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Randy Brecker

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Jazz trumpeter and composer Randy Brecker has helped shape the sound of jazz, R&B and rock for more than four decades. His trumpet and flugelhorn performances have graced hundreds of albums by a wide range of artists from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and Parliament/Funkadelic to Frank Sinatra, Steely Dan, Jaco Pastorius and Frank Zappa.

Born in 1945 in Philadelphia to a musical family, Randy’s musical talent was nurtured from an early age. He attended Indiana University from 1963-66 studying with Bill Adam, David Baker and Jerry Coker and later moved to New York where he landed gigs with such prominent bands as Clark Terry’s Big Bad Band, the Duke Pearson Big Band and the Thad Jones Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra.

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Michael Dease: MSU Jazz Trombones: Spartan Strong

Read "MSU Jazz Trombones: Spartan Strong" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Michael Dease, widely admired as one of the world's foremost jazz trombonists but rather less-known as an educator, dons his professorial garb on Spartan Strong, supervising a splendid session by a special corps of undergrads (and students in his trombone studio) who together comprise the MSU (Michigan State University) Trombones, twenty-three members in all when one ...

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Usein Bekirov: Free Way Deluxe

Read "Free Way Deluxe" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Labels, reductive at best, prove especially slippery when applied to Lviv-based pianist-keyboardist Usein Bekirov. Ethno-jazz, ethno-fusion, jazz-funk--all these titles and more have followed his music around since his debut album, Taterrium (4Records, 2016). Born in Uzbekistan but raised in Crimea from the age of eight, Bekirov has drawn variously on his Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar roots, ...

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The Parts You Keep

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Misgivings; Steeplechase; Giant Steps; Dashan’s Flying Ubercar; That Old Feeling; Barolo Blue; Past is Prologue; The Parts You Keep; Winterreigen, Op. 13: V. Sphärenmusik.

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Quem Sabe [Feat. Ada Rovatti, Randy Brecker, Michel Freidenson]

Label: Jazz Station Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Quem Sabe [Feat. Ada Rovatti, Randy Brecker, Michel Freidenson]

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Building Characters

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Kismet; Zhong Fei, Fierce Warrior; If on a Winter’s Night O Traveler…; Colossus of Rhodes; Alice in Wonderland; Straw Hot; Soph, Aeon of Wisdom; Stardust.

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Day Trip

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Morning Light (feat. Eric Marienthal); On The Road (feat. Marcus Miller & Sheila E.); Let’s Drive; With You (feat. Isaiah Sharkey); U-Turn (feat. Branford Marsalis); By Your Side; In The Vines (feat. Kirk Whalum); The Winding Path (feat. Mike Stern); Sunset Kiss; A Hundred Miles (feat. Randy Brecker & Eric Marienthal); Home Again.

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Weekend At Smalls

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Winney's Garden; Shadow; There's A Mingus A Monk Us; Presage; Straight No Chaser; Moontide; Cecilia.

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Glimpse

Label: SBE Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Caught a Glimpse of Your Soul; Farewell to Comfort; Dave Don't Mind the Rain; Vivid Technicolor Love; If I Only Had a Brain; Serendipity; Warrior, Drop Your Sword; Hold ON; Superhero; Here You Are; Strange and Beautiful

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The Journey

Label: Dodicilune Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Shuffle Tune; Bassic Instinct; Song for Caterina; Bop Street; Just in Case: For My Parents; Night Roads; South; Che M’importa Del Mondo; Frully; Alice; Lullaby of the Leaves; Prelude.


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