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Alejandro Aviles
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Alejandro Avilés is a first generation Cuban-American who comes from a long lineage of musicians. In fact, Mr. Avilés' family is being considered by the Guiness Book of World Records for having the longest, most continuous family run musical group in the world. The Orquesta Hermanos Avilés was started by his great-grandfather, Manuel Avilés, in 1882 in Holguin, Cuba, and is remarkably still in existence today. Based in NYC, Alejandro Avilés works as an adjunct professor at Hofstra University and Hunter College teaching saxophone and jazz improvisation while performing as a versatile musician in genres ranging from straight ahead jazz, Brazilian and Afro-Cuban music, to Broadway
Oracles
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Convergence; Samba da Gumz; Positively C.T.; Diana; Wayne's World; Mr. Virtuoso; R.J.; A Little Bird Watchin'; Pianism: I. Barry Harris, II. Kenny Barron, III: Herbie Hancock; Peace.
Reunion
By Chris Parker
Label: Circle 9
Released: 2026
Track listing: Emmy’s Shuffle; Say It Again; Just a Thought; Stages; Been This Way Before; Left at
Bingen; Reunion; Stand Back; Boonchaka; Hymn; To You (for Teresia); One for CB.
Bite Your Tongue
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: The Congregation; Bite Your Tongue; Go Figure; My Foolish Heart; It’s Been a Long,
Long Time; Strasbourg/St. Denis; The Downside of Up; Night and Day; Blues for
Adrian.
Chris Parker Septet: Reunion
by Jack Bowers
This is a Reunion that Chris Parker was lucky to celebrate. In August 2023, eight months after recording his fifth album as leader and while vacationing in his native Oregon, Parker suffered a serious stroke that left him (temporarily) unable to walk or use his left hand when playing the piano. Before that misfortune struck, Parker ...
The Interplay Jazz Orchestra: Bite Your Tongue
by Jack Bowers
Even though it began life as the Hofstra University Alumni Orchestra before being renamed in 2013, the Interplay Jazz Orchestra has proven time and again during the course of five splendid recordings that its noble heritage remains intact and that it bears an indomitable spirit of its own, one which affirms that it need not bow ...
Emilio Solla: Uncovering Music Already There
by Dean Nardi
In the '40s, the jazz scene was dominated by bebop with its roots in swing music, formerly the purview of the big band era. Trios and quartets became the combo of choice for players such as Charlie “Yardbird" Parker and Thelonious Monk, who took the harmonies of the old jazz and superimposed them on chord substitutions, ...
Vibrations
By Stuart Mack
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Vibrations Intro; Vibrations; Beets; Stu's Blues; Pure Intentions; 2019; When Breath Becomes Air; Bass Solo;
Beginning And End; Different Realities; Summertime
Things Will Pass
By Hyeseon Hong
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2024
Track listing: Road to Hana; Memoirs of Ladies; Raindrop’s Journey; Run Away; Waltzing with Dad; Treasure
Hunt; Night Climbing; Dance with Dracula; We Will Meet Again.
Heartland Radio
Label: SoundSpore Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Heartland Radio; Stop & Go; New Beginnings; Barbara; Golden Handcuffs; Little Song; Walking on
Water.
