OUT TODAY! Oran Etkin’s Timbalooloo Releases ‘Finding Friends Far from Home: A Journey With Clara Net’

August 30, 2019New Release, Press Releases

Oran Etkin, an internationally acclaimed jazz clarinetist and composer and founder of the Timbalooloo method of introducing young children to music, is proud to release Finding Friends Far from Home: A Journey with Clara Net. Recorded and filmed on location in Zimbabwe, Turkey, Czech Republic and China with veritable masters of each country’s traditional music, Finding Friends … Read More

EDITORS CHOICE: AllMusic Awards Four Stars to Wallace Roney’s ‘Blue Dawn – Blue Nights’

August 30, 2019Press Reel, Reviews

by Matt Collar, AllMusic  Wallace Roney‘s eighth album for the HighNote label, 2019’s Blue Dawn-Blue Nights, finds the trumpeter collaborating with a cadre of young lions and balancing dusky after-hours warmth and propulsive post-bop modalism. The album comes three years after the similarly expansive A Place in Time, which featured veterans Gary Bartz, Lenny White, and Patrice Rushen. From that … Read More

OUT TODAY! Wallace Roney Leads an Inspiring Group of Contemporary Jazz Trailblazers on ‘Blue Dawn-Blue Nights’

August 30, 2019New Release, Press Releases

HighNote Records is proud to release Blue Dawn – Blue Nights, the new album from stalwart jazz trumpet artist/ bandleader  Wallace Roney. On his twenty-second recording as a leader, the Philadelphia-born musician is thrilled to be leading his band with the next generation jazz innovators: saxophonist Emilio Modeste, pianist Oscar Williams II, bassist Paul Cuffari, and his fifteen year old nephew, drummer Kojo Odu Roney. On Blue … Read More

REVIEW: The Curtis Brothers’ ‘Algorithm’ Reviewed by Jazz Trail

August 30, 2019Press Reel, Reviews

By: Felipe Freitas, Jazz Trail Label: Truth Revolution Records, 2019 Personnel – Donald Harrison: alto saxophone; Brian Lynch: trumpet; Zaccai Curtis: piano; Luques Curtis: bass; Ralph Peterson: drums. Brothers Zaccai and Luques Curtis, pianist and bassist, respectively, have been strong and stable presences on the top jazz scene with participations in widely recognized projects by … Read More

REVIEW: Ben Wolfe’s ‘Fatherhood’ Reviewed by Jazz Trail

August 30, 2019Press Reel, Reviews

By: Filipe Freitas, Jazz Trail Personnel – Immanuel Wilkins: alto saxophone; JD Allen: tenor saxophone; Giveton Gelin: trumpet; Luis Perdomo: piano; Orrin Evans: piano; Ben Wolfe: bass; Donald Edwards: drums. Ben Wolfe, a bassist from Baltimore with a deeply centered sound, pays tribute to his late father on Fatherhood, a collection of ten accessible tunes … Read More