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Rafa Postel

Cycles 1

By Isaac Schwartz

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Shoten Zenjin (Morning Arrives for Aya); Aelorean; Cycles Brilliant; Waltz in Progress; Be; Libre; Hold and Keep This Flower (prelude); Hold and Keep This Flower; Miles to Go; Miles to Go (reprise); Waters; Bonus: Jerusalem (string quartet, version 1).

Negative Press Project + Friction Quartet: Cycles 1

by Jack Bowers
February 4, 2026

Cycles 1, the fifth recording by the San Francisco Bay-area Negative Press Project, is chamber jazz of the highest order, neatly canvassing a dozen creative and colorful themes by the group's co-leaders, pianist Ruthie Dineen (nine) and bassist Andrew Lion (three). The octet is ably supported on every number by the Friction Quartet, whose elegant strings ...

The Victorious Sessions

By Negative Press Project

Label: Ridgeway Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Victorious; Chant; Squares; Table for Three; Hexagons; Birds of Agamon Hula; Honey.

Birds of Agamon Hula

December 24, 2023

Album: The Victorious Sessions
By Negative Press Project
Label: Ridgeway Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 5:58

Marcus Shelby: Transitions

by C. Michael Bailey
July 12, 2019

Considering ambition and musical vision, bassist/bandleader Marcus Shelby has a single peer: Wynton Marsalis. Both men have a healthy reverence for the past and big imaginations for large-scale works. Shelby is struck by history, much of which he incorporates into this larger works like Soul of the Movement: Meditations on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011) ...

Marcus Shelby Orchestra: Transitions

by Jack Bowers
June 8, 2019

Although it is not alluded to anywhere, the centerpiece of San Francisco-based composer / bassist Marcus Shelby's latest big-band album, Transitions, is the evocative four-movement suite “Black Ball: The Negro Leagues and the Blues," which pays tribute to the all-black enterprises whose shining stars were barred from displaying their talents in the major baseball leagues until ...