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In Your Own Backyard documents the wealth of vocal talent Nick Anderson has been bringing to his Seattle-area house concerts for the last several years, and the new musical partnerships he's created...

Over the past decade, composer and trumpeter Erik Jekabson has been at the center of a daunting array of creatively charged musical situations that consistently attract the Bay Area's most incisive...

Based in the tradition of Larry Young, Jimmy Smith, and Jack McDuff, and pulsing to the heartbeat of current musical trends, Denver's Jeff Jenkins Organization is one of the great regional groups...

Vocalist Kelley Johnson's glistening sound stands out for it's emphatic clarity and direct delivery. On "Something Good," her 5th recording, Kelley presents songs as soundscapes, from lesser-heard...

From intimate readings of jazz standards to their wide-ranging originals, the duo of saxophonist Stephen Jones and pianist Ben Haugland display an easy and compelling rapport. Now anchoring the jazz...

Joined by the highly individual voice of John Stowell on guitar, and four dynamic Bay-area musicians, guitarist Jason Keiser dives into the music and aesthetic of trumpeter Woody Shaw's great...

Katie King's first CD in almost a decade is a collection of songs that tell the story of late night soul searching and questioning. With the help of her quartet, featuring pianist Bill Anschell,...

Saxophonist AJ Kluth's new ensemble, Aldric, is a collective of some of Chicago's busiest musical improvisers who borrow from the worlds of jazz, rock, indie, world, and noise. In addition to Kluth's...

Chicago saxophonist Aj Kluth's quintet presents a set of compositions by Kluth and the band's guitarist Nick Ascher as well as Chick Corea's "Litha" and Thom Yorke's "Atom for Peace." Reveling in the...

Pianist Michael Kocour brings many gifts to this solo piano recording of gems from the Great American Songbook: melodic creativity, harmonic acuity, swinging rhythmic gait, supple technique, an...

(5% DISCOUNT THRU 6-19-15) On "Wherever You Go, There You Are," pianist and composer Michael Kocour offers a kind of casual mastery and urbane carriage that makes the demanding solo piano idiom sound...

In Kohl's hands, each tune is an expedition, and his patient, painterly approach uncovers jewels. - Bill Milkowski. Over the many years, Frank Kohl has thoroughly explored the fine art of solo jazz...