Pianist Ben Winkelman Filters Diverse Sounds Through a Jazz Perspective on his Fifth Album, Balance Due Out March 15th On OA2 Records OA2 Records is proud to announce the March 15th release of Balance, the fifth album from award-winning jazz pianist and composer Ben Winkelman. Recorded at Sear Sound studios in New York with drummer … Read More
Victor L. Schermer, All About Jazz Prolific saxophonist, composer, band leader, and educator Dave Liebman is a living legend, an NEA Jazz Master who has been making waves since the 1970s and never stops growing, learning, and discovering. His autobiography, What It Is (Scarecrow Press, 2012, with Lewis Porter) is an honest probing of his more than half century experience … Read More
Dave Sumner, Bandcamp Greg Ward Presents Rogue Parade Stomping Off From Greenwood There’s a menacing presence to the new one from Greg Ward. It gets in your face, and it chooses strength over subtlety more often than not. That’s what commands attention. But the slithery tempos and electronic idiosyncrasies are the sources of the album’s … Read More
DanMichael Reyes, Revive Music Known as one of the most reliable musicians to man the low-end, Dezron Douglas has made a career of providing the root for some of the most swinging modern music. Mentored by masters like Jackie McLean, Michael Carvin, and Pharoah Sanders, Douglas’ connection with music will always be swing. “I feel like no matter what groove, time … Read More
Ron Schepper, Textura For his latest album, Andy Milne could have assembled a crew of likeminded colleagues and recorded a blowing session of originals and covers. Instead, the pianist, composer, and Dapp Theory bandleader chose to do something a whole lot more ambitious and original: work with the diagnostic principles of homeopathic healing to distill into musical … Read More
David Liebman is Back on The Corner with On The Corner Live: The Music Of Miles Davis Featuring Jeff Coffin, Victor Wooten, Chester Thompson, Chris Walters and James DaSilva Due Out 3.1.19 on Ear Up Records Pre-order here. Ear Up Records is proud to announce the March 1, 2019 release of On The Corner Live: … Read More
Pianist Andy Milne Receives Juno Award Nomination and Announces Spring Tour The Seasons of Being is nominated for Best Group Jazz Album Andy Milne’s Unison Trio Will Appear in NY, DC, Santa Fe, Albuquerque, LA, Cleveland, Ann Arbor January 29, 2019 — Internationally acclaimed pianist and composer Andy Milne has received a 2019 Juno Nomination for … Read More
Kevin Coultas, In On The Corner Everyone already knows that Greg Ward is one of the premier musicians working in 2019 and his 2016 record Touch My Beloved’s Thought is a stone cold masterpiece. Well, he and his group of Chicago’s finest, Rogue Parade, are back at it and in a big way. For Stomping Off From Greenwood, … Read More
Phil Freeman, Stereogum Dezron Douglas, Black Lion (Independent/Self-Released) Bassist Dezron Douglas has been a first-call player on the New York scene for years, playing in straightahead hard bop contexts as well as more adventurous, forward-looking groups. He appeared most recently on Makaya McCraven’s Universal Beings, which was Stereogum’s #1 jazz album of 2018. This six-track digital-only EP, which … Read More
