Jerry Pinter

Sam Rivers 100

By Mark Masters

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Fuchsia Swing Song; Cycl8ic Episode; Helix; Parts Of Speech; Point Of Many Returns; Beatrice; Downstairs Blues Upstairs; Calls Of The Wild; Paean; Ellipsis; Luminous Monolith.

Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance!

By Mark Masters

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Was It Here��Is It There?; The One Who Makes the Rain Stop; Croquet Ballet; If One Could Only See; Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance!; The Seventh Day; Insight; Credence.

Was It Here...Is It There?

September 25, 2025

Album: Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance!
By Mark Masters
Label: Capri Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 4:39

Downstairs Blues Upstairs

September 14, 2025

Album: Sam Rivers 100
By Mark Masters
Label: Capri Records
Released: 2025
Duration: 4:11

Mark Masters Ensemble: Sam Rivers 100

by Dan McClenaghan
May 26, 2025

The Mark Masters Ensemble released Porgy and Bess Redefined! (Capri Records) in 2005. The music was taken from the George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward English-language opera, which was first performed in 1935. Masters' take on the classic was brilliantly expressed by the ensemble, who dug into his adventurous charts with freedom mixed with respect for the familiar and ...

Mark Masters Ensemble: Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance!

by Jack Bowers
May 24, 2025

In 2023-24, the celebrated arranger Mark Masters led his superb southern California-based ensemble into studios to record a pair of tribute albums. The first, Sam Rivers 100, was dedicated to the music of the late saxophonist on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth; the second, Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance!, to that of another renowned saxophonist, ...

Mark Masters: Sam Rivers 100

by Jack Bowers
May 23, 2025

Sam Rivers 100 is the first of two homages recorded in 2023-24 by arranger Mark Masters and his blue chip southern California-based ensemble. This one pays tribute to the music of the late saxophonist Sam Rivers on the hundredth anniversary of his birth; the second, Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! salutes the music of tenor saxophonist Billy ...

Mark Masters Ensemble: Sui Generis

by Angelo Leonardi
April 11, 2025

Dopo aver creato nell'ultimo album nuovi arrangiamenti per i classici ellingtoniani dei primi anni quaranta (Masters & Baron Meet Blanton & Webster, Capri Records), il notevole orchestratore californiano riduce l'organico e presenta un repertorio tutto suo. Dalla precedente incisione resta solo il trombettista Tim Hagans che ha il ruolo di principale solista. Il titolo ...

Sui Generis

By Mark Masters Ensemble

Label: Capri Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Doyle Hud's Two Step; The Stoic; Deep Pools; Velocity; Interlude; Waxing and Waning; Peebles; Meet Me at Sal & Angie's; The Hammer.