Friday, January 26, 2024

Confluence of the Basses

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 Here we have three relatively new releases from three fine bassists and songwriters. This is powerful music that jumps out of the speakers ...
Thursday, January 4, 2024

The Music That Made 2023 Special (Pt 2) – Let's Hear it for the Ladies

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 My original plan was not to isolate the recordings made by women into a separate post but these albums are so good that I could not resist....
Wednesday, January 3, 2024

The Music that Made 2023 Special (Part 1)

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 Last year was, overall, a great year for music and a stressful one for this writer. No need to go into details as my paucity of postings si...
Monday, December 18, 2023

Gift Ideas of the Digital Variety

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Not a very clever headline but both these new recordings are worth sharing with friends and fans of creative music! Photo: Clara Pereira Tru...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

Thanksgiving Day 2024; Two Alto sax-Piano duos + One Quartet

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  Been absent from this blog for two months but not for a lack of great new albums but more so for being much too busy. Teaching coillege fr...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

Chicago: Large Ensemble Dreams

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  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

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