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Vincent Herring

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Vincent Herring is a saxophone virtuoso with a uniquely intense and vigorous musical voice. He is considered one of the premier saxophonists of his generation. Vincent first toured Europe and the United States with Lionel Hampton’s big band in the early 1980’s. As he developed his musicianship working with Nat Adderley, a partnership blossomed that continued for nine years. Along the way he worked and/or recorded with Cedar Walton, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Hayes, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver Quintet, Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition, Larry Coryell, Steve Turre, The Mingus Big Band, Kenny Barron, Nancy Wilson, Dr

Album

Duos

By Bernie Senensky

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: The Mover; I Hear A Rhapsody; I Thought About You; Bud Lines; In My Life; Lolito; My One & Only Love; One Is Enough; Come To Me; Silver Trane.

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Article: Rising Stars

Introducing Saxophonist Jacob Chung

Read "Introducing Saxophonist Jacob Chung" reviewed by Sanford Josephson

by Sanford Josephson

 Growing up in Toronto, Jacob Chung was introduced to jazz by his grandfather. “He had a record player," Chung recalled, “and he had Dave Brubeck's Time Out album. He also liked Duke Ellington and Ben Webster." Chung was playing classical piano when he entered middle school, “and they started giving you wind instruments. I ...

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Article: Album Review

Richard Baratta: Another Kind of Bird

Read "Another Kind of Bird" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux

Charlie Parker's music has withstood every conceivable tribute. It has been copied, analyzed, celebrated, and occasionally embalmed by its own importance. Imagine the surprise at the release of drummer-percussionist Richard Baratta's Another Kind of Bird, which is not another museum-piece salute to Bird. Baratta and pianist-arranger Bill O'Connell treat Parker's compositions as living, breathing works capable ...

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Article: Album Review

Richard Baratta: Another Kind of Bird

Read "Another Kind of Bird" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers

Even today, more than seventy years after his death at the young age of thirty-four, the legendary alto saxophonist Charlie “Yardbird" Parker remains incomparable, as a player and composer who almost singlehandedly changed the vocabulary of jazz, introducing revisions and concepts that have never worn thin or gone out of style. Simply put, no one had ...

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News: Career

Explode Your Jazz Career! Free Jazz Professional Workshop 'The Business Of The Beat'

Explode Your Jazz Career! Free Jazz Professional Workshop  'The Business Of The Beat'

The Jazz Society of Fairfield County (aka JazzFC), CT's premier Jazz performing, educational, and service nonprofit, will host a free Professional Development Day for professional and pre-professional Jazz performers and composers on Thursday, April 30, from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM at Jazz at the Post (VFW Post 399), 465 Riverside Avenue, Westport, CT. Designed to ...

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Article: Album Review

Bernie Senensky: Duos

Read "Duos" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux

Duos by Bernie Senensky is a record built on patience, craftsmanship, and the quiet confidence of musicians working together. It is a carefully arranged and well-executed set that highlights one of Canada's most respected pianists performing in a duo, accompanied only by a saxophone voice from a select group of notable North American saxophonists, where any ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Heisenberg Uncertainty Players, Brodie McAllister’s Wattle, Laura Ann Singh

Read "Heisenberg Uncertainty Players, Brodie McAllister’s Wattle, Laura Ann Singh" reviewed by Cheryl K.

by Cheryl K.

During this week's two-hour program of jazz and improvised music, sounds to take the chill off: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra's “Chelsea Bridge"; the Heisenberg Uncertainty Players's “Catalpa"; Bellbird's “Phthalo Green"; Brodie McAllister's Wattle's “Starlight"; saxophonists' Eric Alexander and Vincent Herring's “Strollin'"; vocalist Laura Ann Singh's “Do Not Remain"; saxophonist Joel Miller's “Harvey"; composer Ron Rieder's ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Favorite Jazz and Fusion Albums 2025 - Music from Artemis, Behn Gillece, Johnathan Blake, Hiromi, and Others

Read "Favorite Jazz and Fusion Albums 2025 - Music from Artemis, Behn Gillece, Johnathan Blake, Hiromi, and Others" reviewed by David W. Daniels

by David W. Daniels

A subjectively selected “Best 25 jazz and jazz fusion albums of 2025" list, with artists as diverse as Branford Marsalis, Phil Bancroft, Ella Fitzgerald, and Yellowjackets. Playlist Artemis “Sights Unseen"--from Arboresque (Blue Note) 00:00 Branford Marsalis Quartet “'Long As You Know You're Living Yours"--from Belonging (Blue Note) 7:21 Nnenna Freelon “Changed"--from Beneath The Skin ...

Album

Split Decision

By Vincent Herring

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Pharoah's Dance; Strollin'; A Peck a Sec; My Romance; Soft Impressions; Mo's Theme.


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