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Magic Beans is Benny Green's ode to the magic chemistry of Blue Note musicians such as Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, Wayne Shorter and Art Blakey, his employer of 25 years ago. The contemporary chemistry of Green on piano, Peter Washington on bass and Kenny Washington on drums recalls the Bud Powell Blue Note trio sessions with a 2013 spin.

LIVE AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

MY LIFE IS BOLD

NORTH HERO

PEUR DU VIDE

MZANSI

ELVIN JONES PROJECT

WHEREVER YOU ARE

UNISON

Although he is originally from Great Britain, he has spent most of his life in the northeastern part of the United States. Born in London on February 23, 1975, Escoffery was only 11 when he left the U.K. with his mother and moved to New Haven, CT in 1986. That year, he joined the New Haven Trinity Boys Choir, and it was also in 1986 that he began studying the tenor sax with saxophone/clarinetist Malcolm Dickinson. Escoffery was still in his teens when he met the famous alto saxophonist Jackie McLean, who Escoffery has described as a mentor and a major inspiration in his life; Escoffery studied with McLean extensively at the Hartt School, a performing arts school in West Hartford. After that, he attended the New England Conservatory in Boston and graduated from that institution with a Masters in 1999 before moving to New York City the following year at the age of 25.

DRUM MUSIC: MUSIC OF PAUL MOTIAN

PIERROT ET COLOMBINE

Grammy winner Luciana Souza was raised in S�o Paulo, Brazil, where she grew up in a family of Bossa Nova composers. A respected composer and vocalist, she defies categories bringing her outstanding musicianship and unique sound to any project. Whether performing works by Osvaldo Golijov, Paul Simon, or Herbie Hancock, singing with the big bands with Maria Schneider and Kenny Wheeler, or performing in small jazz groups, Souza brings something to the music that has been called "transcendental." Her new CD, Duos III closes the trilogy, while the simultaneously released the Book of Chet is Luciana's highly introspective exploration of the singing of Chet Baker. Both records are to be released on August 28th, 2012, on Sunnyside Records.

TONGOS

The violin has a long history in western music, including an important part in the early stages of jazz. Even with this history, the instrument hasn't been much a fixture in the contemporary jazz scene. The French bred, Brooklyn based Scott Tixier presents his Brooklyn Bazaar as an introduction to a new improvisational voice on the violin.

2012 album from the Austrian-born Jazz bassist. Hans had decided on a trio setting because of his regard for the smaller ensembles of Sonny Rollins and Charlie Haden. The musicians that he chose for the group are exceptional young talents, saxophonist Samir Zarif and drummer Eric Doob.

Guitarist Scott DuBois has made a concerted effort to create a focused ensemble with a sound custom fit for his emotive compositional voice. He has found the perfect foils in reed player Gebhard Ullmann, bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Kresten Osgood.

2013 release from the internationally renowned saxophonist composer/educator. A fluid, vigorous soloist with a warm, soulful sound, Dayna has also proven himself a master of composition and arrangement, a highly acclaimed band leader and an "in-demand" side-man for some of Jazz' contemporary masters, such as Kenny Barron, Idris Mohammed, Taylor Eigsti. In recent years, Stephens has appeared on stage with numerous major musicians, including Terence Blanchard, Herbie Hancock, Albert "Tootie" Heath, Matt Wilson, Carlos Santana, Stefon Harris, Stevie Wonder, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Tom Harrell, Roy Hargrove, Gretchen Parlato, and many others. He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance.

Davy Mooney is New Orleans born but now resides in Brooklyn, NY. Perrier Street is a gumbo of jazz, folk, rock & blues!

Aru�n Ortiz, "the latest Cuban wunderkind to arrive in the United States" (BET Jazz), hit the ground running when he came on the American jazz scene in 2003. a former classically trained violist and pianist, this Santiago de Cuba native's sound is as marked by the influence of the contemporary classical composers such as Schoenberg, Ravel, and Copland as by traditional Afro Cuban sounds and jazz greats Bud Powell, Art Tatum, and Thelonious Monk. Ballet music but all Cuban flavored jazz.

A fine pianist who is quite literate (and even wrote What Jazz Is, a book on jazz that focused on the Young Lions), Jonny King has strong potential for the future. He started playing piano when he was nine (Earl Hines and Teddy Wilson were early influences) and within a few years as a teenager he was already playing some gigs in New York clubs. In addition to his music career, King graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law School and has been an attorney at a copyright practice!