Will Brahm

Distance to Empty

By Will Brahm

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Mayweather Beginning; Crimes; San Niccolo; Summer's Blessing; Late Lightning; Absolution; August; Tides.

Will Brahm: Distance to Empty

by Karan Khosla
June 16, 2025

Distance to Empty is a phrase that carries a familiar feeling--something you might glimpse glowing on the dashboard as you pull away from a final pit stop before a long journey. Will Brahm, metaphorically and musically, poses these questions: How far can you go with what you have? What is left in the tank? What is ...

Cathy Segal-Garcia: Social Anthems - Volume 2

by Nicholas F. Mondello
October 3, 2024

Los Angeles-based Renaissance woman Cathy Segal-Garcia is well-known as an innovator, trailblazer and an artist who sets her own artistic paths. As a vocalist, composer/arranger, broadcaster, educator and more, she has never shied away from risk. Social Anthems, Vol. 2 follows the first volume which also was a production with socially conscious themed material. With this ...

Tierra Y Alma

By Angelo Velasquez

Label: Velasquezmusic
Released: 2023
Track listing: 1. Gates of Tollan 2. Mariposas 3. Murcielago 4. Please (Don��t Push Me Away) 5. The Chieftain 6. Xibalba 7. I Hear A Rhapsody 8. Levantate 9. Ashley 10. Dynamo

The Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra

By Steven Feifke

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: I��ve Got Algorithm; Sassy; Inner Urge; Until; Scenes from My Dreams; Remember Me; Dollar��s Moods; Nica��s Dream; Blues in a Second.

Arturo Sandoval At Yoshi's

by Walter Atkins
December 16, 2022

Arturo Sandoval Yoshi's Oakland Oakland CA November 20, 2022 Emmy and ten-time Grammy-winning trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and his band performed Sunday night before an enthusiastic audience at Yoshi's Oakland. This was the final show in a completely sold out weekend of Afro Cuban music and much more at the popular ...

Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra: The Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra

by Jack Bowers
September 12, 2022

The Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra, co-led by pianist/composer Steven Feifke and trumpeter par excellence Bijon Watson, is a seventeen-member ensemble comprising seasoned players paired with young lions who are poised to capture pride of place. Nowhere do the leaders say who is in which group, and it would be impolitic to name them here. Suffice to ...

Jimmy Branly: The Meeting

by Richard J Salvucci
July 7, 2022

There are decades when nothing happens, said Lenin, and weeks when decades happen. There have been far too many weeks in the three years since 2019 when decades went by. Looking for stability in the midst of madness may be a fool's errand, but it is for just such instances that recordings like The Meeting are ...

Jimmy Branly Trio: The Meeting

by Pierre Giroux
June 24, 2022

Patience is a commodity which musicians generally have in an unlimited supply because the path from being an unknown musician to a known musician is long and filled with twists and turns, with no guarantee of arriving at a predicted destination. Drummer Jimmy Branly began that journey in his native Cuba and, along the way, recorded ...