Results for "Posi-tone Swingtet"

Artemis, Posi-Tone Swingtet, Caili O'Doherty, Max Leake and more

by Benjamin Boddie
March 14, 2025

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Artemis, Posi-Tone Swingtet, The Reddish Fetish, Caili O'Doherty, Max Leake, Harry Allen Trio, Bibber Badder Bones, Judy Wexler, Liz Cole, Greg Abate, Bill Moio, Fernando Ferrarone, Yellowjackets, Nanami Haruta, Elaine Dame, Nick Hempton & Cory Weeds, Rodney Whitaker, Jim Snidero, Jenna McLean, Joe Syria, Kasan Belgrave, WDR Big Band, MTB, ...

Posi-Tone Swingtet: In Jazz We Trust

by Joshua Weiner
March 14, 2025

The Posi-Tone Records label, founded and run by producer Marc Free and engineer Nick O'Toole, celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2025. Given the many upheavals in the music business since 1995--the rise of file sharing, the introduction of iTunes, iPod, and iPhone, the decline of the compact disc concomitant with the rise of streaming services, the ...

Posi-Tone Swingtet: In Jazz We Trust

by Dan Bilawsky
March 4, 2025

In the mid-'90s, when Posi-Tone released its first album, the recording industry landscape was completely different than it is today. Small independent labels were not the norm, every artist did not have their own imprint and Napster had yet to arrive to kick off the access revolution. It was, quite simply, a different world--one where label ...

Posi-Tone Swingtet

Active since: 2020

What works for the Posi-Tone imprint? The answer to that question can be boiled down to a single sentence, where the truth is plain to see and hear: It’s a musical model based on inclusivity where collective consciousness is at the core of it all. Once again, this is smartly demonstrated on the label’s latest offering, Posi-Tone Swingtet’s “In Jazz We Trust”.

As with many projects that have come down the pike from Posi-Tone, “In Jazz We Trust” is both an extension on established parameters and a departure from previous positions. It’s an outing elevated by a one-for-all mentality, but one that stands on its own in terms of expression and personality.

One For 25

By Posi-Tone Swingtet

Label: Posi-Tone Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: You Dig; Eudaimonia; Avalanche Suspended; For Morgan; Dry Clean Only; Projection; Schlep City; Big Pictures; Extraction; Major Waltz; Simón; Where With All.

50th Anniversary Blue Notes for June

by Marc Cohn
June 12, 2020

Blue Note 50th anniversaries from June 1970, just two though: Horace Silver (That Healin' Feelin') and Lou Donaldson (Pretty Things). There was also a Reuben Wilson session, but it was never released, and only the 'vault gods' know if it was any good. But you know there's more (don't you?). 21st century music from the Posi-Tone ...

Six Great New Albums

by Bob Osborne
May 21, 2020

All new music this week with six great new releases. Arturo O'Farrill's Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra. Their latest recording and the first album in his famed recording catalog to exclusively include all originally written compositions. Weaving together empowering messages for the times, the album portrays the pioneering pianist as outspoken as ever on the ...