Results for "Tom Luer"

Tom Luer

Tom Luer is a freelance saxophonist who resides in Los Angeles, CA, and is a Rico Reeds Performing Artist. His album "Project Popular" was released in 2011 to critical acclaim. Most recently, Tom appeared on Dave Slonaker’s Grammy nominated album “Intrada”. Additional recording credits include Grammy winning jazz vocalist Kurt Elling's "The Brill Building Project", the Mike Barone Big Band "Birdland", Cooper Phillip’s “Walk A Mile”, and Paul Tynan and Aaron Lington’s “Bicoastal Collective”. Recently, NPR used music from Tom's CD in a nationally broadcast promo. Tom recently performed on the NBC broadcast of “Sports Illustrated 50 Years of Beautiful” and on the “X-Factor” on Fox

Presenting the Dan West Big Band

By Dan West

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Descant; Tell Me a Bedtime Story; Besmirched, Befuddled & Verklempt; Nirvana O’Rama; Beeba; Zoisha; Wayside Walk.

Shifty Paradigms

By Dave Slonaker

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Dash Cam; Bye Bye Blues; Comin’ Home; Blue Windows; Shifty Paradigms; 3rd and Four; Cathedrals; Roundabout.

Dan West: Presenting the Dan West Big Band

by Jack Bowers
March 29, 2026

"If it walks like a big band and talks like a big band..." well, that does not always mean it actually is a big band. For example, Los Angeles-based composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Dan West 's able group is by and large an octet which, by means of modern electronics, has been transformed into a full-fledged ...

Shifty Paradigms

February 19, 2026

Album: Shifty Paradigms
By Dave Slonaker
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 07:59

Dave Slonaker Big Band: Shifty Paradigms

by Jack Bowers
February 16, 2026

While Los Angeles-based composer and arranger Dave Slonaker's paradigms may be shifty, his all-star big band is about as forthright as one could wish. On Shifty Paradigms, his third recording fronting the band, Slonaker guides his peerless eighteen-member ensemble through its paces on a dynamic and always-swinging program that encompasses seven of his stellar original compositions ...

Sam Rivers 100

By Mark Masters

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Fuchsia Swing Song; Cycl8ic Episode; Helix; Parts Of Speech; Point Of Many Returns; Beatrice; Downstairs Blues Upstairs; Calls Of The Wild; Paean; Ellipsis; Luminous Monolith.

Downstairs Blues Upstairs

September 14, 2025

Album: Sam Rivers 100
By Mark Masters
Label: Capri Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 4:11

Mark Masters: Sam Rivers 100

by Jack Bowers
May 23, 2025

Sam Rivers 100 is the first of two homages recorded in 2023-24 by arranger Mark Masters and his blue chip southern California-based ensemble. This one pays tribute to the music of the late saxophonist Sam Rivers on the hundredth anniversary of his birth; the second, Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! salutes the music of tenor saxophonist Billy ...

Geoff Stradling: Nimble Digits

by Jack Bowers
May 18, 2024

Remember the good old days when bandleaders would give a downbeat and their bands would start swinging and keep on doing so until their audiences literally begged for more? Welcome to the past--present tense--courtesy of pianist Geoff Stradling's superb Los Angeles-based StradBand, which swings heartily and with seldom a pause on its radiant and power-laden introductory ...