Step Tempest

Creative music should challenge us, make us think and move us forward. Music can make one's life better and fuller, one of life's greatest pleasures.

Monday, September 27, 2021

Quintet & Big Band with Jared Schonig Leading!

Drummer and composer Jared Schonig is the exemplar of the 21st Century musician. Not only does he write music but he also plays in Broadw...

Friday, September 24, 2021

Delight-filled Saxophone, Piano, & Bass

Canadian-born (Montreal, Quebec) Chet Doxas plays tenor saxophone, composes, plays in bands with his drummer brother Jim, and has co-lead...

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Just Like That

Photo: NEA Henry Threadgill , composer, arranger, saxophonist, flutist, 2021 NEA Jazz Master, and Pulitzer Prize winner (2016), and bandlead...

Saturday, September 18, 2021

Masters at Play + A Pleasing Surprise

Over the past seven years, saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Dave Liebman has been touring and recording with his Expansions quintet. The gro...

Saturday, September 11, 2021

Quiet Voices and Endless Pathways

As I write this, it's nine months since pianist, educator, and composer Frank Kimbrough passed. In that time, he has been memorializ...

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

August Recommendations

Zacc Harris is a MInneapolis, MN-based guitarist and composer who is active as a leader, co-leader (Atlantic Quartet), sideman, and educato...

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Large Ensemble: Shapes, Sounds, & Stories

Chuck Owen has had a long career as a jazz educator, composer, and arranger. In 1981, Owen left California where he had been attending sch...

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