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Vijay Anderson

Vijay Anderson is a freelance drummer, bandleader, composer, and teacher who recently relocated to Brooklyn, New York. He has performed and recorded with Los Angeles-based multi-instrumentalists Lynn Johnston and Vinny Golia; Bay Area composers/performers Ben Goldberg, Sheldon Brown, Graham Connah, Darren Johnston, Smith Dobson V, Lisa Mezzacappa, Aaron Bennett, Ava Mendoza, Hafez Modirzadeh and saxophonist/composer Marco Eneidi. He has worked extensively with bass player/composer Adam Lane as part of Lane’s Full Throttle Orchestra, the Adam Lane Trio featuring Vinny Golia, and Adam Lane’s Blue Spirit Band featuring Avram Fefer and Roy Campbell

trio for three

By Aaron Bennett

Label: ADB Sound
Released: 2025
Track listing: Raise Four; Adams Rib; Ask Me Now; Ocean; Balderdash; Sonification; Let's Call This; Quiet Tango

Wheat Fields of Kleylehof

By Marco Eneidi

Label: Balance Point Acoustics
Released: 2025
Track listing: Prelude; Wheat Fields of Kleylehof Part 1; Wheat Fields of Kleylehof Part 2; Wheat Fields of Kleylehof Part 3; Wheat Fields of Kleylehof Part 4; Wheat Fields of Kleylehof Part 5; Wheat Fields of Kleylehof Part 6.

Marco Eneidi Quintet: Wheat Fields of Kleylehof

by Mark Corroto
November 30, 2025

To borrow a phrase once associated with Charlie Parker after his death: “Marco Eneidi lives!" Though less widely known in the mainstream jazz world, alto saxophonist Marco Eneidi (1956--2016) was a towering figure in free jazz and creative music. A West Coast native, he moved to New York in the 1980s and, following the passing of ...

Louis Sclavis, David León, Roby Glod & Joy Guidry

by Maurice Hogue
March 28, 2024

Reed players have taken over the house this week. The eminent clarinetist Louis Sclavis stars in an excellent quartet using music, text and spoken word to create a moody sonic landscape out of short stories, poems and aphorisms by French and African authors. Other European saxophonists heard are Luxembourg's Roby Glod in a familiar setting with ...

Angelica Sanchez, Sylvie Courvoisier, Rodrigo Amado & Jeff Cosgrove

by Maurice Hogue
November 13, 2023

There's some great new music coming your way in this edition: Portuguese saxophone powerhouse Rodrigo Amado's Bridge Quartet is free jazz royalty with pianist Alexander Von Schlippenbach, bassist Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten & drummer Gerry Hemingway. Their new album Beyond The Margins is a must-listen. So are new albums from two of the leading pianists around today: Angelica ...

Daniel Carter, Chicago Edge Ensemble, & Charlotte Keeffe

by Maurice Hogue
October 25, 2023

Music on the edge prevails in this episode, highlighted by the ubiquitous multi-instrumentalist Daniel Carter, Chicago guitarist Dan Phillips and his Chicago Edge Ensemble, and a Polish/Spanish quintet that features guitarist Grzegorz Lesiak, trumpeter Piotr Damasiewicz and the members of the Liba Villavecchia Trio. James Baldwin's works are the subject of a baldwin en transit, French ...

Vijay Anderson, Mike Reed, Francisco Mela & Irreversible Entanglements

by Maurice Hogue
October 10, 2023

Some drummers in the spotlight in this episode: LA/New York's Vijay Anderson and his Silver Screen Quintet tackle an city problem on the new Urban Jungle Los Angeles , while Chicago's Mike Reed explores loneliness and isolation on his new The Separatist Party. Francisco Mela teams up with one of his students at Berklee, saxophonist Jonathan ...

Another Spring

By Cheryl Richards

Label: New Artists Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: 1. The Song is Ended (but the Melody Lingers on); 2.Love Me or Leave Me; 3. My Melancholy Baby; 4. Mood Indigo; 5. It’s You or No One; 6. Love You Madly; 7. All About You/How About You; 8. There Will Never Be Another You; 9. More Than You Know; 10. Nature Boy; 11. Cheryl

Cheryl Richards: Another Spring, Another Song

by Jakob Baekgaard
August 9, 2022

It can be hard to find new things to say in old songs, but after many years of singing the standards, some singers are still able to discover the secret of a song. Cheryl Richards is a shining example of a singer who has been able to prove the relevance of the standards for a modern ...