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.

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Chicago: Large Ensemble Dreams

Over the past two decades, bassist and composer Clark Sommers seems to have become ubiquitous. He's worked or still works with Kurt E...

Friday, September 8, 2023

Tribute and Tributaries

In May of 2021, tenor saxophonist and composer James Brandon Lewis released " Jesup Wagon " on Tao Forms (AUM Fidelity). The mus...

Saturday, July 29, 2023

Summer Shorts: Big Band Edition #1

Plenty of Big Band/Large Ensemble have come my way this Summer––here's three of the best! Arranger, conductor, composer, and educator C...

Monday, July 24, 2023

George, By Denny!

D r. Dennis Zeitlin , Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California/San Francisco and practicing Psychiatrist, is also ...

Friday, July 21, 2023

Summer Shorts: Living Music

Pianist and composer François Bourassa has been a mainstay on the Montreal, Quebec, CA, jazz scene for nearly four decades. A graduate o...

Thursday, July 13, 2023

A Voice for Love

Photo courtesy of BCM Every once in a while, you pick a CD out of the stack on your desk, sit down to listen, and get transfixed. I know Nic...

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Solo Trumpeter

Hard to believe it's 16 years since Ambrose Akinmusire won the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. That same year, he won t...

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