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Bijon Watson

Grammy® Award-winning trumpeter Bijon Watson’s career as a musician and educator spans more than 30 years and has taken him around the globe to perform for audiences worldwide. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Bijon attended the New England Conservatory of Music Preparatory School, and the University of Southern California, and was a member of the 1994 Disney All-American College Band and 1995 Disney/Grammy All-American College Jazz Band. His love for big band jazz inspired him to become a student of the great bands of the past and present and he has become a sought after and in-demand lead trumpet player that can be heard on television, in films, and award-winning recordings with iconic and world-class artists.

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Tuesday Morning Feeling

Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Tell The Truth; JIFE; Ben's Tune; Off Minor; Snowy Range Blues; Old Folks; Tuesday Morning Feeling; 1330; NPS; 'Mon Back; Groundwork.

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Ben Markley Big Band: Tuesday Morning Feeling

Read "Tuesday Morning Feeling" reviewed by Jack Bowers


When a bandleader says he plans to rely less on arranging the music of others to focus more on his own compositions and charts, the usual response is a prolonged sigh or indifferent shrug of the shoulders --which makes it all the more remarkable that when pianist and composer Ben Markley did exactly that on Tuesday ...

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Ben's Tune

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Label: OA2 Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 06:19

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Chronography

Label: UN-GYVE
Released: 2025
Track listing: 1. Body and Soul 6:08 2. Spring is Here 11:32 3. Old Folks 5:45 4. Like a Lover 3:56 5. Come Sunday 5:44 6. My Romance 9:54 7. In a Sentimental Mood 4:10 8. What’ll I Do 7:06 9. For “O” 5:32 10. Dr. Diz: (Hot House - Con Alma - Night in Tunisia) 16:36

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6th Avenue

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: All the Things You Are; Let’s Do It; Durango Drive; There Will Never Be Another You; Parisian Deception; Anything Goes; 6th Avenue; Chega de Saudade; Someday My Prince Will Come; May.

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Griot Songs

Label: Omar Thomas Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Sun in September; Sail to the Moon; Obeah Woman; Nothing There; Episode d’Azure; The Path; A Touch of Obsidian, a Flash of Scarlet.

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Article: Album Review

Mike Thompson: 6th Avenue

Read "6th Avenue" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Composer and arranger Mike Thompson was in his mid-twenties when 6th Avenue, his debut album as leader of a big band, was recorded (in the mid-2020s) at Q Division Studios in Cambridge, Massachusetts, enlisting for the most part veteran Boston-area musicians whom Thompson had met and befriended while studying at the Berklee School of Music, from ...

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Obeah Woman

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Label: Omar Thomas Music
Released: 2025
Duration: 12:08

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Omar Thomas Large Ensemble: Griot Songs

Read "Griot Songs" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Dopo una lunga gestazione, giunge a noi questo che è il terzo lavoro del Large Ensemble diretto dal compositore newyorchese Omar Thomas (incisione del maggio 2024), un doppio album ambizioso e di chiaro intento anche didascalico in cui l'orchestra appare eloquentemente come il naturale prolungamento del gesto autoriale, con risultati di notevole impatto, sette brani di ...


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