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Take Five with Tubist Jim Shearer
by AAJ Staff
Meet Jim Shearer Jim Shearer was born in Water Valley, Mississippi, in 1964. His family owned the local newspaper, The North Mississippi Herald, from 1943-2004, and his father was an active musician on the side, playing jazz saxophone and serving as Minister of Music at the family church (but never at the same time!). After spending ...
The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra: The Stage Door Still Swings (And Movies Too)
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Since around 2001, noted trumpeter Mike Vax has periodically assembled an extraordinarily talented group of former members of the Stan Kenton's, Maynard Ferguson's and other elite bands and led that crew on short performance tours (and clinics) around various sections of the United States. While an alum group and not a “ghost band," their repertoire is ...
The Scott Whitfield Jazz Orchestra West: Postcards from Hollywood
by Jack Bowers
While many people have been excited or enraptured by the music scores accompanying Hollywood's most beloved films, few know (or perhaps even care) who wrote them. That's a shame, as these composers (and their contemporaries) were musical trailblazers whose names should be enshrined forever in the annals of artistic brilliance. One who does care is composer/arranger ...
The Color Of Wood
By Tom Collier
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: The Color Of Wood; Five Reflections On Wood - Portraint Of Cheryl; Five Reflections On Wood - A
Sister’s Radiant Painting; Five Reflections On Wood - Portrait Of A Scarlet Flower; Five Reflections On
Wood - Shelling At Horsehead Bay; Five Reflections On Wood - Ode To A Sunset; Dance Of The
Avaricious Dolt; Little Sunflower; Galvanic Juncture; I'm So Lonesome, I Could Cry; Genesee;
Hopscotch; I Haven't Seen The Rain; The Owls Seem What They Want; Crying
Live at the Baked Potato!
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Peep; Arc of the Pendulum; African Skies; Never Alone; Not Ethiopia; Slings and Arrows; Talking to Myself; The Mean
Time; Song for Barry.
Glass Spheres
By Chris Mondak
Label: Summit Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Low; Oath Keeper; Brume; In Sleep; Juicy Red; The Only One; Hats Off.
Chris Mondak: Glass Spheres
by Kyle Simpler
Until now, bassist Chris Mondak has been impressing only live audiences. With his album debut, Glass Spheres, he hopes to connect with a wider audience. Mondak's life has been far from ordinary. He was born in Venezuela and raised in Illinois. While in high school, he was awarded Illinois All-State Musician three times and received numerous ...
Chris Mondak: Glass Spheres
by Edward Blanco
The 24-year-old Venezuelan-born bassist and composer Chris Mondak presents his latest recording of exciting new jazz on the varied Glass Spheres, offering an intriguing and absorbing selection of originals that explores a range of styles from swing, pop and bebop to avant-garde. Based in Nashville, Tennessee, Mondak and his band have become a regular feature in ...
Charged Particles: Live at the Baked Potato!
by Mark Sullivan
The late tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker was held in the highest regard by fellow saxophonists, while at the same time being seen as far too eclectic to be part of the jazz pantheon (due in no small part to his sideman work in rock and pop). This album focuses on Brecker as composer, spanning three decades ...
Dominican Jazz Project: Desde Lejos
by Chris M. Slawecki
DJP's primary composer and keyboard player Stephen Anderson has worked to get the DJP back into the studio after their 2016 Dominican Jazz Project (Summit Records) debut received so much critical and popular acclaim. The 2020 pandemic and attendant lockdowns delayed but did not cancel this follow-up, which the band recorded Desde Lejos--"From Afar."
