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Steve Turre

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One of the world's preeminent jazz innovators, trombonist and seashellist Steve Turre, has consistently won both the Readers' and Critics' polls in JazzTimes, Downbeat, and Jazziz for Best Trombone and for Best Miscellaneous Instrumentalist (shells). Turre was born to Mexican-American parents and grew up in the San Francisco Bay area where he absorbed daily doses of mariachi, blues and jazz. While attending Sacramento State University, he joined the Escovedo Brothers salsa band, which began his career-long involvement with that genre. In 1972 Steve Turre's career picked up momentum when Ray Charles hired him to go on tour

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Afro Blue (10th Anniversary Edition)

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: The Chief; Afro Blue (feat. Gregory Porter); Don't Misunderstand (feat. Norah Jones); My One and Only Love (feat. Jane Monheit); Portrait of Jennie (feat. Kurt Elling); Do It Again (feat. Peter Bernstein).

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Rhythm People

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Rhythm People; Between the Darkness and the Dawn; Maurice’s Interlude; Maurice; Mood Indigo; Daybreak; Worth Saying; The Journey; Our Day Will Come; Psalms 150; 7 Days; Eve’s Deception; Eve’s Deception (Shout Reprise).

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Love Dance

Label: Time Travelers
Released: 2026
Track listing: Love Dance; Obsequious; Sunbath; Zoltan; Soulfully I Love You (Black Spiritual Of Love).

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Maurice

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Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 06:12

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Eddie Allen: Rhythm People

Read "Rhythm People" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Brooklyn-based trumpeter Eddie Allen and his well-groomed sextet, PUSH, truly are Rhythm People, as they prove time and again on Allen's ninth recording as leader of his own group. Whatever the tone or tempo, PUSH swings its merry way through a dozen bright and upbeat tunes, most written and all arranged by Allen, wherein strong and ...

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Michael Dease: MSU Jazz Trombones: Spartan Strong

Read "MSU Jazz Trombones: Spartan Strong" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Michael Dease, widely admired as one of the world's foremost jazz trombonists but rather less-known as an educator, dons his professorial garb on Spartan Strong, supervising a splendid session by a special corps of undergrads (and students in his trombone studio) who together comprise the MSU (Michigan State University) Trombones, twenty-three members in all when one ...

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Afro Blue

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Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 5:47

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Seek & Listen: Live At The Penthouse

Read "Seek & Listen: Live At The Penthouse" reviewed by Jack Kenny


Few figures in jazz history have embodied the word original quite like Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Sightless from infancy, yet bursting with boundless vision, he turned live performance into theatre, ritual and revelation. On stage, he appeared as a commanding silhouette festooned with flutes, whistles, tenor saxophone, clarinet, bells, harmonica and his self-fashioned instruments--the manzello and stritch. ...

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Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Vibrations In The Village: Live At The Village Gate

Read "Vibrations In The Village: Live At The Village Gate" reviewed by Joshua Weiner


Thankfully, fans of classic jazz rarely have long to wait before another wonderful, previously unreleased treasure drops from the indefatigable producer Zev Feldman and the folks at Resonance Records. A pair of live releases by multi-instrumentalist, showman, and musical conjuror Rahsaan Roland Kirk join the limited-edition vinyl lineup for Record Store Day's Black Friday ...


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