Joey Alexander, the Grammy-nominated jazz pianist, composer and bandleader releases his major label debut album "WARNA" (Verve Records).   WARNA captures the astonishing melodic gift and natural aptitude for spontaneous collaboration that the gifted pianist has quickly developed and showcases Alexander's musical prowess as he stylistically and seamlessly incorporates his influences from Gospel, Latin music and more.  [...]

Improvising tuba player Ralph Hepola performs original music with world-class teammates. Spectrum Recordings 180820 Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in the United States, Ralph Hepola studied piano before starting on the tuba at age twelve. At seventeen, he was chosen to play before the British Royal Family in the Manitoba All-Province Band at Brandon University [...]

As long as the sound of Jazz Lives, as long as jazz musicians jam, two words will always be a part of the scene…  John Coltrane. In 1964 Coltrane walked into Van Gelder Studios in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey and recorded this never-heard recording, “Blue World.” Approached by Quebecois filmmaker, Gilles Groulx a dedicated fan, John [...]

Alex Bird and The Jazz Mavericks: Debut Single "The Way She Moves" TORONTO, ONTARIO – Alex Bird has been turning heads across the Toronto Jazz scene and his debut single THE WAY SHE MOVES will soon be turning heads across the continent. This song swings. The video, directed by one of the top up and [...]

Bass Guitar Impresario, Al Turner, affectionately called “The Burner” returns with his latest record “This Is”, his fifth solo recording! Self-produced, “THIS Is” features upbeat, joyful and melodic tunes and like all of Al's recordings, the groove is the central theme throughout. Stellar musicians including, Marlon McClain, Tom Braxton, Ron Otis, Dana Davis, Darryl Wakefield, [...]

That's a Computer (October 19, 2018 on Outside in Music) takes its title from a comment made by one of Pino's professors at the Juilliard School. The teacher, himself a respected instrumentalist and revered jazz veteran, dismissed the work of one of Pino's idols with those three sneering words. At least it put the young [...]

Of Certain Elements, the third album from acclaimed jazz vocalist Karla Harris, it can be said that this is a place where lush contemporary comes alongside deft acoustic mainstream jazz to create the potent signature sound of this collection. Intriguingly mystical and invitingly earthy, with an aural quality all its own, the record’s tunes of [...]