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  Storybook:  The Music of Mark Miller from Birdland Big Band Label Name: Birdland Records Release Date: August 29, 2025 Website: www.marktrombone.com New York-based trombonist, composer and arranger Mark Miller leads Birdland Big Band into a cornucopia of swing, blues, hardcore bop, and modern orchestral jazz with their recording Storybook .  The Birdland Big Band is the house band at the iconic Birdland Jazz Club in New York City.  Their performance is on a professional scale.  Running parallel voices and entering multiple participants interceding the dialogue intermittently with ease and sophistication, never losing the main thread of the discourse.  Culminating into organized mayhem like traffic at the intersection of a heavily congested New York City intersection. This is the image Birdland Big Band incites in their performance of originals and their adventurous interpretations of jazz standards. A fleet of horns, along with piano keys, vibrate bright...

Album:  Live at Vic's Artist:   Nicole Zuraitis Label:   Self-Released Website:  www.nicolezmusic.com Warm and sensual, Nicole Zuraitis's vocals lure her audiences into an uplifting mood, lull them into a tranquil state, and leaves an indelible imprint in their minds.  Her 2025 release Live at Vic's was recorded in front of a live audience, giving the listener insight into her animated interactions with her band and personalized touch at a live performance.   A fusion of soul, jazz, rhythm and blues, and adult contemporary, Zuraitis's vocals softly cradle the lyrics, as her purring timbres shape and refine the delicate nuances in her delivery of "Pure Imagination," making it an exceptional piece.  Turning her vocals shimmery and percussive through her reimagination of Dolly Parton's tune "Jolene," Zuraitis's vocals portray unbridled passion.  Her duet with bassist Samuel Weber cruises charmingly along "The Coffee Song," demonstratin...