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  So Many Memories from Loren Schoenberg and his Jazz Orchestra Label:  Turtle Bay Records Release Date: November 7, 2025 Website:  https://www.lorenschoenbergjazz.com Recalling the Big Band era of the later half of the 1930's, bandleader-tenor saxophonist-pianist Loren Schoenberg and his 15-piece Jazz Orchestra recapture the melodic luster, harmonic elegance, and radiant opulence of speakeasy, Post-World War I, Post-Prohibition Age, Café Society jazz on their compilation So Many Memories.   Having served for 40 years overseeing the Benny Goodman Archives at Yale University and a longtime Juilliard jazz history professor, Schoenberg mints a selection of nostalgic tunes from yesteryear, encouraging listeners to delve into America's memory bank.  The 16-track collection features previously unheard arrangements penned from 1936-39 by swing era composer/arranger Eddie Sauter, and created for bandleader and early jazz vibraphonist Red Norvo and his wife, singer Mildr...

Album:  The Song in Our Soul Artist:  The Palomar Trio Label:  Turtle Bay Records Website:  https://www.danlevinson.com/ The Palomar Trio is comprised of Dan Levinson on clarinet, Mark Shane on piano, and Kevin Dorn on drums, all of whom are New York-based musicians and ardent aficionados of jazz from the 1920's and '30s.  Specializing in traditional jazz and swing music, the trio revive hot jazz novelties descriptive of the Jazz Age on their 2023 release The Song in Our Soul from Turtle Bay Records. The sweltering furls of Levinson's clarinet have a vintage Cotton Club-imbued shimmer partnered with the shuffling strokes of Dorn's drums and the soft kindle in Shane's keys filamenting "Delta Bound."  The slow roll of the rhythmic beats burn with a low-flamed intensity.  Moving along, the shuffling tempo traveling across "Shanty in Old Shanty Town" has a charming ragtime clamor, as the winsome flutter of the keys enhance the sleek trembles of the c...