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Pianist Oscar Perez, a New York City native, has shared the stage with jazz legends Bunky Green, George Russell, Curtis Fuller, and George Garzone. He received his formal education at New England Conservatory and Aaron Copland School of Music under the guidance of Danilo Perez and Sir Roland Hanna, respectively. Since moving back to New York, he has spent recent years traveling and playing in the musical groups of trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, saxophonist Virginia Mayhew, vocalist Cathy Elliott and vibraphonist Christian Tamburr with whom he has a new recording. In addition to employment as a jazz pianist, he toured with vocalist Phoebe Snow performing in venues such as The Theatre at Madison Square Garden and Webster Hall

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Live at The Statuary

By Ted Chubb

Label: Circle 9
Released: 2026
Track listing: SBB Bounce; Uptick; Little Flower Girl; Out Of This World Expat; Refugee Hymn; 1919; Django; Empty Hearts.

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We Dream

By Lakecia Benjamin

Label: Artwork Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: First Light; Beyond the Dawn; My Only; Mi Gente; Ascension; DreamBreaker; We Dream; Flamekeeper; Hiromi Jam; Right Now; New World.

Song of the Day

Refugee Hymn

July 10, 2026

Album: Live at The Statuary
By Ted Chubb
Label: Circle 9
Released: 2026
Duration: 5:55

Article: Album Review

Ted Chubb: Live at The Statuary

Read "Live at The Statuary" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 8, 2026

Trumpeter, composer and educator Ted Chubb leads a blue-chip quintet on Live at The Statuary, recorded during four concert sessions in March 2025 at the historic Jersey City, New Jersey, site that Chubb co-owns with his wife, Rachel Ryll. This is wall-to-wall hard bop jazz wherein Chubb and his front-line partner, alto saxophonist Bruce Williams, tread ...

Article: Festivals Talking

Moers Festival Interviews: Lakecia Benjamin

by Martin Longley
May 22, 2026

The last day of the Moers Festival is also the Monday holiday of Whitsun, still marked in Germany, even if it's dormant in England, but still technically observed in the USA, although not granted a public day off work. As a climax of both the five-day festival and the (Pentecost) holiday, the NYC alto saxophonist Lakecia ...

Article: Rising Stars

Introducing Trombonist Dan Harkins

by Sanford Josephson
September 12, 2024

Trombonist Urbie Green, who died in 2018 at the age of 92, was part of Woody Herman's Thundering Herd in the 1950s and won DownBeat's International Critics' Award for “New Star" in 1954. While revered among his colleagues, Green is not exactly a household name among the jazz listening public. But 22-year-old trombonist Dan Harkins lists ...

Article: Live Review

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2024

by Mark Sullivan
July 11, 2024

Various Venues Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Montréal, Canada June 30 to July 4, 2024 This year's official announcement of the headliners of the 44th edition of the festival included André 3000, Norah Jones, Hiatus Kaiyote, Laufey, Robert Glasper, and Orville Peck. This diverse group is notable for departing from ...

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Immigration Nation

By Charlie Porter

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Immigration Nation; Contradictions Within; Divergent Paths; Flight; Second Chance; The Unexpected; The Privileged Few; A New Vernacular; Survival of the Fittest; A Deepening Sense; Belonging; Chant.

Article: Album Review

Charlie Porter: Immigration Nation

Read "Immigration Nation" reviewed by Paul Rauch

by Paul Rauch
December 4, 2019

Jazz has always carried with it a social narrative with historical ebbs and flows reliant on the polarizing issues of its time. With Immigrant Nation (OA2, 2019), Portland based trumpeter Charlie Porter embraces the forever narrative of American immigration, the historical force of humanity that has formed and enriched this country from its beginnings. The linear ...