Ryan Dragon

Stories

By Mina Choi

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Dark Side Light Side; Secret Garden; Bolivia; Paddle Through the Lake; You're Still Here (in memory of Sewol ferry); All About Your Cries and Kisses; Helen's Song.

Mina Choi: Stories

by Jack Bowers
June 2, 2025

Who could have guessed that the next wave of world-class big-band composers and arrangers would wash ashore in the U.S. after starting its journey in faraway Asia? In 2024 alone, many composers with roots in the Far East have nourished their credentials with impressive and well- received big-band recordings. Those whose names spring to mind include ...

Secret Garden

April 14, 2025

Album: Stories
By Mina Choi
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Duration: 08:29

Cherokee

March 29, 2025

Album: My Universe
By Maria Puga Lareo
Label: My Keter Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 4:32

Jazz Is My Lifestyle

By Gunhild Carling

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Jazz is my Lifestyle; Shaking the Bangkok; I Desire You; Your Smile Makes the Difference; Fire Alarm; Chanson; Mardi Gras; Blues; Cosmic Drive; Winter's Day; You Are The Music; I'll Wait For You In San Francisco.

My Universe

By Maria Puga Lareo

Label: My Keter Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Make Someone Happy; The Song Is You; Despois De Tanto Tempo (intro); Depois de Tanto Tempo; Spring; Till The End Of The World; Cherokee; We'll Be Together Again; At The End Of The Night; Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar.

Geoff Stradling: Nimble Digits

by Jack Bowers
May 18, 2024

Remember the good old days when bandleaders would give a downbeat and their bands would start swinging and keep on doing so until their audiences literally begged for more? Welcome to the past--present tense--courtesy of pianist Geoff Stradling's superb Los Angeles-based StradBand, which swings heartily and with seldom a pause on its radiant and power-laden introductory ...

Echo Deep

By Joe Santa Maria

Label: Orenda Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Apix Groob; Soap Box; Mad Max; Pathways 1; Lullaby; Play Play; Pathways 2; On the Water; Where's Annie?

Ode To Joe

By David Whitman

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Time Out; Bop This; Home; Ode to Joe; Ness Please; With Love.