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Album: Stanco's Time
By Anthony Stanco
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 05:21
The Music of Gregg Hill
Label: Cold Plunge Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Come on Down; Elden’s Bop; Go Figure!; I Want to Live; Inside Straight; Loisiana; Never Forget;
Ristra! Ristra!; Sunny Daze; Thank You Notes.
TechnoCats: The Music of Gregg Hill
by Jack Bowers
The TechnoCats are a group of five talented young musicians, each of whom has ties to Michigan State University in East Lansing, as does composer (and co-producer) Gregg Hill, whose music the TechnoCats perform on this delightful album. One of the quintet's more diverting features is that the only horn is Chris Glassman's bass trombone; another ...
Wayne Escoffery: Still Forging Ahead
by R.J. DeLuke
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 ...
Joe Chambers: Moving Pictures Orchestra: Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
by John Kelman
It's one thing to have an established `place in the jazz pantheon, another to continue redefining that position, long after others might be content to rest on their laurels. Joe Chambers' work behind the drum kit with artists including Andrew Hill, Bobby Hutcherson, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Mingus, and McCoy Tyner has already ensured a ...
Steve Davis: Correlations
by C. Andrew Hovan
Surely it must be considered a milestone to chalk up Correlations as Steve Davis' 20th session as a leader. Just contemplate how much the world has changed since the trombonist started turning heads as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers back at the start of the '90s. The record business in particular occupies a vastly ...
Jimmy Greene: Gifts and Givers
by C. Andrew Hovan
The two-tenor battle is not a new idea, with iconic pairings from the jazz pantheon running the gamut from Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray to Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin. In more recent times, Eric Alexander and Grant Stewart have fueled the fire with their own incendiary adventures as heard on the current albums Wailin' ...
In the Valley
By Todd Marcus
Label: Stricker Street Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Horus (intro) (0:37)
Horus (8:36)
The Hive (9:47)
Cairo Street Ride (8:00)
Final Days (8:25)
In the Valley (10:01)
Each Step
Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Each Step; Just One of Those Things; The More I See You; Milestones; What Now?; These Are the Things
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Throw Away; Change; Grantstand; Grant's Groove.
New Releases Plus Part 2 Of Selections From Terri Lyne Carrington's Book New Standards Vol. 1 Highlighting Women Composers
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast presents new releases from vocalists Tia Brazda, Aimée Allen, The Manhattan Transfer, Kristan Berardi, Claudia Acuna and pianist Amina Figarova, with birthday shoutouts to Emma Larsson, Tania Grubbs and Amy Cervini, among others. Also Part 2 of selections from Terri Lyne Carrington's latest New Standards Vol. 1 project featuring 101 Lead Sheets composed by ...
