Rick Stone

Old Home/New Home

By Brian Martin

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Old Home; Somewhere to Go; A Ballad for Myself; Lookin' Forward; I Hear a Rhapsody; A.E.C.S.; Letters for Tom; New Home.

The Brian Martin Big Band: Old Home/New Home

by Jack Bowers
August 23, 2025

Brian Martin, who as a working musician wears many hats--trombonist, composer, arranger, educator and band leader among them--has taken those hats from his native Iowa and given them a new mailing address in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. Which is a big deal. Big enough, at least, for Martin to have devoted much of Old Home/New Home, ...

Fernando Huergo: Relentless

by Jack Bowers
September 26, 2024

Argentine-born bassist and composer Fernando Huergo's heavy-duty Massachusetts-based big band delivers the goods on Relentless, a taut and vibrant review of oppression, discrimination, environmental challenges and other social issues, interwoven with Huergo's lively tribute to the saxophonist Ornette Coleman and a charismatic and thought-provoking survey ("La Vida Sigue") on life after the Covid-19 pandemic, with all ...

Darrell Katz & OddSong: Galeanthropolgy

by Jerome Wilson
January 12, 2022

OddSong is a chamber ensemble led by composer Darrell Katz, and distilled from the membership of the larger JCA Orchestra. It features vibraphone, violin, saxophones and voice, on music which veers between art songs and bluesy sax-led jazz tunes. Most of Katz's original compositions on this album feature poems by his late wife, poet Paula Tatarunis, ...

I Never Saw Another Butterfly

By Dana Sandler

Label: Fractamodi Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Dear Pavel; The Butterfly; Dear Franta; Home/The Old House; The Garden; Dear Alena; I��d Like to Go Alone/Ani Ma��amin; Tears; Dear Anonymous; On a Sunny Evening; Birdsong/Butterfly Reprise.

Dana Sandler: I Never Saw Another Butterfly

by C. Michael Bailey
March 29, 2020

Tender is that memory nearly lost. Theresienstadt was a concentration camp and ghetto established by the German Schutzstaffel during World War II in the Bohemian fortress town of Terez��n. Theresienstadt had two purposes: it was a coordinating center ahead of the extermination camps, and an erstwhile retirement community for elderly and prominent Jews intended to mislead ...

Rick Stone (Guitar)

Born: August 13, 1955

20th Century Guitar Magazine‘s Robert Silverstein calls Rick Stone “one of the finest straight-ahead jazz guitarists on the current NYC scene” and JazzReview.com‘s Don Williamson comments on Rick’s “fluid exposition of ideas, mature technique and deep understanding of the material he plays.” From fresh interpretations of standards, to lyrically evocative originals, Rick Stone is an artist with a clear musical vision.  His fluid, full-bodied sound pays homage to the great jazz guitar masters of the past while maintaining a personal style with a contemporary edge.  His latest release “Samba de Novembro” showcases his guitar in a variety of solo, duo, trio and quartet settings along with long-time associates Tardo Hammer (piano) and Yosuke Inoue (bass), and special guest Matt Wilson (drums).  “Samba de Novembro” has received numerous critical accolades and radio airplay making JazzWeek’s Top-50 from September – November of 2004.

Macuco Quintet: Friendly Signs

by Don Phipps
February 22, 2019

The Macuco Quartet's joyful and exuberant Friendly Signs suggests a Brazilian seaside or urban landscape where daylight tropical breezes and palm trees sway over a harbor and waves lap gently along a shore lively with music and dancing. Joel Springer, the composer of all but one of the album's 11 tunes, keeps things on ...

Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra: Down a Rabbit Hole

by Jack Bowers
December 17, 2018

If you must venture Down a Rabbit Hole, as Ayn Inserto has done on the first album as leader of her Jazz Orchestra in a decade, it's comforting to encounter in its depths musicians of the caliber of trombonist John Fedchock, tenor saxophonist George Garzone and trumpeter Sean Jones who add luster and bravado to the ...