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Jeff Hirshfield

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Jeff Hirshfield was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. He started drum lessons while in elementary school, and in high school he had the opportunity to work with some of the great jazz players, including Zoot Sims, Ray Nance, Charlie McPhearson, and Clark Terry. Except for lessons with Ed Soph and Latin percussionist Frankie Malabe, Hirshfield is essentially self-taught . He began an eleven-year stint of touring in 1977 with Mose Allison, Woody Herman, and several others. In 1988 he settled in New York City and began an active free-lance career and since performed and recorded with John Abercrombie, Fred Hersch, Randy Brecker, Jim Hall, Elaine Elias, John Zorn, Bob Belden and many others.

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What Times Are These

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: In The Light of Day (feat. Keita Ogawa); To Be of Use; An Old Story (feat. Aubrey Johnson & Keita Ogawa); In Those Years (feat. Theo Bleckmann); What Kind of Times Are These (feat. Sara Serpa); Sorrow Song (feat. KOKAYI & Aubrey Johnson; My Grandmother In The Stars (feat. Sara Serpa); I Am Wrestling with Despair (feat. Sara Serpa); Dreams (feat. Aubrey Johnson); In The Day of Light (feat. Keita Ogawa).

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(After)

Label: Adhyâropa Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Recuerdo (after Edna St. Vincent Millay); Frederick Douglass (after Robert Hayden); Five Bells (after Kenneth Slessor); The Hill (after Joshua Mehigan); Pikes Peak (after Sarah Holland - Batt); When I Heard At The Close Of The Day (after Walt Whitman); The Cemetery (after Steve Scafidi); Daniel Boone (after Stephen Vincent Benét); The President Visits The Storm (after Shane McCrae).

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Article: Take Five With...

Take Five From Aaron Irwin

Read "Take Five From Aaron Irwin" reviewed by AAJ Staff


Meet Aaron Irwin Critically acclaimed saxophonist, multi-woodwind player, and composer Aaron Irwin is a compelling voice of his generation. Known as a “lyrical alto saxophonist and a compelling original composer" (The New Yorker), Irwin is a sought-after commodity in the New York jazz scene. Aaron Irwin celebrates his latest project: (After) (Adhyâropa Records, 2024). His ninth ...

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News: Recording

The Jamie Baum Septet+ Release 'What Times Are These' on Sunnyside Records

The Jamie Baum Septet+ Release 'What Times Are These' on Sunnyside Records

On What Times Are These (Sunnyside), Jamie Baum’s fifth recording with The Jamie Baum Septet+, her flagship ensemble, the acclaimed New York-based flutist-composer presents her first exploration of spoken word and art song. To be specific, seven of Baum’s ten compositions respond to works by a cohort of eminent 20 th and 21 st century female ...

Album

Mystic Life

Label: Steeplechase Lookout
Released: 2022
Track listing: Near the Horizon; Dawn; Kaleidoscope; Requiem; Jungle flowers; Procession of Queen Maya Cosmos; Breathing Forest; Early Spring; Moon Night Dance.

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Baden

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Canto de Ossanha; Canto de Xangô; Tristeza e Solidão; Ao Baden; Bluesa Preta/Asa Branca; Canto de Iemanjá; Refém da Solidão; O Astronauta; Mata Adentro; Berimbau / Consolação; Lapinha; For Bill & Baden.

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Article: Album Review

Frank Kimbrough: Frank Kimbrough 2003 - 2006

Read "Frank Kimbrough 2003 - 2006" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Pianist Frank Kimbrough (1956 -2020) was involved in a good deal of collaboration throughout his career, with the Herbie Nichols Project and, most notably, his twenty-four year, seven CD stint in the piano chair of the Maria Schneider Orchestra, where he elevated an already high altitude music to an even loftier level. Such was Kimbrough's willingness ...

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Article: Album Review

Gui Duvignau: Baden

Read "Baden" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Gui Duvignau has had Baden Powell's sound in his sights for some time now. Born in France and raised in Brazil, the rising-star bassist delved deeply into that legendary Brazilian guitarist's work at the behest of several six-stringer friends. And as he studied guitar too, Duvignau came under the sway of Powell's advanced harmonic concepts, personalized ...

Album

3,5,8

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Volta; '2' ; Yerevan; Minas; Une pensée pour Paris; Vem Logo!; Detuned for Drewes; Somewhat; Right? Wow!


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