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Sea Spell

By Jeff Rupert

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most; Blue Steel; Mambo Inn; Sea Spell; Look Who’s Calling; Polka Dots and Moonbeams; A Breeze Through the Keys; Orca- Stration; Wednesday’s News.

Jeff Rupert Quartet: Sea Spell

by Jack Bowers
July 8, 2026

John Coltrane, commenting on the remarkably silken tones generated by fellow tenor saxophonist Stan Getz, is said to have remarked, “We'd all sound that way if we could." Although Florida-based tenor Jeff Rupert is no Getz clone, the sound he produces on his latest album, Sea Spell, comes so close to mirroring Getz that the impression ...

The Flying Horse Big Band: Unbridled

by Jack Bowers
December 20, 2025

On Unbridled, its ninth album to date, central Florida's admirable Flying Horse Big Band “meets veteran tenor saxophonist George Garzone" on four of seven numbers, starting with John Coltrane's exemplary jazz standard, “Giant Steps," arranged by the band's music director, Jeff Rupert. Garzone is showcased again on Michael Philip Mossman's handsome arrangement of Rupert's ...

Blues and Cubes

By Dan Miller

Label: Flying Horse Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Blue Lamp; Dora Maar; Les Demoiselles d’Avignon; Blue Steel; Segment; View of Heaven; Promenade aux Champs-Elysees; Promenade in Blue; Picasso’s Blue Lobster; The Iberian.

The Jazz Professors: Blues and Cubes

by Jack Bowers
July 31, 2022

Yes, the Florida-based Jazz Professors, as befits the name, are smart—but don't let that throw you. They also swing in the best jazz tradition, even though their fourth album, Blues and Cubes, was inspired by the art of Pablo Picasso. Unlike Picasso's works, however, there is scant abstraction here; the Professors embody far more bop than ...

The Ripple

By Jeff Rupert

Label: Rupe Media
Released: 2020
Track listing: Bahia; Go-Go; Stardust; Without a Song; The Shadow of Your Smile; Detour Ahead; The Red Door; Red Top; Hoboken: Beauty Becomes Her; Lester Left Town; Alone Together.

Jeff Rupert/George Garzone: The Ripple

by Jim Worsley
April 28, 2020

The Ripple refers to the infectious, warm, intimate, yet big sound developed by the great Lester Young, starting in the late 1930s. While Young pioneered improvisational creativity, Stan Getz later took the baton (well, it was actually a saxophone) and further expanded his idol's stylish approach with new and creatively open-ended visions. Young and Getz collectively ...

George Garzone: Sax In The City

by Jim Worsley
April 9, 2020

George Garzone is not the mayor of the city of Boston. If he was appointed to a position it would more likely be king. He is, at the very least, the toast of the town. This isn't news. King George has reigned with a firm grasp of his mighty tenor saxophone for close to half a ...

Two Twin-Tenor Duos

by Jerome Wilson
March 23, 2020

The idea of two tenor saxophonists playing together has a long, storied history in jazz through pairings like Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray, Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, and Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. Such duos have become harder to find in recent years but here are two newer examples. Jeff Rupert / ...