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Steve Davis is widely regarded as one of today's leading improvisors on the trombone. His lyrical, hard-swinging style first gained him broad recognition during the 1990's while working with the bands of jazz legends Art Blakey, Jackie McLean, Chick Corea's acclaimed sextet Origin and the renowned cooperative sextet, One For All. Born in Worcester, MA in 1967, Steve was raised in Binghamton, NY and graduated in 1989 from The Hartt School's Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz (University of Hartford). It was Mc Lean's guidence and recommendation that helped Davis land his first major gig with Art Blakey in NYC in Dec 1989
Steve Davis Meets Hank Jones, Volume 2
By Steve Davis
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: My Heart Stood Still; Could Write a Book;
Nardis;
Invitation;
The Nearness of You;
Nardis (alternate take);
I Could Write a Book (alternate take);
The Nearness of You (quartet version).
Decidedly so
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: D.J.; Decidedly So; Good Health; 10th Anniversary; This Nearly Was Mine; When I Grow Too
Old To Dream; When I Fall In Love; Jimmy's Blues.
Tuesday Morning Feeling
By Ben Markley
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Tell The Truth; JIFE; Ben's Tune; Off Minor; Snowy Range Blues; Old Folks; Tuesday Morning Feeling; 1330; NPS;
'Mon Back; Groundwork.
Now In Time
By Nat Reeves
Label: The Side Door
Released: 2026
Track listing: Blue Ridge; Katea’s Dance; Appointment in Ghana; Portrait of Jennie;
Sounds of the Flying Pysgmies; For RJ; Dave’s System; The Creator
Has a Master Plan; On Green Dolphin Street; Alice in Wonderland;
Samba D’Blue.
I Could Write A Book
Album: Steve Davis Meets Hank Jones, Volume 2
By Steve Davis
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 04:28
Mike DiRubbo: Way Out Northwest
by Pierre Giroux
Some recordings try to overwhelm the listener with grand statements. With Way Out Northwest, alto saxophonist Mike DiRubbo is not trying to reinvent modern jazz but to remind us how rewarding it can be when four musicians know one another, allowing the music to develop through relationships built over time. Pianist Tilden Webb, bassist Jodi Proznick ...
Eli Howell: Steps Taken
by Jack Bowers
Picture this: Having assembled a supporting cast, finalized the playlist and booked a studio, you are ready to make the debut recording as leader of your own ensemble, only to learn that, hours earlier, said studio in East Lansing, Michigan, had been devastated by a tornado. That is exactly what happened to trombonist Eli Howell in ...
Ben Markley Big Band: Tuesday Morning Feeling
by Jack Bowers
When a bandleader says he plans to rely less on arranging the music of others to focus more on his own compositions and charts, the usual response is a prolonged sigh or indifferent shrug of the shoulders --which makes it all the more remarkable that when pianist and composer Ben Markley did exactly that on Tuesday ...
Nat Reeves: Now In Time
by Jack Bowers
As a gift for Nat Reeves' 70th birthday in May 2025, Ken Kitchings, owner of the Side Door Jazz Club in Old Lyme, Connecticut, said he would underwrite a recording for the renowned bassist using whatever musicians Reeves chose to recruit. Having played and recorded with a who's who of jazz luminaries during his 50-plus-year career, ...
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