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Two Masters
Album: Blues Sky
By Dave Hanson
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 05:10
Don't Bring It Up
Album: Tell the Truth
By Ben Markley
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 06:06
David Caffey Jazz Orchestra: At the Edge of Spring
by Jack Bowers
With his album, At the Edge of Spring, composer and arranger David Caffey and his Colorado-based Jazz Orchestra not only defy the widely-held belief that big bands are dead, they emphatically blow that axium out of the water. This is an ensemble with no discernible weaknesses, as proficient and powerful as any that have come before ...
Vibes on a Breath
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: If I Only Had A Brain; Nature Boy; Roaring Fork Closure; We’ll Get Through This; Stolen Moments;
Subconscious Lee; New Orleans; It Could Happen To You; In Your Quiet Place; Seven Steps To
Heaven; Bus.
Jack Bowers' Best Jazz Albums Of 2023
by Jack Bowers
2023 was another banner year for jazz of all shapes and sizes. It has been a pleasure to review so many splendid big-band albums along with wonderful enterprises by smaller groups, some of which were recording for the first time (hopefully, not the last). If this was a preview of things to come, we look forward ...
Interview With Jazz Saxophonist Wil Swindler
by Steven Roby
Composer and saxophonist Wil Swindler currently resides near Denver, CO, where he leads Wil Swindler's Elevenet, the modern bop quintet GoodRattle, and the Wil Swindler Quartet. In addition to his own bands, he is an active performer with the Peter Sommer Septet, Al Hood's H2 Big Band, the Colorado Symphony, the Ben Markley Big Band , ...
Ted Piltzecker: Vibes on a Breath
by Jack Bowers
Even though Ted Piltzecker is a splendid vibraphonist and ushers a group of Colorado's leading jazz musicians through its paces on Vibes on a Breath, it is his sparkling arrangements that carry the day on this delightful new album. Several members of Piltzecker's septet double, and he makes the most of that versatility, writing charts that ...
If I Only Had a Brain
Album: Vibes on a Breath
By Ted Piltzecker
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:59
Wil Swindler: Space Bugs
by Jack Bowers
Space Bugs is essentially multi-layered yet readily accessible chamber jazz admirably performed by saxophonist/composer Wil Swindler's Colorado-based Eleventet—a finely woven banquet for the ears that was handsomely recorded in May 2022 before an appreciative audience at Denver's Mighty Fine Productions. Gil Evans springs to mind when listening, as do Pete Rugolo and late- career Bob Brookmeyer. ...
Ari's Funhouse
By Ben Markley
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Birdless; Lyric; Lines of Oppression; Bert's Playground; For Tracy; Arrows and Loops; Green Spleen
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