Jery Ryan

What would you do if you had to change high schools right before your senior year? What would you do if you went from being one of the popular to being one of the bullied? Ryan Harris is forced to change schools when her step-dad accepts a job two hours away from her home town of Kansas City. In KC everyone knows that Ryan is the daughter of starting pitcher for the KC Critters Tyler Yates. Now that Ryan is in Temple she decided to keep her famous dad to herself and make her way through high school the same as every other teenage girl. What Ryan was not prepared for was Bradley Thomas Brad is the starting pitcher for Temple High and the reining king of the school, who has lost his pitching edge.

There is power in the written word.

Sunken Cities is a concept-album that grows darker and more haunting as the listener delves deeper into the sea; passing the drowning monuments of the world. The music itself often explores Kargoll's guitar compositional technique of acoustic chorusing, wherein the same pitch is played on different strings in close rhythmic proximity, creating an ethereal atmosphere that serves as the bed for other instruments and voices to float on.

The title of Jeff Ryan’s soulful, high energy breakthrough debut single “Up and Up” on Woodward Avenue Records perfectly captures his dynamic career trajectory these past few years. After years of playing in a variety of regional soul, funk and even big band ensembles, the San Francisco Bay Area based saxophone sensation has captivated thousands with his robust, heartfelt vibe at numerous prominent Northern California jazz festivals – including a four year run at the Stockton Jazz Festival, where he has opened and performed along with urban jazz greats Marion Meadows, Eric Darius, Paul Taylor, Nick Colionne and Julian Vaughn. Fans in Southern California have seen him jam with guitarist Nils at Spaghettini. Now, with the release of “Up and Up” and his multi-faceted debut album Embrace, Ryan is in prime position to join their ranks as one of contemporary jazz’s top emerging artists of 2018.

TRYPL, the eponymously titled debut album release, is the happy result of a long professional and personal relationship of three first-call UK instrumentalists, trombonist Trevor Mires, trumpeter Ryan Quigley and saxophonist Paul Booth, and their desire to combine their considerable talents in expressing their love of Latin jazz.

“Nebraska: what a special album that taught me so much about songwriting.

The Bechstein association has been absent from Wigmore Street since 1916, but the 21st century seems to demand a new approach. With the restoration of this historic recital venue, complete with all mod cons, Wigmore Street acquires a little sister to its famous hall and restores at long last the historic link between this delectable location and the firm of Bechstein itself.