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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 ...

Just Found Joy

By Ricky Alexander

Label: Turtle Bay Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: People Will Say We��re in Love, Sweet Lorraine, King Porter Stomp, Promenade, It Had to Be You, Just One of Those Things, High Society, Fine and Dandy, Don��t Blame Me, Spring Is Here, The Touch of Your Lips, Rubber Plant Rag.

Swingin' Uptown

By Eyal Vilner

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Chicken an�� Dumplings; Bumpy Tour Bus; Swingin�� Uptown; Tell Me Pretty Baby; I Want Coffee; Is You Is or Is You Ain��t; Tea for Two; Lobby Call Blues; Blue Skies; Don��t You Feel My Leg; I Love the Rhythm in a Riff; I Don��t Want to Be Kissed (By Anyone Else But You); Swing Brother Swing; Coffee Bean Stomp Jubilee; Hellzapoppin��; Afternoon at Smalls.

Eyal Vilner Big Band: Swingin' Uptown

by Jack Bowers
September 6, 2024

Even though he was born and raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, composer, saxophonist and educator Eyal Vilner is well-versed in the origins and history of American jazz, especially as they pertain to the Swing Era, big bands and the largely black jazz experience in Harlem and elsewhere. Those interests converge on Swingin' Uptown, on which Vilner's ...

Ricky Alexander: Just Found Joy

by Nicholas F. Mondello
June 18, 2024

The odd picture on the cover of Ricky Alexander's Just Found Joy is neither a takeaway from The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (Capitol, 1966) album cover, nor a play on the GOAT acronym. Actually, the album art was photographed at the Store Barns Farm in Downstate New York. This is a superb album of a dozen ...

The Jam!

By Eyal Vilner

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: I��m Just a Lucky So and So; Chabichou; Another Time; The Jam; Will You Be My Quarantine?; Monday Stroll; Chad��s Delight; Hard Hearted Hannah; T��aint What You Do; Call Me Tomorrow, I Come Next Week; After the Lights Go Down Low; Tap Tap Tap; Belleville; Jumpin�� at the Woodside.