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Sara Caswell

2018 Grammy Nominee Sara Caswell “is a brilliant world-class violinist…one of the very best of the present generation of emerging young jazz stars” according to the late David Baker, internationally-renowned jazz educator and former Director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Rooted in an early exposure to a variety of musical genres, Sara’s technical facility intertwined with her gift for lyricism continue to attract growing attention to her artistry as a jazz soloist, sideman, and teacher. Recognized as a “Rising Star” in the DownBeat Magazine Critics and Readers Polls every year since 2013, Sara’s two groups (the Sara Caswell Quartet and the Caswell Sisters Quintet) have been heard in venues ranging from Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Dizzy’s Club to university concert halls nationwide

Handmade

By Emilio Solla

Label: Club Del Discos
Released: 2026
Track listing: Suite de Los Abrazos, III-Bodegon Canibal; Joni Mitchell; Suite de Los Abrazos, I-Milonga Mutante; Para el Agua; Suite de Los Abrazos, II-The Loss; Miles Tango; Bird Song; La Carta; De Viento y de Sal.

Alive With Ghosts Today

By Chris Potter

Label: Edition Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Alive With Ghosts Today 1; Osawatomie Brown; The Heavens In Scarlet; This Earth Would Have No Charms For Me; Into Africa; Mine Eyes; Alive With Ghosts Today 2

Emilio Solla and La Inestable de Brooklyn: Handmade

by Joshua Weiner
July 15, 2026

As the power of artificial intelligence (AI) grows exponentially, it has begun to permeate even the highest expressions of our humanity. AI-generated art of many kinds--literary, visual, and musical--appears on screens large and small daily. Handmade, a gorgeous double album by New York-based Argentinian pianist and composer Emilio Solla, featuring his nonet Inestable de Brooklyn, seeks ...

Emilio Solla y La Inestable de Brooklyn: Handmade

by Dean Nardi
July 7, 2026

Emilio Solla has a mischievous, playful side that often manifests itself in his music. For example, his album, Handmade (Club del Disco, 2025) was recorded with a nonet, La Inestable de Brooklyn. What does the unstable (or the instability) in the orchestra's name refer to? The compositions? The playing? Or the fact that Solla uses all ...

Chris Potter: Osawatomie Brown

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 10, 2026

Dire che Chris Potter sia uno dei sassofonisti più portentosi della scena contemporanea è un po' come raccontare a un napoletano perché la pizza è buona. Ma quando Potter incastona il suo virtuosismo strumentale all'interno di composizioni altrettanto solide e li ammanta di sofisticati arrangiamenti la sua arte raggiunge vette sublimi. Alive with Ghosts ...

Chris Potter: Osawatomie Brown

by Ludovico Granvassu
June 8, 2026

Telling you that Chris Potter is one of the most spellbinding saxophonists on today's scene feels a bit like explaining the virtues of pizza to a Neapolitan. Yet, it is when his formidable instrumental command is framed by equally strong compositions and imaginative arrangements that his artistry shines brightest. Alive with Ghosts Today (Edition ...

Chris Potter: Alive With Ghosts Today

by Kevin Poindexter
June 5, 2026

The history of America is haunted by ghosts of the past. These ghosts transform our present-day landscape, our everyday lives, and inform the very core of our existence. On Alive With Ghosts Today (Edition Records, 2026), saxophonist Chris Potter  steps away from the normal high-adrenaline jazz that has signified his recent outings and has instead put together a ...

The Gil Evans Project at Birdland

by Paul Reynolds
June 4, 2026

The Gil Evans Project Birdland  Sketches of Spain and Porgy and Bess New York NY May 27 and May 30, 2026 Among the many celebrations of Miles Davis during his centennial week, it's hard to rival the ambition of Ryan Truesdell's fine five-night takeover of the main room at Birdland to ...

May Yu and the Evolving Voice of the Jazz Violin

by Kyle Simpler
May 7, 2026

On April 19, 2026, violinist May (Tianyang) Yu performed at NYU Skirball as part of To the Stars and Night, a gala event that included a string quartet piece commissioned by China's Ministry of Culture and developed by the Central Conservatory of Music. The production brought together institutional Chinese arts programming, conservatory-level ...