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Clovis Nicolas

After having established himself as a first-call bass player on the European scene (performances with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Brad Mehldau, Michel Legrand,..), jazz bassist Clovis Nicolas moved from France to New York in 2002. Since then, he has shared the stage in numerous venues (Jazz Standard, Smalls Jazz Club, Blue Note, 55 Bar, Kennedy Center, Smoke, Jazz Gallery, Birdland, Alice Tully Hall, Dizzy’s Club...) with some of today's most prominent jazz musicians, such as Jeremy Pelt, Grant Stewart, Harry Allen, Branford Marsalis, Curtis Fuller, Benny Powell, James Williams, Peter Bernstein, Joe Magnarelli, Marcus Gilmore, Sachal Vasandani, Eric Alexander, Carl Allen, Greg Hutchinson, and Dan Nimmer.

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Blues in Blueprint: 12 Variations on the Blues

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Old Stack O'Lee Blues; Twisted Blues; One For My Baby (And One More For The Road); Hutch; Lawns; The 5:30 PM Dive Bar Rendezvous; Ramblin'; Blues In Blueprint; The Double Nickel; The Bass Speaks; Groovy Globy; Abide With Me

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Decidedly so

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: D.J.; Decidedly So; Good Health; 10th Anniversary; This Nearly Was Mine; When I Grow Too Old To Dream; When I Fall In Love; Jimmy's Blues.

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Article: Album Review

Clovis Nicolas: Blues in Blueprint: 12 Variations on the Blues

Read "Blues in Blueprint: 12 Variations on the Blues" reviewed by Kyle Simpler


The blues has long functioned as something equivalent to comfort food in jazz, a familiar form that musicians return to again and again. On Blues in Blueprint: 12 Variations on the Blues, bassist Clovis Nicolas embraces that tradition while subtly reframing it. Rather than treating the blues as a fixed structure, Nicolas approaches it as a living ...

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Reverie

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Drydown; Elsa Au Miroir; No Worries; Reverie; Sweet; That Very Vienne; V.S.T. (Valse Sans Titre).

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Article: Album Review

Stefan Sirbu: Reverie

Read "Reverie" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The art of daydreaming is the birthplace of creativity. Moldavian-born pianist Stefan Sirbu delves into that state of receptive awareness with his album Reverie. The seven tunes presented here total up to a bit under 40 minutes. Sirbu says his goal was: “To produce a record that one could listen to during a short commute home, ...

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Unexpected Dirtection

Label: Lyonhill Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Direction Balance OR3 Voyage Thoughts Dream

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All Is Merry And Bright

Label: Imagery Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Royal Davids City; Joy To The World; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing; O Come O Come Emmanuel; Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem; Greensleeves; Deck The Halls; Midnight Clear; God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; Auld Lang Syne.

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Miguel Zenon, Russell Malone & Yvonnick Prene

Read "Miguel Zenon, Russell Malone & Yvonnick Prene" reviewed by Joe Dimino


From talented French-born, NYC-based harmonica player Yvonnic Prene and pianist Geoff Keezer, we triumphantly enter the 870th Episode of Neon Jazz. Off an album dedicated to the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, they do their spin on “Tide." Following that cut, we get into solo work from Keezer and music from his 2000 album Zero One. ...

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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

Read "Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...


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