

by Benjamin Boddie
October 15, 2025

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, ...

Article: Album Review

Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet: Turn It Up!

Read "Turn It Up!" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 12, 2025

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 ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Baltimore Jazz Collective, Shawn Purcell, James Danderfer, Mike LeDonne and more

by Benjamin Boddie
October 1, 2025

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 ...

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Pharoah's Dance

August 15, 2025

Album: Split Decision
By Vincent Herring
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 08:25

Article: Album Review

Eric Alexander: Chicago To New York

Read "Chicago To New York" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
May 1, 2025

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 ...

Article: Album Review

Eric Alexander: Chicago To New York

Read "Chicago To New York" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
April 29, 2025

Tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander's release, Chicago To New York, is a masterclass in modern hard bop that pays homage to the vibrant musical exchange between two of jazz's most storied cities. This is not just a geographical nod but a conversation across time and space, framed by a quartet whose cohesion and shared sensibilities transcend geographical ...

Article: Album Review

The Heavy Hitters: That's What's Up!

Read "That's What's Up!" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
January 21, 2025

Mike LeDonne and Eric Alexander head up a band called Heavy Hitters, which features a stellar cast of New York's jazz elite, including trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, alto saxophonist Vincent Herring, bassist Alexander Claffy and drummer Kenny Washington. They have released That's What's Up!, a live recording from Frankie's Jazz Club in Vancouver, British Columbia in December ...

Article: Album Review

Heavy Hitters: That's What's Up!

Read "That's What's Up!" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 3, 2025

Heavy Hitters is a superb New York-based sextet co-led by pianist Mike LeDonne and tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander. Individually and as a team, the Hitters keep their eyes squarely on the ball, swing for the fences and, more often than not, slam the spheroid solidly out of the park. And on this typically upbeat session they ...

Album

That's What's Up!

By The Heavy Hitters

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: JB; That’s What’s Up; Shadows; Groundation; It’s Magic; Blues for All; Continuum; My One and Only Love; Lord Walton; You’ll Never Know What You Mean to Me.

Album

Wonderful!

By Mike LeDonne

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Let Us Go; Lonnie's Lament; Twinkies Organ Prelude/Wonderful; Put It Back; Bridge Over Troubled Water; Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing; Make Someone Happy; Genesis.