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Steve Johns
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Steve Johns was born Stephen Samuel Johns November 25,1960 in Boston, MA and began playing the drums at the age of nine. Mr. Johns grew up in a very musical family. His mother, Goldie Tyler Johns, was a songwriter and three of her brothers were jazz musicians. One of these brothers was the late great Jimmy “Bottoms up”Tyler, a well- known jazz saxophonist that would prove to be Steve’s biggest musical influence and inspiration. At the age of fifteen, Steve decided to pursue jazz as a life long ambition. Steve’s uncle Jimmy suggested that he should get serious and study with the great drummer and master teacher Alan Dawson
Interchange
Label: Steeplechase Lookout
Released: 2023
Track listing: Interchange;
Who Cares;
You’re My Everything;
Invitation;
The Scene Is Clean;
Return;
Yours Is My Heart Alone;
Last Embrace;
Very Early.
Standard-ized!
By Eric Goletz
Label: Consolidated Artists Productions
Released: 2023
Track listing: Now’s the Time; Just in Time; Caravan; Nutville; Nature Boy; Train Shuffle; Jungle Juice;
Mayreh; The Summer Knows; Summertime; Sugar; Windmills of Your Mind; Overjoyed;
Now’s the Time (outro).
David Janeway: Interchange
by Dan McClenaghan
Unearthing and releasing old music--even sounds sourced from decades old tapes--has become common in jazz. Pianist Bill Evans (thank you. Zev Feldman) has enjoyed something of a twenty-first-century renaissance. Pianist Fred Hersch released @ The Village Vanguard (Palmetto Records, 2018), recorded in 1997; and 2021 saw the posthumous release from pianist Masabumi Kikuchi, Hanamichi (Red Hook), ...
Meredith d'Ambrosio: Sometime Ago
by Angelo Leonardi
Dopo dieci anni di silenzio discografico è un gran piacere ascoltare un nuovo album della cantante di Boston, il diciassettesimo per la Sunnyside, con cui pubblica dalla metà degli anni ottanta, qualche anno dopo il suo debutto. Più che cantante Meredith preferisce definirsi “song stylist" e tale resta all'età di 81 anni, senza ...
Eric Goletz: Standard-ized!
by Jack Bowers
If variety is on your wish list, you will find a lot to like on Standard-ized!, New York-based trombonist Eric Goletz's third album in three years. Group size and makeup are seldom the same, Goletz's charts traverse new realms, there are special guests to enhance the proceedings, and Goletz even enlists a six-piece string “orchestra" on ...
Music Keeps Us Young
By Billy Taylor
Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Wouldn’t It Be Loverly; Lover Come Back; I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free; Body and Soul; One for
The
Woofer; Ballade; Naima; Up Jumped Spring; Caravan; Interlude; Arkadia Blues.
Sometime Ago
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: When Springtime Turns to Fall; Feast Your Eyes; In the Moonlight; Sometime Ago; May I Come In; I Wished on the Moon; My Open Heart; I Remember You; Oh Well, What The Hell; If I Should Lose You.
A New Light
By Eric Goletz
Label: Consolidated Artists Productions
Released: 2021
Track listing: Prelude, Before the Light; A New Light; Edge of Night; Dig; Enchanted; Greene Street
Groove; Sunrise, Sunset; Song for Elizabeth; Don’t Gimme That!; The Mirror; Postlude: After
the Light.
Eric Goletz: A New Light
by Jack Bowers
Trombonist Eric Goletz, an in-demand studio musician and sideman in New York City for three decades, released his first album as leader of his own ensemble in March 2021, and quickly followed with the second, A New Light, wherein his core octet is bolstered by three trumpets, half a dozen horns and a five-member string section. ...
