Adam Alesi

I Fall In Love Too Easily

By Scott Dickinson

Label: Half-Valve Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: I Fall In Love Too Easily

Nimble Digits

By Geoff Stradling

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Blue Note; Brecker Sketch (in memoriam Michael Brecker); Poinciana; Nimble Digits; Baton Noir; Here in Spirit; Don��t Shoot the Messenger; Igua?u; Wrap Party; Habanero.

Geoff Stradling: Nimble Digits

by Jack Bowers
May 18, 2024

Remember the good old days when bandleaders would give a downbeat and their bands would start swinging and keep on doing so until their audiences literally begged for more? Welcome to the past--present tense--courtesy of pianist Geoff Stradling's superb Los Angeles-based StradBand, which swings heartily and with seldom a pause on its radiant and power-laden introductory ...

Blue Note

May 17, 2024

Album: Nimble Digits
By Geoff Stradling
Label: Origin Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 06:13

Searching the Skies

October 28, 2022

Album: Clarinet Vibe
By Stefan Kristinkov
Label: Ulterground Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 05:29

Clarinet Vibe

By Stefan Kristinkov

Label: Ulterground Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Things to See; Summer Forest; Smooth Ride; Last of a Kind; Searching the Skies

Swingin' on a Riff . . . Hangin' by a Thread?

by Jack Bowers
June 14, 2013

Betty and I returned to Albuquerque on Memorial Day after attending Swingin' on a Riff, the latest in a series of marvelous semi-annual events presented by Ken Poston and the Los Angeles Jazz Institute for more than twenty years at venues in and around L.A. This one was held May 23-26 at the Los Angeles Marriott ...

"Lone Wolf" Finds Plenty to Chew On

by Jack Bowers
March 8, 2013

With Betty sidelined by a bad cough, it was up to me to seek out local jazz events in February, and I managed to find a couple of pretty good ones, starting February 7 at the University of New Mexico's Keller Hall where SuperSax New Mexico performed for the third time in Albuquerque. As you may ...