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Esperanza Spalding’s Chamber Music Society
July 9, 2010Video for Esperanza Spalding’s much-anticipated Chamber Music Society release, due out on August 17th.
Rufus Reid
July 9, 2010Out Front (Motema Records) Veteran bassist Rufus Reid’s latest is not only a showcase for his versatility and virtuosity, but the work of an incredible trio of artists, that feels as good as it sounds. Reid is ...
Nnenna Freelon
July 6, 2010Homefree (Concord Records) For her latest release, Homefree, Nnenna Freelon decided to stay at home, recording the project at Sound Pure Studios in Durham, North Carolina, where she’s lived for the past 28 ...
Myron Walden
July 2, 2010What We Share (Demi Sound Records) Just when you thought jazz saxophonists of the modern day were knockoffs of the Coltrane or Sonny Rollins records they’ve listened to, Myron Walden comes along. The 37-year ...
Petra van Nuis & Andy Brown
June 29, 2010Far Away Places (String Damper Records) In addition to being husband and wife, Chicago-based Petra Van Nuis and Andy Brown are an engaging guitar-vocal duo. Van Nuis is the vocalist, while Brown handles the guitar ...
Christian Scott
June 25, 2010Yesterday You Said Tomorrow (Concord Records) When you hear trumpeter Christian Scott, you’re hearing a young musician who has one foot planted in the history of jazz and the other in the infinite ...
John Pizzarelli
June 22, 2010Rockin’ In Rhythm (Telarc Records) Coming off of a tribute recording to composer Richard Rodgers, the ever-ambitious guitarist/vocalist John Pizzarelli pays musical homage to the great Duke Ellington. On ...
Darryl Harper
June 18, 2010Stories In Real Time (Hipnotic Records) When was the last time you heard a recording featuring four clarinets not playing in unison, backed by a rhythm section along with a spoken word vocalist and it all worked ...
Claudio Roditi
June 15, 2010Simpatico (Resonance Records) Trumpet veteran Claudio Roditi has never considered himself a composer, but as he explains, “a trumpet player who needed to write–when I wasn’t playing that ...
Pharez Whitted
May 1, 2010Transient Journey (Owl Studios) Transient Journey is the first recording from Pharez Whitted in fourteen years. In that time, the trumpet player made a number of changes, including moving from Ohio to the Chicago ...