Max Seigel

Points In Time

By John Yao

Label: See Tao Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: Upside; Not Even Close; Triceratops Blues; First Step; The Other Way; Early Morning Walk; Song For Nolan; Finger Painting.

Not Even Close

August 12, 2025

Album: Points In Time
By John Yao
Label: See Tao Recordings
Released: 2025
Duration: 8:16

John Yao and His 17 Piece Instrument: Points In Time

by Jack Bowers
August 4, 2025

The insuperable spirit of swinging big-band jazz is everywhere apparent on Points in Time, the seventh recording by New York-based composer, arranger and trombonist John Yao, and the second with his marvelous 17-Piece Instrument, a decade after its well-received debut, Flip-Flop. (See Tao, 2015). As on that earlier album, the playlist consists of ...

Exuberance

By Christopher Zuar

Label: Tonal Conversations
Released: 2024
Track listing: In Winter Blooms; Moments in Between; Communion; Simple Machines; Before Dawn; Certainty; Exuberance.

Elegy for Thelonious

By Frank Carlberg

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Spooky Rift We Pat; Out of Steam; Wanting More; Elegy for Thelonious; Scallop��s Scallop; Wrinkle on Trinkle; Brake Tune.

In Winter Blooms

August 10, 2024

Album: Exuberance
By Christopher Zuar
Label: Tonal Conversations
Released: 2024
Duration: 8:15

New Life

By Peter Leitch

Label: Jazz House
Released: 2021
Track listing: Disc 1��Mood for Max (for Dr. Maxim Kreditor); Portrait of Sylvia; Sorta, Kinda; Monk��s Circle; Round Midnight; Penumbra; Brilliant Blue, Twilight Blue; Fulton Street Suite. Disc 2��Exhilaration; Elevanses; Clifford Jordan; Ballad for Charles Davis; The Minister��s Son; Spring Is Here; Back Story; Tutwiler 2001; The Long Walk Home.

Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra: Portraits and Places

by Jack Bowers
March 31, 2016

Scott Reeves formed his splendid New York-based orchestra eight years ago, in 2008, and while Portraits and Places marks its recorded debut, Reeves spent a number of years before that sharpening his composing and arranging skills at the highly regarded BMI Jazz Composers Workshop where he received tutelage and counsel from Manny Albam, Mike Abene, Jim ...

Eyal Vilner Big Band: Almost Sunrise

by Jack Bowers
March 30, 2015

Suddenly, it seems, the state of Israel has become a focal point and incubator for contemporary jazz. A new wave of world-class musicians led by the three Cohens (not to be confused with Broadway's three Cohans) has crossed the ocean to plant the Israeli flag firmly in the midst of what was once considered an unassailable ...