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Rob Lockart

Robert Lockart received a BM in music theory with a performers certificate and MM from Eastman School in Jazz Studies, as well as attending the Banff School with Dave Holland, Kenny Wheeler, and David Liebman. As a performer he has played with the Woody Herman Orchestra, Tom Harrell Big Band, Doc Severinsen Big Band, Joe LaBarbera Quintet, Kurt Elling, in addition to single performances with Dave Liebman, Mel Lewis, Hank Jones, Clark Terry, and as a soloist with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. His teachers include Dave Liebman, Al Regni, Micheal Nascimben, Joe Allard, Ramon Ricker, and Mardele Marcellus. In Los Angeles Rob is active as a recording musician in the jazz community and TV and film

Shifty Paradigms

By Dave Slonaker

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Dash Cam; Bye Bye Blues; Comin’ Home; Blue Windows; Shifty Paradigms; 3rd and Four; Cathedrals; Roundabout.

Shifty Paradigms

February 19, 2026

Album: Shifty Paradigms
By Dave Slonaker
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 07:59

Dave Slonaker Big Band: Shifty Paradigms

by Jack Bowers
February 16, 2026

While Los Angeles-based composer and arranger Dave Slonaker's paradigms may be shifty, his all-star big band is about as forthright as one could wish. On Shifty Paradigms, his third recording fronting the band, Slonaker guides his peerless eighteen-member ensemble through its paces on a dynamic and always-swinging program that encompasses seven of his stellar original compositions ...

Little Did I Dream

By Susan Krebs

Label: GreenGig Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Just Don't Know What To Do; Little Did I Dream; The Very Thought Of You; I Remember You; My Buddy; You Bother Me; Azure; Not To Worry.

I Just Don't Know What To Do

September 23, 2025

Album: Little Did I Dream
By Susan Krebs
Label: GreenGig Music
Released: 2025
Duration: 03:59

Ode To Joe

By David Whitman

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Time Out; Bop This; Home; Ode to Joe; Ness Please; With Love.

David Whitman: Ode To Joe

by Jack Bowers
October 10, 2023

While West Coast drummer David Whitman's Ode to Joe [Henderson] is a rather brief one at less than thirty-three minutes, it is otherwise admirable for what is enclosed within its concise parameters. Whitman leads a well-schooled septet whose makeup is freshened by rotating tenor saxophonists Bob Sheppard and Rob Lockart and guitarists Bruce Forman and Chris ...

Convergency

By Dave Slonaker

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Convergency; Uncommonly Ground; Duelity; A Gathering Circle; A Curve in the Road; Inner Voices; Sometimes a Notion; Vanishing Point; And Now the News; I Had the Craziest Dream.

Dave Slonaker Big Band: Convergency

by Jack Bowers
August 22, 2022

While big-band albums generally differ, sometimes widely, in tone and temperament, there are definitive criteria by which every one may be evaluated--arrangements, performers, sound quality, sequencing and, above all, the elusive but imperative swing quotient. Dave Slonaker checks all those boxes and more on Convergency, a superlative successor to his excellent Grammy-nominated debut album, Intrada, released ...