Jason Brown

In demand drummer, Jason Brown, has been a driving force behind major artists since the early days of his career. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory, Ohio; Brown learned his trade under the tutelage of Billy Hart.For seven years he toured and recorded with Grammy nominated vocalist & composer, Carmen Lundy; with Pat Martino he appeared at major festivals worldwide, such as Jarasum International Jazz Festival and Rochester Jazz Festival. He has also worked with renowned artists such as Lizz Wright, Cedar Walton, Nicholas Payton, Wayne Escoffery and Kurt Rosenwinkel. Now a key member of Amina Figarova��s Sextet, Jason Brown has performed at the Joy of Jazz Festival in Johannesburg and major venues throughout Europe and the USA

Time Has Changed

By Win Pongsakorn

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Man in the Mirror; Pensri; Hummingbirds at Balata Garden; Time Has Changed; Caipirinha; Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow; You��re Getting to Be a Habit with Me; Theme for Ernie; Imagination; Pearls.

Win Pongsakorn: Time Has Changed

by Jack Bowers
May 6, 2025

Time Has Changed is the second recording as leader by trumpeter Win Pongsakorn who was born in Bangkok, Thailand, but has been firmly wedded to American-style contemporary jazz since he started playing trumpet at age fourteen in 2011. As on his debut album, Yes, It Is! (Cellar Music, 2020), Pongsakorn is backed by a stellar rhythm ...

Litchfield Jazz Festival 2023

by Paul Reynolds
August 6, 2023

Litchfield Jazz Festival The Frederick Gunn School Washington CT July 28 to July 30, 2023 It's fitting that a festival set in a location as venerable-sounding as the Litchfield Hills deeply respects tradition. That commitment starts with the music styles it presents. While the Litchfield Jazz Festival isn't averse to going ...

Kids' Time

By Dmitry Baevsky

Label: Fresh Sound New Talent
Released: 2022
Track listing: Mr H.; Imintagante; Kids' Time; Minor Delay; Time Flies; Deep In A Dream; Morningside Waltz; Rollin'; MTA; Soy Califa; The End; Don't Blame Me.

Ibeji

By Xhosa Cole

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Doo-shima; C—L—A—V-E—; Andy's Shuffle; Jazz is About; Hear The; Dance of Ancestra; Masks-Rituals-Ancestors; Our Search For; Mark Skit #1; IG Live 20-04-2021; Native Tongues; CDC; Beat-9.wav; Double Displacement; Mark Skit #2; All Roads; AAC; Alhamdulilah; Ibeji.

Dmitry Baevsky: Kids' Time

by David A. Orthmann
December 29, 2022

Dmitry Baevsky is a jazzman in his middle years, a period when many players consolidate youthful influences and put their stamp on the rarefied practices of the mid- to-late 20th century. The alto saxophonist has recorded for several labels, and travels widely as a leader and sideman; to his credit, he continues to give the impression ...

Xhosa Cole: Ibeji

by Karl Ackermann
November 13, 2022

Few places on the global jazz scene are enjoying the enthusiastic resurgence of the genre more than the UK. Names that are becoming more familiar—Binker Golding, Nubya Garcia, Idris Rahman, Shabaka Hutchings and others—have triggered something of a youth movement. Emerging in that group is yet another top-notch saxophonist, Xhosa Cole. Cole's sophomore release, Ibeji is ...

Pianist/Composer Jesse Fischer Announces West Coast And London Dates

March 16, 2022

Brooklyn-based pianist to follow up successful Jazz Road tour of the Midwest in 2021 with three West Coast dates and a London headline debut, performing music from Resilience (2020) and Flipped II (2018). Performance dates will coincide with the release of em>Resilience (Recharged), a newly remixed and reimagined version of the title track of Resilience, with ...

Dream Band

By Alex Hitchcock

Label: Fresh Sound New Talent
Released: 2021
Track listing: Wolf and Nina; Yeshaya; Intro; To Love Itself; Outro. FSTL; Move 37; Azalea; Embers; Overcome Any Obstacle with a Horse; Simulacra; And Then.