Bassist, composer, and longtime bandleader Bruce Gertz returned in 2025 with Octopus Dreams, a new quintet release on Open Mind Jazz. The album features trumpeter-flugelhornist…
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Jazz Currents Collide On Confluence From Jung Stratmann Quartet
Jung Stratmann Quartet – Confluence (self-released, 2025) The Jung Stratmann Quartet has release Confluence, a five-track contemporary jazz album recorded in New York City with…
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Ted Rosenthal Trio Flips The Classics On Impromp2
Ted Rosenthal Trio – Classics Reimagined: Impromp2 (self-released, 2025) Ted Rosenthal returns to the western classical tradition with Classics Reimagined: Impromp2, a new trio album…
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Chano Domínguez And Ethan Margolis’ Spirited ‘The Blues Around Us’
Chano Domínguez and Ethan Margolis – The Blues Around Us (Unifying Sounds, 2025) Unifying Sounds has launched its first release with The Blues Around Us,…
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Alan Pasqua Finds New Hope: Solo Piano Set
Alan Pasqua – New Hope (Blue Canoe Records, 2025) A Steinway Artist, Grammy nominee, and Professor of Jazz Studies at USC’s Thornton School of Music,…
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Nils Landgren Revives Holiday Tradition With “Christmas With My Friends IX”
Nils Landgren – Christmas With My Friends IX (ACT Music, 2025) Swedish trombonist, singer, and producer Nils Landgren returns with the ninth installment of his…
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Welcome, to The Noble Shire for Progressive Discussion here at Progressive Rock Central! Nick Fletcher is back! He is very prolific, indeed. Thank you for…
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Speed-Corrected “Kind Of Blue” 180-Gram 2LP Arrives October 31
Analogue Productions will release a new edition of Miles Davis’ Kind Of Blue on October 31. The 180-gram double LP pairs a 33 1/3 RPM…
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Ravita Swings the Blues: Alice in Azure-Land
Ravita Jazz – Alice Blue (Ravita Jazz, 2025) Like Stravinsky, bassist-composer Philip Ravita’s Alice Blue (2025), builds on tradition to conjure something fresh, balancing rigor…
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Rosenbloom Swings for the Fences with San Francisco 1948
Steve Rosenbloom Big Band – San Francisco 1948 (self-released, 2025) The Steve Rosenbloom Big Band’s San Francisco 1948 presents an engaging brass fanfare: grand, bristling,…
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