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Doug Lawrence: Doug Lawrence & Friends

Read "Doug Lawrence & Friends" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
December 11, 2021

If the name Doug Lawrence doesn't sound familiar, the name Count Basie surely should. What is the Lawrence- Basie connection? Well, for more than two decades Lawrence has been the featured tenor saxophone soloist with the renowned and still- active Count Basie Orchestra, a chair once impressively occupied by the likes of Lester Young, Eddie Lockjaw" ...

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Doug MacDonald: Serenade to Highland Park

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by Jack Bowers
December 10, 2021

On Serenade to Highland Park, three consummate professionals salute the Los Angeles neighborhood in which the album was recorded. The three are guitarist Doug MacDonald, bassist Mike Flick and drummer Paul Kreibich, each of whom is among the best-known and busiest jazz musicians on the West Coast. Listening to them play is akin to catching a ...

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Angel Roman & Mambo Blue: Festive Interplay

Read "Festive Interplay" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
December 9, 2021

Latin Jazz as presented by guitarist Angel Roman, is a combination of Afro Latin rhythms from a variety of sources, but when blended with Brazilian, pop, and fusion the music results in a new stew which, while recognizable, has different flavours, fragrances and textures. Delivering this mélange is the band Mambo Blue, whose membership ebbs and ...

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OSU Jazz Orchestra: Room 118

by Jack Bowers
December 6, 2021

Room 118 honors the space in the Seretean Center for the Performing Arts wherein the splendid Oklahoma State University Jazz Orchestra and other on-campus jazz groups held their rehearsals for many years. There must be something special there, as the OSU ensemble is one of the most well-rehearsed university-level jazz ensembles you're likely to encounter this ...

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Torben Westergaard: Then/Now

Read "Then/Now" reviewed by Geno Thackara

by Geno Thackara
December 3, 2021

While Torben Westergaard has had a grand time bouncing from one surprising idea to another to another in previous years--crossing oceans with his Tangofied series, crossing continents with the Euro-Korean Gori Project (self produced, 2020), plus a few more niche-focused detours in between--it turns out it is just as pleasant to hear him settled on comfortably ...

Song of the Day

Presagio

December 2, 2021

Album: Música, Ruidos y Ambientes
By Javier García
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Duration: 02:10

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Noam Lemish: Erlebnisse

Read "Erlebnisse" reviewed by Troy Dostert

by Troy Dostert
December 1, 2021

Long a part of the Toronto jazz scene, pianist Noam Lemish hasn't at all been limited to that genre. He has made plenty of jazz recordings, some of the best of which include drummer George Marsh: their self-produced duo album Nightfall (2013) is an especially winning slice of post-bop jazz. But Lemish may be at his ...