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Continue reading →: Mitch Towne: RefugeCROSSTOWNE 1001 (RELEASED APRIL 04, 2025) Guitarist Dave Stryker, baritone saxophonist Frank Basile and trombonist Steve Turre are among several jazz musicians who left their native Omaha, Nebraska, to make a name for themselves in New York City. Others, like organist Mitch Towne, decided to enliven the jazz scene in…
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Continue reading →: Leon Anderson: Live at Snug HarborOUTSIDE IN MUSIC (RELEASED APRIL 4, 2025) For close to 20 years, drummer Leon Anderson has been a regular at New Orleans’ Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro. Most of that time he was serving as a house drummer for New Orleans’ luminaries such as Ellis Marsalis and Victor Goines. With the…
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Continue reading →: Eric Alexander: Chicago to New YorkCELLAR MUSIC (RELEASED APRIL 4, 2025) In 2023, tenor saxophonist turned to the alto sax for his sublime recording with strings — New Beginnings. With Chicago To New York, he adds the soprano sax to his arsenal for two tunes. Not surprisingly, those tunes are associated with John Coltrane —…
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Continue reading →: Chicago Jazz Orchestra/ Bobby Broom: More AmorCHICAGO JAZZ ORCHESTRA RECORDS (RELEASED MARCH 28, 2025) If imitation is the greatest form of flattery, guitarist Wes Montgomery should be flattered by More Amor, A Tribute to Wes Montgomery from the Chicago Jazz Orchestra (CJO) featuring guitarist Bobby Broom. In 1963, Riverside Records released Fusion, the first pairing of…
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Continue reading →: Wadada Leo Smith/. Vijay Iyer: Defiant LifeECM RECORDS (RELEASED MARCH 21, 2025) To paraphrase a line from a Burt Bacharach/Hal David classic, “What the world needs now is … Defiant Life” To counter the crises and chaos that engulfs our world, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and keyboard artist Vijay Iyer offer a series of calming and…
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Continue reading →: The Empress: Square OneCELLAR MUSIC (RELEASED MARCH 21, 2025) Fresh on the heels of the third release from Artemis, an all-female quintet, comes Square One, the debut release from The Empress, a sextet led by four women saxophonists. Alto saxophonist Pureum Jin organized the band to honor jazz icons like Charlie Parker and…
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Continue reading →: Jon Bentley: Go Ahead!CELLAR MUSIC (RELEASED MARCH 21, 2025) Jon Bentley’s Go Ahead! took me back in time; a time when the jazz section of record stores and the catalogues of record companies added a new category to their offerings — soul jazz. Although he was born at the tail end of that…
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Continue reading →: 3 Cohens/WDR Big Band: InteractionANZIC (RELEASED MARCH 14, 2025) Interaction is an appropriate name for the new recording from the 3 Cohens and the WDR Big Band. There is the intuitive interaction between the three Cohen siblings — Anat on clarinet, Avishai on trumpet and Yuval on soprano sax. There is the international interaction…
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Continue reading →: Rodney Jordan: Memphis BlueBAXTER MUSIC 1004 (RELEASED MARCH 14, 2025) In 2018, the city of Memphis adopted the slogan “Home of Blues, Soul and Rock & Roll.”Did they forget jazz? After all, Memphis boasts a vibrant jazz history thanks Memphians such as Lil Hardin Armstrong, Booker Little, Phineas Newborn and Charles Lloyd to…
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Continue reading →: Caili O’ Doherty: Bluer Than BlueOUTSIDE IN MUSIC (RELEASED MARCH 7, 2025) Like an archeologist unearthing artifacts from an ancient civilization, pianist Caili O’Doherty has discovered treasures from an earlier era of jazz. O’Doherty, who is on a mission to celebrate, preserve and expand the achievements of the unsung women of jazz, rediscovered the music…
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I started reading Cadence in the early 1980s. Since that time, I have come to respect editor and jazz critic Robert Rusch for his intelligent, succinct and unbiased reviews. Over the past twenty years, it has been my pleasure to get to know Robert and his family, making frequent trips from our home in Iowa to New York’s North Country. Several years ago, I was honored to be asked to help edit Robert’s Papatamus column.
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