Jerron Paxton

Cat & The Hounds

By Colin Hancock

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Panama Limited Blues; Cake Walkin' Babies (From Home); Telephoning Blues; You've Got Everything a Sweet Mama Needs But Me; Gupsy Blues (Intro. Serenade Blues); Elevator Papa,Switchboard Mama; West Indies Blues; Everybody Mess Around; Goin' Crazy With the Blues; Crazy Blues; Carolina Shout; Sweet Man.

Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds Featuring Catherine Russell: Cat & The Hounds

by Pierre Giroux
September 3, 2025

Catherine Russell teams up with Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds for the release Cat & The Hounds, a recording exploring the roots of Black popular music from the early 1920s. Far from simply nostalgic, the project acts as a lively revival of an evolving art form, balancing the syncopated ragtime style and blues-infused improvisations that defined the ...

Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band: Treasury, Volume 2

by Jack Bowers
May 28, 2025

Like any other handiwork you can name, contemporary jazz did not emerge from a vacuum. It sprang forth from a variety of sources, including but not limited to bebop, cool jazz, swing, trad jazz (Dixieland), blues, stride and perhaps the granddaddy of them all, ragtime. Yes, ragtime. Before there was King Oliver or Louis Armstrong, Duke ...

Terry Waldo & the Gotham City Band: Treasury Volume 1

by Jack Bowers
December 27, 2024

Pianist Terry Waldo isn't stuck in the past; he revels in it, as do his eager teammates on Treasury, Vol. 1--the first of three such discourses, according to the album's liner notes--recorded not in jazz's primal era but in May and June 2022 (save for “After You've Gone," recorded in October 2018 with the splendid guest ...

Turtle Bay Records Launches On The Back Porch Video Series Spotlighting NYC Jazz Musicians

March 4, 2023

NYC jazz record label Turtle Bay Records has announced the launch of their new video series, On the Back Porch. The series features eight talented jazz musicians from around the US, with in-depth interviews and their acoustic performances of early jazz music standards. Shot on the back porch at the home of TBR Founder and Executive ...