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Tenor Madness

By Ryan Middagh

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Wiley Roots; Waiter, Make Mine Blues; Tenor Madness; Cry Me a River; This Time the Dream��s on Me; Wired.

Just Have Something to Say

By Tamara Bodie

Label: June-boy Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: 1. Colors of Spring 2. Tea 3. Pure Delight (Quincy Jones Tribute) 4. Just Have Something to Say 5. Undefined 6. Memories of You 7. I'll Fly Away

The Sofia Goodman Group: Receptive

by Jack Bowers
February 19, 2025

Receptive is the third album as leader of the Sofia Goodman Group by Nashville, Tennessee-based drummer and composer Goodman, following 2018's Myriad of Flowers and 2023's Secrets of the Shore, both on Joyous Records. As on those earlier recordings, Goodman shows her compositional skills with a series of mostly meditative and personal themes designed to entice ...

Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra: Tenor Madness

by Jack Bowers
February 9, 2025

Nashville-based composer, arranger and saxophonist Ryan Middagh salutes apostles of the mid-range wind instrument on Tenor Madness, his second recording as leader of the Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra. Even so, there are no tenor solos after the first three of the album's half-dozen numbers, on which tenors Don Aliquo and Jeff Coffin ("Wiley Roots"), Aliquo again ...

Receptive

By Sofia Goodman

Label: Joyous Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Trust, Allow, Channel, The Space Within, Socket, Presence, Gratitude, Receptive

Loft Glow

By John Alvey

Label: Jazz Music City
Released: 2024
Track listing: Azure; Winslow Nocturne; Baby Man; Terminal 1; June 23; Blues for D.P.

John Alvey: Loft Glow

by Chris May
August 11, 2024

Such is the proliferation of albums which in the 2020s are taking jazz in new and exciting directions--see AAJ's Best Jazz Albums of 2024: All-Star Break Edition round-up here--that it is easy to pass over albums which have their feet firmly planted in the tradition, and which show no ambition to redefine it, but which are ...