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  New Release: Bite Your Tongue from Interplay Jazz Orchestra Label:  Bigtime Records Release Date:  February 26, 2026 Website: https://www.facebook.com/InterplayJazzOrchestra IG: https://www.instagram.com/interplayjazzorchestra The youthfulness in Interplay Jazz Orchestra's performance penetrates the listener from the get-go.  The orchestra's present lineup sees their sophomore offering Bite Your Tongue out of the gate in 2026.  An assortment of covers and originals, the compositions are abound with bopping harmonies, swinging horns, jangly keys, and romping beats.  Layers of trombones, saxophones, and trumpets produce a party atmosphere that keeps the music bustling through numbers like "The Congregation," penned by Johnny Griffin and "Go Figure," written by the band's baritone saxophonist Chris Scarnato.  The bluesy cool jazz glaze of "My Foolish Heart," composed by Victor Young, is a wondrous serenade sprinkled in sparkling horns, coasting...

Imagine finding the key to the mythical Elysian Fields or the otherworldly Nirvana or the sublime Heaven, where the body and spirit come together beyond the terrestrial plane.  When the body meets the creative force that builds life.   Drummer-composer-collaborator Brian Shanker Adler experiences such transcendental moments while he is composing music, collaborating with others and crossing cerebral streams to create soundscapes that supersede anyone's individual imagination.  It is a moment when minds are synchronized to shape a symposium of sounds that flicker with the intensity of a sonically entrancing constellation. Adler shares, "Some of the most profound conversations I’ve ever had have taken place through music—specifically through rhythm. I have performed with musicians where no common spoken language existed, yet our connection remained as clear as day within the music. When we find these rare connections, it’s exactly the kind of spark we’re looking for."...

  Night Mist from Peter Calandra Label:  Self-Released Release Date:  May 23, 2025 Website:  https://www.petecalandramusic.com Composer-keyboardist Peter Calandra presents his latest release Night Mist , comprised of eleven original arrangements that project stimulating sensations relatable to the works of composer James Horner with a cinematic fascination emblematic of the scores by composer Bill Conti.  Some compositions like "Winter Song" and "Whispers of the Dawn" showcase Calandra playing solo piano, speaking to the listener on an intimate level.  Other tracks have an atmospheric texture with lofty string arrangements that flex a charismatic fluidity like "Peaceful Valley" and "Mohawk Morning."  The ambient soundscapes have a glistening quality that are uplifting, enchanting the listener as the melodic intervals meld into each other, pervading an amorous shimmer. Calandra's synth effects have a thrilling magnetism that galvanizes the lis...

  Days of Gypsy Nights from Doug Wyatt Label:  Sonosphere Music Release Date:  April 18, 2024 Website: https://www.dougwyatt-music.com A refined smorgasburg of ambient strings, silky keys, tightly-knit percussive beats, and wavy saxophone tweets, Days of Gypsy Nights from pianist-composer-leader Doug Wyatt is a dreamy escape into an incorporeal textured ether.  Suspended strings swerve and twist smoothly across "Katy's Spring" as Wyatt's keys prance lightly, treading a tender pulsing along the melodic course.  The soft vibrations of Wyatt's keys are encircled in fluttering strings across "The Pseudo-Iterative," producing an angelic atmosphere, traversing into the portly throbbing of Michael Rosen's tenor saxophone through "Mythaka," as the breathy strokes of Wyatt's keys ruminate blissfully.  Wyatt's lilting keys imprint a poetic versing along "Return To The Sea Beyond," perusing delicately as wispy strings swirl and swis...

  New Release:  Steppin' Out from Mike Davis Label:  Turtle Bay Records Release Date:  April 5, 2024 Website: https://mike-davis-jazz.com/ Traditional ragtime transcribed in a modern language for contemporary listeners is cornetist and arranger Mike Davis's forté.  His new disc Steppin' Out has the leisurely lollygagging gait of vintage 1920's jazz and the liberating romps of flapper era kicklines, popularized through the Roaring Twenties.  Davis's music takes audiences back in time to the halls of speakeasies like 21 Club, the Stork Club, and the Cotton Club in New York City.   Recalling of artists like cornetist Bix Beiderbecke and pianist Jelly Roll Morton, the compilation is a blend of New Orleans jazz, Dixieland swing, and Tinpan Alley ragtime.  Davis sprouts a jubilant collection of standards and one original, “Half-Seas Over,” created by the band's pianist, Andy Schumm.  The arrangement nestles flaring horns beside a kickline rhy...

  New Release:  Zero Point from Hadar Noiberg and Katia Toobool Label:  Self-Released Release Date:  August 29, 2025 Website:  www.hadarnoiberg.com Stories woven from musical notes flittering, floating, frothing, and furling through improvised exchanges, hoist sonic passages that offer audiences a transcending experience with the recording Zero Point from award-winning flutist, composer, arranger, and producer Hadar Noiberg and pianist/composer Katia Toobool.  The duo is backed by a string quartet that brings out the warm luster of Noiberg and Toobool's original scores, showcasing a mixture of intimate reflections and aurally picturesque vistas, employing a wide range of influences, including classical music, Brazilian rhythms, and ambient jazz.   Performed live, the recording is filled with lyrical patterns, lobbing strings, and resonating spirals from Noiberg's flute.  The melodic musings explore the interplay between keys, strings and flu...