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Ben Kono Group: Voyages

Read "Voyages" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
February 23, 2025

This album is saxophonist Ben Kono's tribute to his family's history, dating back to his grandfather's migration from Japan to the United States in 1911, performed by a combination of small jazz group and string quartet, The first half of the work concerns with his family's transition into life in the United States, and the second ...

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Voyages

By Ben Kono

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Yobiyose (The Calling); Bata-Kusai!!; Belong; Across the Pond; Issei; Nisei; Sansei; Yonsei.

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Exuberance

By Christopher Zuar

Label: Tonal Conversations
Released: 2024
Track listing: In Winter Blooms; Moments in Between; Communion; Simple Machines; Before Dawn; Certainty; Exuberance.

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As I Sing

By Radha Thomas

Label: SubContinental Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Summertime; Autumn Leaves; I Fall In Love Easily; It Could Happen To You; I remember Clifford; Daahoud; Jitterburg Waltz; Just Friends; Social Call; Moon Ray.

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Bianca Reimagined: Music for Paws and Persistence

By Dan Pugach

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Tolerance; Bianca; Bella the Bear; Masa; Schleppin’; Travel; Dreams; Discourse This!

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Christopher Zuar Orchestra: Exuberance

Read "Exuberance" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 23, 2024

Composer/arranger Christopher Zuar's second album, Exuberance, recounts in musical terms a twisting yet picturesque journey that began seven years earlier, in 2017, when Zuar first met his now-wife, the animator Anne Beal, at MacDowell, the famed artists' residency in New Hampshire. While the relationship “blooms" in winter, there are “moments between" and other inescapable detours until ...

Article: Catching Up With

Ben Kono Turned Family History into Chamber Jazz

by Lawrence Peryer
November 18, 2024

Ben Kono discovered his family's American origin story in the pages of his grandfather's memoirs. Thirteen-year-old Juhei Caleb Kono sailed alone from Japan in 1911, worked Pacific Northwest farms, and attended fourth grade as a young adult to build a new life. These translated accounts sparked Kono's new album Voyages (Self Produced), an ambitious blend of ...

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In Winter Blooms

August 10, 2024

Album: Exuberance
By Christopher Zuar
Label: Tonal Conversations
Released: 2024
Duration: 8:15

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Dan Pugach Big Band: Bianca

by Jack Bowers
April 5, 2024

Dan Pugach is an Israeli-born, New York-based drummer who doubles (quite well) as composer and arranger on Bianca, his second recording for Outside In Music. Pugach anchors a splendid big band comprised of some of the New York area's finest musicians on an album whose subtitle is “Music for Paws and Persistence." The ...

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Dan Pugach Big Band at The Jazz Loft

by Dan Bilawsky
March 27, 2024

On March 22, 2024, two weeks to the day after Dan Pugach released his first big band record, the celebrated drummer-composer brought his large ensemble to The Jazz Loft in Stony Brook for an album release event that was a resounding success by any measure. That 90-seat venue--a performance space, museum and educational hub with a ...