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Orion Turre

Planet Bluu

By T.K. Blue

Label: Jaja Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Hue of Blue; Valley of the Bluu Rose; Planet Bluu; Crystal Lake Bluu; Sky Bluu Part 1; Sky Bluu Part 2; When It's Time to Say Goodbye; Chessman's Delight Turquoise Bluu; Royal Bluu; The Bluu Sea of Our Tomorrows.

Steve Turre: Generations

by Dave Linn
April 25, 2023

Generations is a wonderful exploration of the bop and post-bop era. Steve Turre both looks back to his roots while encouraging the next generation of musicians to find their voice. It's a position he's eminently qualified for, considering the artists he has played with and his tenure as a long-time jazz educator. Trombone players ...

Generations

By Steve Turre

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Planting the Ceed; Dinner with Duke; Blue Smoke; Smoke Gets in Your Eyes; Don D.; Pharoah's Dance; Flower Power; Good People; Sweet Dreams; Resistance.

Akua Dixon: Akua Dixon

by Hrayr Attarian
February 22, 2015

Virtuoso cellist Akua Dixon is one of the few exclusive practitioners of the instrument in jazz. Whether in a supportive role or leading her Quartette Indigo she deftly fuses intimate chamber decorum and spontaneous ingenuity for an elegant and vibrant style that is hard to pigeonhole. She spices her eponymous release with Latin passion and an ...

Akua Dixon: Akua Dixon

by Dan Bilawsky
February 7, 2015

Cellist Akua Dixon has been at it for decades: She's performed with jazz royalty like Duke Ellington, penned arrangements for non-jazz giants like Lauryn Hill and Aretha Franklin, and recorded with everybody from trumpet titan Dizzy Gillespie to trombonist Steve Turre to David Byrne, the beyond-category former frontman of the Talking Heads. Unfortunately, all of that ...