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Mikel Patrick Avery

Main Gigs -Chicago Jazz Philharmonic -The EveryPeople Jazz Workshop -Orbert Davis Quintet -Jeff Parker -Jesse Palter -Ryan Cohan Quartet -Mwata Bowden -Mikel Avery's EP trio -Nick Mazzarella Expression Ensemble -Andrew Distal -Marlin Mckay Quartet

HAS ALSO PERFORMED WITH: -Ira Sullivan -Kurt Elling -Nicole Mitchell -John Scofield -Ari Brown -Mulrew Miller -Dee Alexander -Scott Burns -Josh Abrams -Bobby Broom -Dave Miller -Guy King -Mike Jellick -Kimberly Gordon....

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Rob Mazurek / Exploding Star Orchestra: Dimensional Stardust

Read "Dimensional Stardust" reviewed by Karl Ackermann


Composer, multi-instrumentalist, and visual artist Rob Mazurek has made his Exploding Star Orchestra the centerpiece of his larger groups. In this formation, he finds ample room to channel his disparate influences such as Sun Ra and Bill Dixon, and the distinctions he's absorbed as a global citizen. On Dimensional Stardust Mazurek and a dozen collaborators present an energetic, always changeable, genre-less mélange of styles held together by imagination and daring. The imposing Exploding Star Orchestra includes flautist Nicole ...

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Juan Vinuesa Jazz Quartet: Blue Shots From Chicago

Read "Blue Shots From Chicago" reviewed by Mark Corroto


Chicago, a city of big shoulders, continues to present proof of poet Carl Sandburg's words from the poem of the same name... “Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning." Why is this? Because Chicago in 2020 remains the same as evoked in these words from 1914, “fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action." It is a city that welcomes all comers who can bring ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Dave Miller

Tompkins Square
2020

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Dimensional Stardust

International Anthem/Nonesuch
2020

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Blue Shots From...

NoBusiness Records
2019

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Flow

Delmark Records
2017

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Deep Moraine

From: Dave Miller
By Mikel Patrick Avery

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