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Notable Releases from Christian Dillingham and Others

by Jerome Wilson
Here is a look at some notable albums released in the latter half of 2023. Ilya Dynov Bridges Self-Produced 2023 Drummer Ilya Dynov leads a small group session of straight-ahead jazz played with an edge and swinging deftness. The music runs the gamut from the rolling urgency ...
Manuel Valera Quintet: Vessel

by Chris May
Cuban born and raised, pianist and composer Manuel Valera moved to the US in 1994, attending high school in Florida before moving to New York City in 2000 to study at the New School. His classmates included Robert Glasper, Mike Moreno, Michael Rodriguez, Marcus Strickland and E.J. Strickland. Fast company. Valera's career as ...
Wayne Escoffery: Like Minds

by Dave Linn
Wayne Escoffery was born in London and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He began playing the saxophone at the age of 11, later studying at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In the late 1990s, Escoffery started gaining recognition on the jazz scene with ...
Wayne Escoffery: Still Forging Ahead

by R.J. DeLuke
Saxophonist Wayne Escoffery has a long, ongoing association with the Mingus Big Band organization, including a Grammy for Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard (Jazz Workshop, Inc., Sue Mingus Music, 2010). His career also includes a special relationship with trumpeter Tom Harrell, with whom he has played for many years. All that is enough to ...
Scott Flanigan: Walking On Clouds

by Ian Patterson
The challenge for any jazz musician is to find a personal voice. Acquiring the language of jazz through countless hours of listening to recordings, through practicing and gigging is not the issue. It is doing so without being shackled to another's style. When Charlie Parker was in his pomp, few saxophonists of the time ...
My Truth feat. Gregory Porter

Album: Like Minds
By Wayne Escoffery
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 07:55
Jimmy Greene: Gifts and Givers

by C. Andrew Hovan
The two-tenor battle is not a new idea, with iconic pairings from the jazz pantheon running the gamut from Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray to Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin. In more recent times, Eric Alexander and Grant Stewart have fueled the fire with their own incendiary adventures as heard on the current albums Wailin' ...
Criss Cross Records: The Healing Power Of Authenticity

by Chris May
When the founder of the Netherlands-based Criss Cross Jazz label, Gerry Teekens, passed away in 2019, there was an odds-on chance that Criss Cross would leave town with him. That is often the fate, in such circumstances, of organisations led by a singular visionary and defined by their personal aesthetic. The loss of the label would ...
Standards From Film

By Mike Moreno
Label: Criss Cross
Released: 2022
Track listing: Beautiful Love; You Stepped Out Of A Dream; There Will Never Be Another You; Stella By Starliight; Laura; I Fall In Love Too Easily; On Green Dolphin Street; My Foolish Heart; Invitation; Days Of Wine And Roses.
Weathered Crown

By Graham Doby
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: LONELY WOMAN, feat. Mike Moreno (Ornette Coleman) : 10:36
MY LOVE DWELT IN A NORTHERN LAND (Edward Elgar) : 6:43
DO ME A FAVOR, feat. Mike Moreno (John Lander) : 7:05
POUGHKEEPSIE NIGHT i (Graham Doby/John Lander/Sam Smith) : 4:04
POUGHKEEPSIE NIGHT ii (Graham Doby/John Lander/Sam Smith) : 6:36
POUGHKEEPSIE NIGHT iii (Graham Doby/John Lander/Sam Smith). 7:17
HOT GARBAGE (Graham Doby/Diego Cebollero/Dylan Kaminkow/John Lander/lyrics by
Zaí XP) : 9:15