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Rale Micic is one of the most successful and critically acclaimed jazz musicians to emerge from Serbia. Audiences throughout the world have been captivated by Micic’s mesmerizing music, exploring interaction between his Serbian musical roots and his extensive knowledge of jazz. With three albums‘released on CTA Records, Rale Micic created cult-like following among music fans with his mix of jazz and haunting melodies from the Balkans. On his second release entitled Serbia, Micic establishes himself as one of the most inventive voices on the music scene today, featuring renowned Grammy-nominated trumpet player Tom Harrell, and was called “mellow, tight and tasteful” by Downbeat

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Alma Mićić's Balkan Soul in the Brave New World

by C. Michael Bailey
April 8, 2026

After having released four recordings between 2004 and 2017, the Serbian-American vocalist Alma Mićić (pronounced “Mee-cheech") took the COVID-19 pandemic off in the studio, returning in 2024 contributing vocals for “Evergreen" on tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander's release Timing Is Everything (Cellar Live/La Reserve Records). Mićić's collaboration with Alexander jumpstarted the singer's return to the studio, which ...

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Lilac Wine - Tribute to Helen Merrill

By Alma Micic

Label: Venus Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To; Lilac Wine; All of Me; Comes Love; I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do; Wild Is the Wind; Lover Man; Night And Day; 'S Wonderful; Masquerade Is Over

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You're My Thrill

By Alma Micic

Label: Venus Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Bye Bye Blackbird; I’ll Be Seeing You; In a Sentimental Mood; Mad About You; Moja Mala Nema Mane; My One and Only Love; The Shadow of Your Smile; You're My Thrill; Zute Dunje.

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Timing Is Everything

By Eric Alexander

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: After The Rain; But Beautiful; Serenade To A Cuckoo; Big G's Monk; Sasquatch; Misty; Timing Is Everything; Evergreen; Someone.

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Eric Alexander: Timing Is Everything

Read "Timing Is Everything" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
June 19, 2024

Eric Alexander's album Timing Is Everything is an acknowledgment of his mastery of the tenor saxophone, highlighting a combination of power, precision, and profound musicality. Accompanied by pianist Rick Germanson, bassist Alexander Claffy and drummer Jason Tiemann along with a handful of special guests, Alexander leads this nine-track outing with a confidence and ease that can ...

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The Heavy Hitters

By Eric Alexander

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2023
Track listing: Hub; New Day; Silverdust; Una Dia es un Dia; Big Richard; Chainsaw; This Is Something New; Cedar Land; Bluesit.

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Heavy Hitters

By Mike LeDonne

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2023
Track listing: Hub; New Day; Silverdust; Un Dia es un Dia; Big Richard; Chainsaw; This is Something New; Cedar Land; Bluesit.

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Mike LeDonne: The Heavy Hitters

Read "The Heavy Hitters" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
February 18, 2023

Homing in on the electric, ancestral vibe of Rudy Van Gelder's house of musical myth and magic in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, the Heavy Hitters, spearheaded by journeyman pianist Mike LeDonne and well-traveled saxophonist, Eric Alexander, approach this eponymous debut with a ballsy, brassy, big sounding blueprint which carries through the entire recording. In ...

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Mike LeDonne: The Heavy Hitters

Read "The Heavy Hitters" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
February 16, 2023

There was a period back in the middle years of the 20th Century and beyond when All-Star Groups were quite common, including the Buck Clayton All-Stars, Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All-Stars, and Gene Harris and the Phillip Morris Superband among several other similar aggregations. In today's musical environment, this kind of coming together of high profile musicians ...