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The 14 Jazz Orchestra: Islands

by Jack Bowers
August 12, 2023

The music on these Islands is almost as sizzling as the summer weather in sun-drenched Miami, thanks to composer/arranger Dan Bonsanti's Florida-based, world-class The 14 Jazz Orchestra, whose fourth album provides yet another textbook lesson in the art of colorful and swinging big-band rhetoric. Bonsanti formed the ensemble as a rehearsal band in ...

Article: Album Review

Count Basie: Late Night Basie

Read "Late Night Basie" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
July 28, 2023

Late Night Basie: great idea. Three tracks by the Basie Orchestra and four by other assorted groups: not-so-great idea. Enlisting Jazzmeia Horn to scat on the Basie classic “One O'Clock Jump": rather pointless. Compressing seven numbers (eight, actually) into a meager twenty-four--or perhaps more like twenty-eight--minutes (including a “bonus" track): head-scratching. Mind you, the other ensembles ...

Article: Play This!

Band Of Other Brothers: Babko

by Mike Jacobs
June 16, 2023

2016's Band of Other Brothers debut album City Of Cranes may have flown under many a radar but it's lineup alone--Jeff Babko, Will Lee, Jeff Coffin, Nir Felder and Keith Carlock--demanded attention from those that spotted it. And with tunes like the thrilling Felder showcase “Babko," it showed the supergroup was no jackelope. ...

Article: Liner Notes

Steve Khan: Arrows

by AAJ Staff
January 25, 2023

By Steve Khan With The Blue Man not selling as well as Tightrope, Dr. George Butler requested that I have a co-producer for the next CD. I was lucky to be able to land the engineering / production talents of my old and dear friend, Elliot Scheiner. Elliot and I had recorded together on countless sessions, ...

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What is Hip?

By Terry Wollman

Label: Mango Eater MUSIC
Released: 2022
Track listing: WHAT IS HIP?

Article: SoCal Jazz

The Weckl/Kennedy Project: Live at The Catalina Jazz Club

by Jim Worsley
June 17, 2022

If you are a fan of fusion, you likely know that Tom Kennedy and Dave Weckl started playing together in their early teens. Recently, Weckl reminisced about that glorious time in their lives, while on stage at the Catalina Jazz Club in Hollywood. Yes, it was the Weckl/Kennedy Project playing the finale of a three-night engagement. ...

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Just Chillin

By Mike Levine

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Let's Do It; Gliding; Reflection; Miami; Just Chillin; I Found You; Summer; Soul Gumbo; Eleanor Rigby; Star Gazing; Simple Samba; Nice and Easy; On Ramp.

Article: Chats with Cats

The Instrument Maker: Roger Sadowsky

by B.D. Lenz
June 14, 2021

Continuing in my Chats with Cats articles I wanted to speak with an instrument maker. We often forget how important these artisans are to the tone and timbre of the music itself. Being a guitarist, I was excited to speak with Roger Sadowsky, a New York City based guitar and bass maker who has made instruments ...

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Write Out Your Head

By Wayne Krantz

Label: Abstract Logix
Released: 2020
Track listing: Kulturny; Well Spoken Astronaut; Xandea; High 70s; Write Out Your Head; Ride; Hello World; Magic 44.

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Snapdragon

By Oz Noy

Label: Abstract Logix
Released: 2020
Track listing: Looni Tooni; Tired But Wired; Outer Look; She's Not There; Boom, Boo, Boom; Snapdragon; Evidence; Groovin' Grant; Bemsha Swing (alternate take).