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Eternal

Label: Pearl Coast Jazz
Released: 2023
Track listing: The Saga of Harrison Crabfeathers; A Flower is a Lovesome Thing; What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life; Where Is Love; You Are There; Star Dust; Nature Boy; Yesterday I Heard the Rain; Love Came On Stealthy Fingers; On a Clear Day; With Every Breath You Take; Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

News: Recording

Charles Pillow Large Ensemble Set To Release 'Electric Miles 2' on October 6th

August 25, 2023

Charles Pillow Large Ensemble Electric Miles 2 The follow-up to acclaimed saxophonist/arranger Charles Pillow’s, “Electric Miles” , one of NPR’s top ten CD’s for 2018, is a further exploration of Miles Davis’ early electric period, 1969-74, arranged for a large jazz ensemble. This time Pillows’ arrangements add 3 french horns in addition to the usual big ...

Article: Album Review

Wayne Escoffery: Like Minds

by Dave Linn
June 21, 2023

Wayne Escoffery was born in London and raised in New Haven, Connecticut. He began playing the saxophone at the age of 11, later studying at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. In the late 1990s, Escoffery started gaining recognition on the jazz scene with ...

Article: Interview

Wayne Escoffery: Still Forging Ahead

by R.J. DeLuke
May 22, 2023

Saxophonist Wayne Escoffery has a long, ongoing association with the Mingus Big Band organization, including a Grammy for Mingus Big Band Live at Jazz Standard (Jazz Workshop, Inc., Sue Mingus Music, 2010). His career also includes a special relationship with trumpeter Tom Harrell, with whom he has played for many years. All that is enough to ...

Article: Liner Notes

Tom Harrell: Number Five

by John Kelman
April 24, 2023

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it," they say, and since coming to HighNote in 2007, trumpeter Tom Harrell has lived by that old adage, utilizing the same quintet for its auspicious debut, Light On, and three subsequent recordings, culminating in 2011's outstanding Time of the Sun. Number Five continues Harrell's winning streak with the same ...

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Song of the Day

My Truth feat. Gregory Porter

April 14, 2023

Album: Like Minds
By Wayne Escoffery
Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 07:55

Article: Liner Notes

Steve Slagle: Into The Heart Of It

by Dan Bilawsky
March 11, 2023

In a storied career that's produced more than 20 leader dates, there's little that Steve Slagle hasn't explored and accomplished. Yet here we are with a true first from the veteran alto saxophonist: A stunning bouquet of ballads. Inspired by lodestar outings from legends like John Coltrane, and driven by a desire to find a personalized ...

Album

Riverside

By Oz Noy

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: All the Things You Are; Anthropology; Have You Met Miss Jones; Billie's Bounce; Riverside Blues; 6/8 Lunch Break; Out of Nowhere; Donna Lee; This Could Be the Start of Something Big; Sunny.

Album

First Move

By Aaron Seeber

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Brandyn; Out of the Past; Eleventh Hour; Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love; First Move; Unconditional Love; Fire Waltz; Klactoveedsedstene.

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Into the Heart of it

By Steve Slagle

Label: Panorama Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Blue in Green; Le Sucrier Velours (Queen's Suite); Reflections; My One and Only Love; The Heart of It; Kiss Lonely Goodbye; Si, See; If You Could See Me Now; The Four Margarets; Big Mac.