Mike Khoury - For Hind Rajab - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Recorded live at Temescal Art Center in Oakland, CA as part of their Babylon 2018 evening, the quartet of Gino Robair (electronics), Phillip Greenlief (tenor sax and clarinet), Mike Khoury (viola) and Dominic Cramp, aka Lord Tang (lyra) improvise in 2 short and 2 extended electroacoustic conversations of detailed restraint, unique pointillism and unforseen atmospheres. Album Tracks 1. Meaning Is Something That Is Ascribed 2. Nature Is the Objective Reality 3. The Universe Was Not Created 4. Nothing, By Definition, Does Not Exist

2020 . Trombonist, composer, and arranger Mike Fahie merges classical and jazz idioms with the debut from the Mike Fahie Jazz Orchestra. Album Tracks 1. Prélude, Op. 28 No. 20 - Frédéric Chopin 2. InchNessun DormaInch from Turandot - Giacomo Puccini 3. Excerpts from the Firebird - Igor Stravinsky 4. La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin from Préludes, Book 1 - Claude Debussy 5. String Quartet No. 1, III. Allegro Vivace - Béla Bartók 6. Symphony No. 6, II. Allegro Con Grazia - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 7. InchSeufzer, Tränen, Kummer, NotInch from Cantata, BWV 21 - Johann Sebastian Bach

For three decades Mike LeDonne has been an exceptional avatar of the Hammond B3 organ. Forged by his impressive jazz apprenticeship, with the likes of Milt Jackson, George Coleman and Benny Golson, LeDonne comes from a long and distinguished line of masters of that instrument. And for eighteen years, he's lead the Groover Quartet his formidable foursome consisting of tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander, guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Joe Farnsworth. Joining the quartet is the great drummer Mike Clark. After collaborations with Herbie Hancock, Christian McBride, Nicholas Payton and others, Clark has influenced a generation of percussionists and brings his own unmistakable style to two tracks on the CD. Album Tracks 1. Someday 2. From the Heart 3. You'll Never Know What You Mean to Me 4. Here Comes the Doctor 5. Back Baby 6. Fun Day 7. You Send Me 8. Then Came You