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Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans)

By Jim Witzel

Label: Joplin & Sweeney
Released: 2025
Track listing: Beautiful Love; How My Heart Sings; Falling Grace; Solar; Very Early; Israel; Some Other Time; Nardis; Peri��s Scope.

Breakthrough

By Erik Jekabson

Label: Wide Hive Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Jane Wants to Tell You Something (Pt. 1); Jane Wants to Tell You Something (Pt. 2); The Whisperer; A Centered Vibe; Speedway Meadow; Sun on the Keys; Above the Clouds; El Don; Washington as a Surveyor; Into the Jungle (Pt. 1); Into the Jungle (Pt. 2); Into the Jungle (Pt. 3); Sunset on the Keys

Jim Witzel Quartet: Very Early (Remembering Bill Evans)

by Troy Dostert
September 6, 2025

While tributes to pianist Bill Evans have certainly not been in short supply over the years, he has unsurprisingly been given far more attention by pianists than from other instrumentalists. Efforts from guitarists have been particularly rare. There are some noteworthy exceptions: John McLaughlin took a stab at it in 1993 with Time Remembered (Verve) alongside ...

For Every Living Thing

By Ed Johnson

Label: Cumulus
Released: 2023
Track listing: Little Bai?o; No Stopping The Beat (New Day Rising); For Every Living Thing; Coral Sea; Where Or When; Balancing; Out Of Time; Love As One; Lua Soberana; Meu Pais

Breaking Through Gently

By Jim Witzel

Label: Joplin & Sweeney Music Company
Released: 2024
Track listing: My Compass; Firefly Waltz; The Celebration; Abjohn; Hello My Friend; The Little Dragon; Old Friends; Breaking Through Gently.

For Every Living Thing

October 22, 2024

Album: For Every Living Thing
By Ed Johnson
Label: Cumulus
Released: 2023
Duration: 06:01

Jim Witzel Quartet: Breaking Through Gently

by Pierre Giroux
October 17, 2024

Offering a refined exploration of jazz guitar, Jim Witzel's release Breaking Through Gently balances accessibility with a modern, lyrical edge. Accompanied by a seasoned trio of pianist Phil Aaron, bassist Dan Feiszli and drummer Jason Lewis, Witzel presents a collection consisting primarily of his original works, along with some by Aaron and a reimagining of a ...

Shaw's Groove

By Jason Keiser

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Organ Grinder; Zoltan; The Moontrane; Katerina Ballerina; Blues for Woody; Obsequious; Jean Marie; Shaw's Groove.

Jason Keiser: Shaw's Groove

by Jack Bowers
May 24, 2023

The “Shaw" in guitarist Jason Keiser's album Shaw's Groove is the late great Woody Shaw, one of the more innovative and influential jazz trumpeters of the twentieth century. Even though he lived only forty-four years (he died in May 1989), Shaw was an important role model whose sweeping influence remains strong to this day, both as ...