Brian Krock

Alto saxophonist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Brian Krock began his musical career at an early age. Before discovering his love of jazz music, he studied classical guitar and piano. His first attempts at composing were made in the 7th grade, when he recorded an entire album of original heavy-metal music on a digital recorder. He began seriously studying jazz music in high school, inspiring him to pursue a career dedicated to creating music. A recent recipient of a Master��s Degree in Composition from the Manhattan School of Music, Brian was a student of world-renowned jazz composer Jim McNeely and classical composer Dr

Peter Lenz: Breathe

by Angelo Leonardi
September 10, 2025

Dopo aver espresso ottime doti di strumentista e leader col quintetto Silent Flow e col quartetto Lithium, il batterista austriaco debutta con successo nel campo dell'orchestrazione, scegliendo di operare con tre differenti organici: una big band di 17 elementi (nei brani “Enclouded" ed “Eleanor"), una big band ampliata a un quartetto d'archi (in “Between Lines" e ...

Breathe

By Peter Lenz

Label: ART
Released: 2024
Track listing: Between Lines, Breathe, Von Inneren Grenzen, Enclouded, Eleanor.

Mata Atlantica: Retiro e Ritmo

by Mark Sullivan
January 10, 2023

Retiro e Ritmo is a love letter to Mata Atl?ntica, the coastal rain forest of Brazil, and a call to help preserve and protect this beautiful habitat. The music supports that goal not by quoting or referencing Brazilian music directly, but by building a complex musical ecosystem that evokes it, obliquely creating a sense of place. ...

Retiro e Ritmo

By Mata Atlantica

Label: 7D Media
Released: 2022
Track listing: Candles In Brazil; Quando Como Aranhas; Sempre O Mesmo; Mata; Se Deus Quiser; Um Beijo Selvagem; O Fim Do Mundo.

Mata Atlantica: Retiro e Ritmo

by John Ephland
November 19, 2022

The coastal rainforest of Brazil, otherwise known as Mata Atlantica, and “its beauty and vivacity" are the inspiration for Retiro e Ritmo. It is an album frontloaded with a varied cast of characters from hither and yon. Maybe that casting is behind a project seeking to draw worldwide attention to the ongoing shit-storm that includes not ...

Jared Schonig's Two Takes

by Jerome Wilson
January 17, 2022

Drummer Jared Schonig has tried something different on his first recording as a leader. He has released two albums featuring the same eight original compositions played in two different settings, one with a quintet and one with a big band. The drive and muscular rhythmic pulse of his writing come through in both configurations.

Steven Feifke: Kinetic

by Dan Bilawsky
July 29, 2021

In terms of physics, kinetic energy is described as a force or power which a body or object possesses by virtue of being in motion. With reference to the aptly named debut from the Steven Feifke Big Band, that ideal is fully applicable. Kinetic, recorded in early 2019 and released in April of 2021, capitalizes on ...

Brian Krock: Advocating for True Value in Humanity

by Leo Sidran
October 19, 2020

Musician, bandleader-arranger-composer, and YouTuber Brian Krock on the role of critical analysis in music, the “unintended consequences of the capitalist nature of music education," what it means to improvise as a composer, how reading James Joyce influenced his relationship to listening to and writing music and led him to “create artwork that invites people to put ...

Liddle

By Brian Krock

Label: Outside in Music
Released: 2019
Track listing: Flip; Knuckle Hair; Memphis (Intro); Memphis; Saturnine; Heart Machine; Composition No. 23b; Spondulics; Please Stop.