CREATIVE NATION

The first recording on CNM by the Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra. Muse features the great Boston tenor saxophonist George Garzone. Each of the eight compositions is either a dedication or commission...

People I Like is The Blueprint Project's follow up to it's critically acclaimed self-titled debut. Like their first outing the trio adds a guest artist to round out the roster, this time it's new...

For their third release, saxophonist Jared Sims, guitarist Eric Hofbauer and pianist Tyson Rogers looked to make a deeper connection to the jazz tradition. "We wanted to expand what we do and connect...

Guitarists Garrison Fewell and Eric Hofbauer have recorded 15 tracks of improvised music influenced by everything from the African Disapora to the Mississippi Delta and all but 2 of the tunes are...

Sound Particle 47 is the second release from veteran Boston-based guitarist/composer Garrison Fewell's Variable Density Sound Orchestra. The group brings together a flexible cast of improvisers from...

This is Boston-based guitarist/composer Eric Hofbauer's recorded debut as a bandleader with Myth Understanding, featuring his year-old working quartet, Eric Hofbauer and the Infrared Band, Eric...

American Fear, Boston based guitarist/composer Eric Hofbauer's second recording as a solo guitarist, is the sequel to his 2004 debut, American Vanity (CNM 3). Like that earlier release, American Fear...

Guitarist Eric Hofbauer's "American Vanity" is more than a solo album. It's a musically and conceptually daring examination of a wide range of American songs and the different facets of American...

Like it's predecessor, 2008 release Myth Understanding, the Infrared Band's second release also revels in wordplay (the title is a palindrome) but this time the primary inspiration behind the music...

Recorded live at Temescal Art Center in Oakland, CA as part of their Babylon 2018 evening, the quartet of Gino Robair (electronics), Phillip Greenlief (tenor sax and clarinet), Mike Khoury (viola)...

The Monster Returns is the latest recording from the Boston-based theatrical jazz group, Quartet of Happiness. Known for it's unusual combination of performance art, irreverent humor, story telling...

This is the first release from the guitar duo of Rebecca Shrimp ton and Eric Hofbauer. Shrimp ton is a bright new voice in jazz, and Hofbauer is from the Blueprint Project (in 2004, he released his...