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Gooey Butter Cake

January 10, 2024

Album: Evergreen
By Jun Iida
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 04:06

Article: Liner Notes

Francesco Crosara: Circular Motion

by David Adler
January 6, 2024

"I refuse to be labeled a 'straight-ahead' player or a 'fusion' player," says Italian-born, Seattle-based pianist Francesco Crosara. It's a sentiment widely shared by jazz musicians, though they follow many different roads to get to that place. Crosara, for his part, plays both acoustic piano and Yamaha MODX-8 synthesizer on this absorbing, varied program of original ...

Article: Liner Notes

Jun Iida: Evergreen

by Gary Fukushima
January 5, 2024

They are everywhere, dotting the undulating terrain of the great Pacific Northwest, from the winding, twisting shorelines of Puget Sound to the mountains that rise in the distance in every direction: the Olympics to the west, the Cascades to the east, Mt. Baker to the north and the majestic Rainier to the south. The trees are ...

Article: Album Review

Jun Iida: Evergreen

Read "Evergreen" reviewed by Nicholas F. Mondello

by Nicholas F. Mondello
January 4, 2024

Evergreen from trumpeter/flugelhornist Jun Iida is a textural panorama of multi-cultural jazz flavors, offering original and known fare. Each of the ten tracks is a portrait, and they display fine solo and ensemble playing. To describe Evergreen in one word is to call it “intriguing." “Gooey Butter Cake," one of six originals from Iida, ...

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Interleaved

By Andrew Moorhead

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: SeriesOSeriesOSeries; World Wind; A Key in a Pool; Entropy: No Going Back; Five Tom; Sun Summon; Someday My Prince Will Come; The Days of Wine and Roses; Fractured Hymn; Crystal Wind; Hug.

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Destiny Calling

By Charlie Apicella

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: As the Sun Rises; Titan vs. Sphinx; Juma's Song / Maliki Melasha; We're All Here in Spirit; It's Alright to Run; I Heard in Passing; If You Know Where to Look; Where Do You Find These People?; Sparks.

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Six-String Standards

By Mason Razavi

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Stompin' at the Savoy; You Stepped Out of a Dream; Body and Soul; Like Someone in Love; But Beautiful; Days of Wine and Roses; I Thought About You; Darn That Dream; I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry; They Can't Take That Away from Me.

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Fishin' Again: A Tribute to Clyde Stubblefield & Dr. Lonnie Smith

By Dan Trudell

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Fishin' Again; Chocolate Martini; Hip Hop Bach; Horse; Holler Back; Glow Worm; Scream.

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Shaw's Groove

By Jason Keiser

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Organ Grinder; Zoltan; The Moontrane; Katerina Ballerina; Blues for Woody; Obsequious; Jean Marie; Shaw's Groove.

Album

Evergreen

By Jun Iida

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Gooey Butter Cake; Akatombo; Evergreen; Shiki no Uta; Bellarosa; Forgotten Memories; Love Theme from Spartacus; My Anguish in Solidarity; Song for Luke; Holding On to Autumn.