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Drummer Brandon Sanders to Release New Project “Lasting Impression” on Nov. 7th, 2025 | LISTEN!


 
Drummer Brandon Sanders, former college hoops player and Compton DJ, leaves a Lasting Impression with his deeply swinging third album
 
Out November 7, 2025 via Savant/HighNote Records, Lasting Impression features Warren Wolf, Stacy Dillard, Eric Scott Reed, Eric Wheeler and guest vocalist Jazzmeia Horn
 
Brandon Sanders was 25 years old before he ever picked up a pair of drumsticks, an age when most musicians can already boast years of study, gigging and recording.

Blue Note Records to Release Vinyl Edition of Saxophonist Ike Quebec “The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions” (3-LP & 2-CD) on October 10th, 2025 | WATCH NEW VIDEO!


 
BLUE NOTE ANNOUNCES SPECIAL TONE POET VINYL EDITION OF
IKE QUEBEC THE COMPLETE BLUE NOTE 45 SESSIONS
 
3-LP & 2-CD SETS OUT OCT. 10 COLLECT A BODY OF WORK RECORDED
BETWEEN 1959-62 BY A KEY FIGURE IN BLUE NOTE HISTORY
WITH A BOOKLET FEATURING AN ESSAY BY SCHOLAR LOREN SCHOENBERG
PLUS NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS BY FRANCIS WOLFF
 
Blue Note Records has announced the October 10 release of Ike Quebec The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions, a special Tone Poet Vinyl Edition that collects a magnificent body of work recorded between 1959-62 by an important figure in Blue Note history.

Drummer Pat Petrillo Releases New Video for “Late Night Diner” | WATCH!


 
** Pat Petrillo’s
NEW VIDEO
“Late Night Diner”
 
Pat Petrillo‘s new video for his hot track “Late Night Diner” features the band once again at Sunset Sound Studio 2 in Hollywood laying down a phat shuffle, reminiscent of an after hours hang at one of New York City’s amazing diners! (Not to mention the tip of the cap to the Late Night World’s Most Dangerous Band!)

Trumpeter Theo Croker’s Album “Dream Manifest” is Now Available on Vinyl


 
Theo Croker’s Visionary Album Dream Manifest Now Available on Limited Edition Vinyl via Fat Beats
 
Includes Exclusive Color Variants + 180g Black Vinyl, Order Here
 
GRAMMY-nominated trumpeter, composer, and producer Theo Croker’s acclaimed album Dream Manifest—a fearless, genre-defying exploration of sound and spirit—is now available for the first time on vinyl via Fat Beats, a cornerstone of global vinyl culture since 1994.

Drummer Johnathon Blake Releases New Single “Requiem for Dreams Shattered” ft. Bilal | LISTEN!


 
DRUMMER-COMPOSER JOHNATHAN BLAKE SET TO RELEASE
HIS POWERFUL NEW ALBUM MY LIFE MATTERS ON SEPT. 19
 
Drummer-composer Johnathan Blake is set to release his powerful new Blue Note album My Life Matters on Sept. 19, a suite of music he composed as a commission for The Jazz Gallery that serves as a dual treatise on the importance of family values and the social imperative to stand up in the face of injustice.

Latin Jazz Pianist Zahili Zamora to Release New Project “Overcoming” on Oct. 24th, 2025 | LISTEN!


 
Latin Jazz Pianist Zahili Zamora to Release New Project “Overcoming” on Oct. 24th, 2025
 
Zahili González Zamora, the brilliant Cuban-born Afro Latin jazz pianist, vocalist, composer, bandleader, arranger and educator, is getting ready to release a landmark new album and she’s coming to Boston’s famed Scullers Jazz Club on Friday, October 24 for a very special date.

Brazilian Artists Flora Purim & Airto Moreira Join Ricardo Bacela on New Single “Aqui Oh!” | WATCH NEW VIDEO!


 
Brazilian Artists Flora Purim And Airto Moreira Join Pianist Ricardo Bacela On New Single “Aqui Oh!”
 
FORTALEZA, Brazil – Aug. 29, 2025 – PRLog — Brazilian jazz legends Flora Purim and Airto Moreira have teamed up with musician-producer Ricardo Bacelar for a new single, “Aqui, Oh!” (by Toninho Horta and Fernando Brant), releasing August 29 on streaming platforms worldwide.

Bassist Christian McBride Releases Live Performance Video for “Op. 49 – Cold Chicken Suite, 3rd Movement” | WATCH!


 
9x GRAMMY® Award-Winner
Christian McBride Shares Live Performance Video of
“Op. 49 – Cold Chicken Suite, 3rd Movement”
 
New Big Band Album
Without Further Ado, Vol 1,
Featuring A Jaw-Dropping Array of Jazz Vocal Royalty,
Out This Friday August 29 On Mack Avenue Records
 
August 27, 2025: Today, nine-time GRAMMY® Award winning bassist / composer Christian McBride released a live performance video of “Op. 49 – Cold Chicken Suite, 3rd Movement,” featuring his big band from their Newport Jazz Festival set.

Saxophonist Nick Gomez Releases New Single “Stimulus” | WATCH NEW VIDEO!


 
Stimulating times for jazz saxophonist Nick Gomez
 
His new single, “Stimulus,” dropped on Friday, the same day that the feature film, “Hollywood Grit,” for which he composed the score and cowrote, produced, and arranged ten songs, opened in AMC Theatres.
 
LOS ANGELES, Calif. (27 AUGUST 2025): As Nick Gomez walked his first Hollywood red carpet last Thursday night, it was a night to celebrate multiple professional accomplishments made possible by his personal decision to get sober.

Bassist Mike Boone Releases New Track “Give Me The Night x2: Re-mixed, Re-imagined” | LISTEN!


 
Bassist Mike Boone Releases “Give Me the Night x2: Re-mixed, Re-imagined”
 
Mr. Boone: I recorded Give Me the Night on My Enjoying the View album, which came out in 2023. It did pretty well, but I was less that satisfied. A good, knowledgeable friend suggested that I do a ‘re-mix’ for my arrangement, and put it out as a single.

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