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Nathan fell in love with jazz at 13, when he first heard Miles Davis play "So What". When he heard Lionel Hampton play "Take the 'A' Train" he knew the vibraphone was for him. His major influences are Milt Jackson, Gary Burton, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon and Charlie Parker. He has performed with the Florida All-State Band and Orchestra, the Florida Wind Symphony the Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps and the UCF Orlando All-Star High School Jazztet. He has won the Savarick Music Competition and 2010 Amelia Island Jazz Festival and Jazz Arts Music Society of Palm Beach Scholarships. Nathan has been a featured performer at the Amelia Island Jazz Festival and the Fort Pierce Jazz and Blues Society Brown Bad Lunch Series

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Javier Nero Jazz Orchestra: Alkebulan

Read "Alkebulan" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 11, 2026

On Alkebulan, the second recording by his Washington, DC-area Jazz Orchestra, composer, arranger and trombonist Javier Nero pays loving tribute to his African heritage, as he did on the orchestra's earlier album for Outside In Music, emet (The Black Land). As before, Nero uses his considerable skills as a writer and orchestrator to share and amplify ...

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