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The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2022
Track listing: (Set 1): Night and Day; Please Stand By; Chelsea Bridge; Three Little Words; Mob Job; Ask Me Now; (Set 2): Out of Nowhere; Ashes; Please Stand By; Three Little Words; Jitterbug Waltz; Mob Job; It Could Happen to You; (Set 3): I Remember You; We’ll Be Together Again; Contemplation; Out of Nowhere; Solar; Ask Me Now.

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Uptown In Orbit

By Emmet Cohen

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Finger Buster; Uptown in Orbit; My Love Will Come Again; Spillin' the Tea; Li'l Darlin'; The Loneliest; Uptown in Orbit(Reprise); Distant Hallow; Mosaic; Venus de Milo; Braggin' in Brass.

Article: Album Review

Tyshawn Sorey Trio +1 (with Greg Osby): The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism

Read "The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
December 13, 2022

Even for a musician who thrives on unsettling expectations, Tyshawn Sorey's Mesmerism (Yeros7 Music, 2022) caught a lot of listeners by surprise. The inimitable drummer's recordings have long occupied that amorphous space between avant-garde jazz and contemporary classical music, and “accessibility" has rarely been the term of choice for his creative output. But utilizing a trio ...

Article: Year in Review

Troy Dostert's Best Releases of 2022

by Troy Dostert
December 12, 2022

Did 2022 represent a return to “normal" in the jazz world? Perhaps, although it might be more valuable to keep our eyes focused on the shifting trajectories and stylistic heterodoxies that make this music as unpredictable and surprising as ever. Releases from Steve Lehman and Eve Risser were especially noteworthy, involving pan-continental strivings that are always ...

Article: Album Review

Emmet Cohen: Uptown In Orbit

Read "Uptown In Orbit" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
October 12, 2022

Pianist/composer/educator/impresario Emmet Cohen has proven himself time and time again to be one of the guiding lights of 21st century jazz. And he may have/could have single-handedly saved our collective sanity and jazz's continued rise and relevance when, in the face of a world plague, he began streaming Live From Emmet's Place from his apartment in ...

Article: Rising Stars

Meet Saxophonist Zoe Obadia

by Sanford Josephson
September 1, 2022

In April 2019, alto saxophonist Zoe Obadia sat in with the Bill Charlap Trio to play Dave Brubeck's “Time Out" at International Jazz Day. “I was definitely very nervous to sit in with such an established and refined trio," she said," but I had fun and felt very supported on stage and off." Said Charlap: “She ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Emmet Cohen has one foot in the tradition, and another in the future

by Leo Sidran
August 3, 2022

Within about a week of home quarantine in March 2020, pianist Emmet Cohen started live-streaming shows every Monday night from his apartment in Harlem.At first it was just Cohen and his bandmates, drummer Kyle Poole and bassist Russell Hall, set up in Cohen's living room. Eventually they started inviting guests, and Emmet's Place became ...

Article: Rising Stars

Meet Vocalist Anais Reno

by Sanford Josephson
March 1, 2022

When she was eight years old, Anais Reno (now 18) began taking voice lessons from singer/songwriter Sarah Tolar. “I feel very grateful to her," Reno said, “because after a couple of months of working together, she sensed that maybe some older American Songbook music would be good for me. So, she started to give me songs ...

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Future Stride

By Emmet Cohen

Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Symphony Raps; Reflections at Dusk; Toast To Lo; Future Stride; Second Time Around; Dardanella; You Already Know; Pitter Panther Patter; My Heart Stood Still; Little Angel.

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Lovesome Thing: Anaïs Reno sings Ellington & Strayhorn featuring Emmet Cohen

By Anaïs Reno

Label: Harbinger Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Caravan; Mood Indigo; Still in Love; Chelsea Bridge / A Flower is a Lovesome Thing; I'm Just a Lucky So-and- So; It's Kind of Lonesome Tonight; Day Dream; I Ain't Got Nothing but the Blues; All Roads Lead Back to You; U.M.M.G. (Upper Manhattan Medical Group); Lush Life; Take the "A" Train.