Results for "Sam First Records"

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2024

If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

Clam City

Label: Sam First Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Church of Bill Hilton; New Wave Theater; New Jersey Ballad; This West; Boo Boo’s Birthday; Fugue Robotique; Chongo’s Song; Return To Jerz.

Humanoid

By Rachel Eckroth

Label: Sam First Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Humanoid; Mind; Lawns; Under a Fig Tree; Fleurette Africaine; Evolution; Strange Meeting; Vines.

LA Stories: Live at Sam First

By Josh Nelson

Label: Sam First Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Forward Momentum; Tiburcio; Old Friend; Lonely Are The Brave; Red Car Reminiscing; Feed The Birds; Lullaby for Ludvig; Travel Town; Spirit.

World Travelers

By Joe La Barbera

Label: Sam First Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Blue Notes; Landmarks Along The Way; Lake Erie; Barcelona; You Know I Care; It's A Big Wide Wonderful World; Simone; Soultrane; Grand Central.

Mike Jurkovic's Best Albums Of 2023

by Mike Jurkovic
December 14, 2023

Led by Veronica Swift and Lakecia Benjamin, 2023 spotlighted some brilliantly moving new music in a year of previously unheard masterpieces. If music soothes the savage beast, this was a great year to be listening. John ColtraneEvenings At The Village Gate Impulse! Records

New Jersey Ballad

November 17, 2023

Album: Clam City
Label: Sam First Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 01:37

Strange Meeting

October 14, 2023

Album: Humanoid
By Rachel Eckroth
Label: Sam First Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 07:37

Rachel Eckroth: Humanoid

by Sharonne Cohen
October 6, 2023

"Humanoid is a departure for me," Rachel Eckroth said when we spoke about her new piano quartet album, recorded at Sam First jazz club in Los Angeles on October 28 and 29, 2022. Taking her first piano lesson at the age of five, this accomplished, multifaceted musician has honed her craft over the four decades since, ...

Josh Nelson: LA Stories: Live at Sam First

by Robert Petersen
October 5, 2023

Josh Nelson's LA Stories: Live at Sam First was recorded in February 2022 at Sam First, which has quickly become the heartbeat of L.A.'s jazz community. With this album, Nelson continues a love letter to Los Angeles he began with his 2017 release, The Sky Remains, which was part of his Discovery Project multimedia series. In ...