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Mike Gurrola
Born in Redwood City, CA in 1991, bassist Mike Gurrola began his musical journey studying and playing violin in his elementary school orchestra in La Crescenta, California. In his early teenage years an interest in rock and blues guitar led him to learn guitar on his own at home; meanwhile he had switched from violin to bass in his middle school orchestra. Mike's interest in jazz developed because of his desire to attend the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA) where the school day was split equally between academics and the pursuit of the student's art. He auditioned successfully on upright bass and began a fruitful period of rapid development in jazz knowledge and skill, while winning group and individual awards at competitions at the Berklee College of Music and Monterey Jazz Festival annual school competitions, including a scholarship to Berklee's presitigious five-week jazz workshop led by critically acclaimed drummer Terri-Lynne Carrington and a seat two times as bassist in the Monterey Jazz Festival's Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, playing at the North Sea and Monterey Jazz Festivals and at the Kennedy Center
Plays Monk Live! At The Baked Potato
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Monk’s Dream; Let’s Cool One; Evidence; Green Chimneys; Misterioso.
Eddie Told Me So
By Bob Reynolds
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: Harrisburg; When Your Lover Has Gone; Change Partners; Just Friends; Eddie Told Me
So; Charade; You Don’t Know What Love Is.
Live In Concert
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2026
Track listing: We've Got A World That Swings; I Just Found Out About Love; The Great City; Your Song; How
Glad Am I; That Sunday That Summer; Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight; West Coast Blues; Day
In Day Out; With These Hands; Who Can I Turn To?; Everybody's Talkin'; Doodlin'; Tall Hope.
Charles Ruggiero: Plays Monk Live! At The Baked Potato
by Jack Bowers
Perhaps no other composer has contributed more standards to the jazz canon than Thelonious Sphere Monk, whose music was once considered too atypical and erratic for the mainstream. Times and tastes have changed, however, and on second glance, Thelonious Monk's compositions, even when skirting the norm, seem nowhere near as deviant as before. In 2026, it ...
Bob Reynolds: Eddie Told Me So
by Jack Bowers
When Bob Reynolds first heard tenor saxophonist Eddie Harris, he was more than impressed. “I've been inspired by his music ever since," Reynolds writes. Indeed, he was. So inspired, in fact, that there is more than a little Harris in his tenor's tone and temper on Eddie Told Me So, in which Reynolds' quartet does its ...
Billy Childs Trio, Inara George, Faye Carol, and Resonance Records presents newly unearthed Mal Waldron cut featuring Sonny Stitt
by Hobart Taylor
This week, we have a mix of standards re-imagined and emerging artists. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Faye Carol “Jitterbug Waltz" from Forever Dynamic (Getdown) 00:12 Julian Davis Reid “Textures" from Vocation (Self-Produced) 07:24 Bria Skonberg “ Of Liberty" from Brass (Cellar) 14:08 Host Speaks 24:05 Marcello Carelli/Bob Mintzer/Russell Ferrante/Mike Gurrola “Noodles and Potatoes" from ...
Jonathan Karrant with The Joe Alterman Trio: Live In Concert
by Pierre Giroux
There is a unique honesty that only a live recording can reveal, and on Live in Concert, vocalist Jonathan Karrant and pianist Joe Alterman embrace that truth with confidence, grace, and genuine joy. Recorded during a performance at The Smith Center in Las Vegas, the album captures not just a series of songs but the authentic ...
First Impressions
Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Ahead of the Curve; Navigating the Maze; Parting Ways; Recorda Me; Wanna Bounce?; Play It
Cool; I Can See the Glimmer; Noodles and Potatoes; You’re Not Alone; First Impressions.
Marcello Carelli: First Impressions
by Jack Bowers
There is no sophomore slump on First Impressions, which is the second recording by the splendid young drummer Marcello Carelli's quartet/trio. It is one on which he not only anchors the rhythm section but also wrote nine of the studio date's ten bright and engaging tunes. If a musician can be appraised by ...
