Results for "Origin Records"

Dave Slonaker Big Band: Shifty Paradigms

by Jack Bowers
February 16, 2026

While Los Angeles-based composer and arranger Dave Slonaker's paradigms may be shifty, his all-star big band is about as forthright as one could wish. On Shifty Paradigms, his third recording fronting the band, Slonaker guides his peerless eighteen-member ensemble through its paces on a dynamic and always-swinging program that encompasses seven of his stellar original compositions ...

Shagit

February 12, 2026

Album: Embrace
By Mattias Svensson
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 07:55

Some Skunk Funk

February 9, 2026

Album: MSU Jazz Trombones: Spartan Strong
By Michael Dease
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 06:11

Paul Marinaro: Mood Ellington

by Pierre Giroux
February 8, 2026

Paul Marinaro's Mood Ellington is an ambitious, carefully crafted double CD that regards Duke Ellington's vocal repertoire not as a fixed monument but as a living collection of work capable of endless renewal. Instead of relying on a single arranging perspective, Marinaro commissioned thirteen renowned composers, allowing Ellington's songs to be explored through multiple aesthetic lenses ...

Maurice

February 8, 2026

Album: The Rhythm
By Eddie Allen
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 06:12

Eddie Allen: The Rhythm

by Jack Bowers
January 25, 2026

Brooklyn-based trumpeter Eddie Allen and his well-groomed sextet, PUSH, truly are rhythm-focused, as they prove time and again on Allen's ninth recording as leader of his own group. Whatever the tone or tempo, PUSH swings its merry way through a dozen bright and upbeat tunes, most written and all arranged by Allen, wherein strong and dazzling ...

Michael Dease: MSU Jazz Trombones: Spartan Strong

by Jack Bowers
January 16, 2026

Michael Dease, widely admired as one of the world's foremost jazz trombonists but rather less-known as an educator, dons his professorial garb on Spartan Strong, supervising a splendid session by a special corps of undergrads (and students in his trombone studio) who together comprise the MSU (Michigan State University) Jazz Trombones, twenty-three members in all when ...

Paul Ricci

Born: March 11, 1958

Born and raised in New York and a graduate of New England Conservatory, Ricci has studied and performed and various styles of global music that he integrates with his jazz foundation leading to a brilliant career as a guitarist, arranger and producer in the USA and Brasil.

From the 1980’s on, he has performed at some of the most prestigious jazz clubs in NYC sharing the stage or studio with many great names on the scene such as Michael Wolff,  Dennis Irwin, Sonny Fortune, David Kikoski, Harold Vick, Victor Jones, Santi DeBriano, Mino Cinelu, Mike Clark, Bakithi Kumalo, Larry Willis and so many others in clubs such as Mezzrow’s, Fat Tuesday’s, Visiones, Birdland, Zinc Bar, Zanzibar, NuBlu, the Iridium and the Blue Note.

Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner

By Peter Erskine

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: March of the Merry Men; Sterbelied (from Lieder des Abschieds, Op. 14); Old Spanish Song; The Boys Go to Play; Concerto Miniature (theme from Violin Concerto, 2nd mvt.); Romance (Violin Concerto, 2nd mvt.); Tara’s Theme; Belle Watling; Johnny Belinda; String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 26 (Larghetto); A Summer Place; Ghost Coda (theme from Violin Concerto, 2nd mvt.).

The Vibe

By Nanami Haruta

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Girlie's World; The Vibe; Algonquin; Toshi; Sister Rosa; Easy Money; Heartstrings; How It Goes; Jamerson's Lullaby; Woodpecker; Unchained Melody.