Jazz from Bloomington

Review Recent CDs by Local Bloomington Musicians

As a service to our viewers, we here provide the opportunity to read reviews—and to post your own reviews—of recent jazz CDs by local Bloomington musicians. Note that all submitted reviews will be moderated by the webmaster before they appear here. In order to speed up this process, please notify the by email once you have submitted a review. (If you wish to have your CD appear here, see below.)

Items to Review

Jazz from Bloomington, vol. 2: A Tribute to Hoagy Carmichael

Introduction & Hoagy Stories (David Brent Johnson) The Nearness of You (Conspiracy Theory) Memphis in June (ii-V-I) Lazy Bones (Monika Herzig & Friends) Skylark (Janice Jaffe) Baltimore Oriole (Üt Haus) Skylark (I.U. Jazz Faculty) Stardust (Janiece Jaffe & Monika Herzig) Heart & Soul (Children of JFB)

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Monika Herzig Acoustic Project: In Your Own Sweet Voice: A Tribute to Women Composers

With: Monika Herzig (piano) Tom Clark (tenor saxophone) Peter Kienle (guitar) Frank Smith acoustic bass) Steve Davis (drums)

Audioclips: Spring Fever (mp3) Katy's Melting Song (Real Audio)

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Kwyjibo: The Rise of Kwyjibo

With: Peter Kienle (guitar) Danny Deckard (drums) Matt Everhart (bass) Joe Donnelly (saxophones, keyboards)

Audioclips: Sign Broken, Come in for Message (mp3) Georgia Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (mp3)

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The Saxophone Cartel: Caught in the Act

With: Ariel Alexander (soprano saxophone) Michael Eaton (tenor saxophone) Joshua Goldberg (alto saxophone, clarinet) Matt Cashdollar (alto and tenor saxophones, flute) Ben Himpel (tenor and baritone saxophones) Colin Renick (baritone and bass saxophones, bass clarinet)

Audioclips: Crook (mp3) Ring Shout (sample, mp3)

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Sara Caswell: But Beautiful

Sara Caswell (violin), with: Lynne Arriale (piano), Larr Kohut & Jeremy Allen (bass), Steve Davis (drums), Rachel Caswell (vocals on several tracks)

Audioclips available on the CD's webpage.

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Musicians, if you have a recent jazz CD and would like to have it listed here, please get in touch with the . Here are the particulars:

We list only jazz CDs. Good music comes in all genres and styles, but we are here to serve the jazz community. (We construe "jazz" to include a very broad spectrum of music, but not everything.)

We list only jazz CDs by local Bloomington musicians and bands. (Nevertheless, we will gladly provide links to other musicians and bands, on our "Links" page.)

We list only recent CDs, those that have appeared within, say, the past year.

If your CD meets this description, please provide the webmaster with the address of a webpage describing your CD and where it can be obtained, and including an image from the cover art that we can link to from this page. If your webpage includes audioclips from the CD, we can provide links to one or two of them from here. (Viewers should go directly to your webpage if they want to hear more audioclips.)


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