The Jon Crowley Quintet | Connections

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Jazz, Trumpet

Connections is the debut album from forward-thinking trumpeter and composer Jon Crowley. The Jon Crowley Quintet explores and experiments with form, harmony and improvisation without forgetting the real meaning of music; the expressing of emotion. ~ CDBaby

The Jon Crowley Quintet | Connections – [Jon Crowley Music, 2009]

Jon Crowley, Connections

Forward-thinking trumpeter and composer, Jon Crowley was born in Malvern PA, a suburb of Philadelphia, in 1982. He began studying the trumpet at age six with Elin Frazier, a student of Carmine Caruso. While in high school he developed an interest in Jazz and began attending local jam sessions and sitting in with various musicians around Philadelphia. Jon spent the next four years attending Muhlenberg College, studying Jazz with Charles Fambrough and John Swana. After Graduating with his B.A. in Music, Jon went straight to New York City, where he attended NYU, graduating in the Spring of ’07; receiving his Masters in Jazz Performance and Composition. While at NYU, Jon studied with Laurie Frink, Kenny Werner, Ralph Alessi, George Garzone, Brian Lynch, Joe Lovano, Don Friedman and Dave Pietro. Jon has played with Charles Fambrough, John Scofield, Lenny Pickett, Chris Potter, Ralph Alessi, Joe Lovano, and Don Friedman, and has performed around New York City at venues such as The BlueNote, 55 Bar and Lincoln Center. Since graduating, he can be seen performing around New York City and the Northeast both as a sideman and with his own groups. Jon has also just released his first CD; Connections.

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Acclaimed Guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel Gets Intimate With Standards Trio

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Guitar, Jazz, Mainstream-Traditional Jazz

Reflections On The Wommusic Label

Trio session with bassist Eric Revis and drummer Eric Harland set for release October 27

“There’s this kind of fluidity and architecture in the lines that he plays that I don’t think I’ve heard anybody else do. There’s a mystery in it to me. It’s not obviously derived from some other player. He’s really developed his own language with the musical information and physically the way he’s playing the instrument.” – Bill Frisell

“Kurt Rosenwinkel is rightfully most celebrated for being a 21-century innovator of new music,” begins the liner notes by Ethan Iverson for Rosenwinkel’s latest album (his eighth as leader) titled, Standards Trio: Reflections. “This album of standards offers a clear view of Kurt as a jazz guru.”

A onetime sideman in Gary Burton & Joe Henderson’s bands, Rosenwinkel has released a string of some of the most potent and original recordings of the last decade. On Standards Trio: Reflections, the highly anticipated followup to 2007’s dynamic The Remedy: Live at the Village Vanguard, he delves into the harmonic fabric of several beautiful standards in an intimate trio setting, accompanied by bassist Eric Revis (a longtime member of the Branford Marsalis Quartet) and drummer Eric Harland (a member of the Charles Lloyd Quartet and the SFJAZZ Collective).

Joe Henderson | Page One

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African American, Bebop, Jazz, Saxophone

Joe Henderson | Page One – [Blue Note Records, 1963]

Joe Henderson, Page One

This 1963 session was Henderson’s debut as a leader, and it introduced a strikingly individualistic tenor saxophonist, with a distinctively muscular sound and approach, as well as a talent for finding a personal route through the dominant tenor styles of Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane. At the time of the session, Henderson worked regularly in a quintet with the veteran trumpeter Kenny Dorham, and the two enjoyed a special chemistry apparent on several Blue Note recordings under their individual names. One unusual facet is the hard-bop take on the then emerging bossa nova, apparent in the first recording of Dorham’s now standard “Blue Bossa,” on which Henderson’s thoughtful construction is apparent, and the saxophonist’s own coiling Latin tune, “Recorda Me.” Pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Butch Warren, and drummer Pete LaRoca provide more than solid support for a date that’s as often reflective as it is forceful. —Stuart Broomer

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Aaron Choulai Trio | Ranu

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Jazz, Piano, Radiohead

Aaron Choulai Trio | Ranu – [Sunny Side Records, 2009]

Aaron Choulai Trio, Ranu

Choulai’s new recording “Ranu” illustrates the depth of his talent and that of his Australia based trio that includes bassist Sam Anning and either drummer Ben Vanderwal or Rory Mcdugall. Originally from Papua New Guinea, Choulai has called Australia, New York City and Japan home.

Only in his mid- twenties, he has performed and recorded with some of New York’s greatest musicians. “Ranu” finds Choulai in a pared down setting where the listener can truly appreciate his talent and artistic ambition. The recording includes four modern classics, among them, pieces by Neil Young and Radiohead.

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