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[Receiver2000 4,527]

Parts of that sure sounds like the early Crusaders.

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Melissa Aldana, Filin was released on February 13, 2026.

 

Many of the great jazz tenor saxophonists have a ballads album that highlights their catalog. That’s true from Coleman Hawkins through John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, and even the late Michael Brecker, among several others. Now, on her third Blue Note release, Filin, Chilean-born tenor saxophonist Melissa Aldana joins this legacy. Yet her approach is very different from the aforementioned in that she does not gravitate to The Great American Songbook, but instead to a still-unheralded tradition of Cuban romantic song that thrived between the late ‘40s and early ‘60s.

 

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[Receiver2000 4,527]

Nice Sunday morning music. Thanks.

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James Fernando, Philly 3 was released on February 6, 2026.

 

"At a moment when the jazz piano trio is often pulled between reverence and reinvention, James Fernando charts a compelling middle course. Were it not for the sheer brilliance of this trio, the album might almost pass for a classical work. That impression is no accident. Fernando openly draws inspiration from one of jazz’s great figures, Erroll Garner, himself a musician whose ambitions were deeply shaped by classical music."

 

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[Receiver2000 4,527]

The piano and violin are nice.

[Sk1Bum 12,793]

I think so too.