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Somewhere around 1900, Eleazar Thomas migrated from Wales to settle in the coal-mining community of Dickson City, Pennsylvania where he met his wife Martha and had four children: Mary, Benjamin Llywellen, David Wesley, and, my father, “Buddy” (Arja Worthington) born in 1917. Buddy’s two older brothers, Ben and Wesley, had each begun to work in the mines at the age of nine but Martha refused to allow Buddy, her youngest son, to join them, or so goes the official family story. Martha took her children to her sister’s boarding house in Newark, New Jersey; Eleazar joined them sometime later

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Mabrouka

By Paul Colombo

Label: Paul Colombo Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Homestyle; Mabrouka; Eleanor Rigby; Ali; JB; Dancing; Jazz; Mr. Blues; Louie; Bellecastle Blues.

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Gods and Devils

March 20, 2026

Album: Easter Island Suite
By John Vanore
Label: acoustical concepts
Released: 2026
Duration: 7:08

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Mabrouka

March 2, 2026

Album: Mabrouka
By Paul Colombo
Label: Paul Colombo Music
Released: 2025
Duration: 04:54

Article: Album Review

John Vanore & Abstract Truth: Easter Island Suite

Read "Easter Island Suite" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
January 26, 2026

The spirit of Oliver Nelson and the thousand ghosts of Easter Island loom large over John Vanore & Abstract Truth's Easter Island Suite. The Nelson side of the equation has its roots in trumpeter Vanore's attendance at a Nelson-directed summer program at Indiana University, which led him, as a student, into deeper explorations of Nelson's work, ...

Article: Album Review

John Vanore & Abstract Truth: Easter Island Suite

Read "Easter Island Suite" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 15, 2026

The first and last movements of Philadelphia-based trumpeter and composer John Vanore's epic Easter Island Suite were recorded thirty-five years apart, in 1989 and 2024, which says a lot about his determination to shepherd the ambitious enterprise to its conclusion. Movements 2 and 3 of the picturesque Suite were recorded in 2012. Even today, ...

Article: Album Review

Paul Colombo Group: Mabrouka

Read "Mabrouka" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
January 12, 2026

Guitarist Paul Colombo is blessed in his collaborative album, Mabrouka, with a group of imaginative and inspired sidemen, including, most notably, keyboardist Ron Thomas. This is Colombo's sophomore outing, following Rio Crystal (Vectordisc Records, 2021), and Thomas, bassist Andy Alonso and drummer Chris Loser make return appearances on Mabrouka. Add guest slots by flutist Tom Strohman ...

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Easter Island Suite

By John Vanore

Label: acoustical concepts
Released: 2026
Track listing: Mvt 1--Discovery; Mvt 2--Gods & Devils; Mvt 3--The Secret Caves; Mvt 4--Rano Raraku.

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Rio Crystal

By Paul Colombo

Label: Vectordisc Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Rio Crystal; This Heart; Junior; Lovesick; Motion Potion; Wakin' Up; YBB; Soul Mates.

Article: Interview

Pat Martino: Creative Force

by Mike Brannon
November 2, 2021

This article was first published at All About Jazz in June 2000. Pat Martino. A name that strikes anything from fear to sheer awe and reverence in musicians who know who this is. And what he's done and been through. And continues to go through. The name resonates a bridge between the true Jazz ...