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Album Title: It Never Entered My Mind Artist: Blue Muse Label: Self-Released Website: www.bluemusejazz.com A simmering brew of west coast cool and radiant swing, Blue Muse transport listeners into warm, easy listening atmospheres on their latest release It Never Entered My Mind .  The vibrant toots of tenor saxophonist Sarah Lee and trumpet/flugelhorn player Steve Strawley trade off solos with Jarrett Carter's babbling guitar and Javian Francis's rippling piano keys while bassist Cody Wheaton and drummers John Medico and Jack Miller provide a steady stream of jaunty grooves. The septet comes together to wield mirth and merriment from start to finish. Lee and Strawley perform a stretch of recurring motifs interspersed with flashy improvised rambles for their reimagination of Horace Silver's number "Nutville."  The septet lets audiences know from the beginning that they are full of energy and boundless creativity, inclined to go off on amusing excursions spurred by ...

Album:  Out On The Coast Artist:  David Angel Label:  Basset Hound Music Website:  http://www.bassethoundmusic.com Saxophonist David Angel leads a 13-piece jazz ensemble on the 3-disc set Out on the Coast, containing 15 of his original compositions alongside 7 jazz standards.  The recording is a window into West Coast cool jazz infused with factions of swing, big band, Latin jazz, and ballroom waltz. The title track opener is an early Angel composition with a ballroom swing component that exudes harmonic sophistication.  The band transitions into the rhumba-esque sway of "Wig," mounted in layers of chiffon-like silhouettes from the assortment of reeds and brass instruments, waving and undulating in a graceful fluidity.  The slow burn wafting from the toots of the horns through "L'ilo Vasche" displays the ensemble's fluency in smooth swing, culminating into the band's remake of Duke Ellington's silky ballad "Prelude To A Kiss" pervading a dr...