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Su Terry
APU - Jazz de Barro (2025) "This is the second album release from the Ecuadorian jazz fusion group Jazz de Barro. The group is made up of 3 of Ecuador's high profile musicians, plus one gringa from New York. They specialize in fusing jazz with the rhythms of the Andes, such as pasillo, festejo, San Juanito, fox caico, and more. For this album the group wanted to add another element to some of the quartet compositions, so they contacted some colleagues in the classical world: the Kuntur String Quartet, who are featured on the title selection as well as the songs Yarawí and Colada Morada. Jazz de Barro has already played several concerts in conjunction with the Cuenca Symphony, so their expansion into such territory is a natural path. Bassist Christian Torres heads up the contrabass section in the symphony, percussionist Pedro Ortiz is a member of the International Latin American Symphony Orchestra, and pianist Lucas Bravo is an award winning classical pianist as well as jazz pianist and professor at the Universidad de Cuenca. Rounding out the group, reed virtuosa Su Terry brings that New York edge and years of experience as a world-renowned player/composer. "
~ Dan Bilawsky - Bandcamp.com


Website, Wikipedia, Sonicbids, YouTube, and DC Bebop

MUSIC CD ARCHIVE: ONECD

Chris Grasso
Lauren Scales, Mike Flanagan, Chris Grasso - Many Rivers (2025) "Many Rivers is the genre-blending, heart-forward trio debut from vocalist Lauren Scales, saxophonist Mike Flanagan, and pianist Chris Grasso -- a dynamic meeting of artistic voices whose combined experience spans jazz tradition, queer creative spaces, and fearless personal storytelling. . . . Whether honoring the Great American Songbook, experimenting with neo-soul, or writing modern standards of her own, Lauren Scales proves herself a vocal force. Paired with Flanagan’s tuneful warmth and Grasso’s impeccable pianism, Many Rivers is a testament to collaboration, community, and the open-hearted possibilities of jazz today." ~ jazzchill.blogspot.com

Website, Facebook, YouTube and DCBebop page.

MUSIC CD ARCHIVE: DOUBLECD

Dave Stryker
Dave Stryker - Groove Street (2024) "This is a throwback recording, but in a very good way. Time was someone could get in a car on a weekend morning, roll the window down, turn the FM up and drive to a happy place. It really did not matter much where: the music got you there because it was just that kind of straight ahead, in your face, bliss is it to be young sort of thing. In a big city such as Philadelphia a jazz station like WRTI-FM may have been entertaining more than a few adjacent cars. Pretty soon, the music, your mood, the passing scene and an occasional station break were all that was required for a good time. This is precisely the kind of recording Dave Stryker's trio has made with Bob Mintzer. Good music, good musicians, good groove: what more can someone ask? The rest comes naturally. "   ~ Richard J Salvucci - AllAboutJazz.com,  Website, YouTube, Facebook and Discography.

Dave Stryker - Eight Track III (2019) "Stryker visited the popular music of his youth with Eight Track (Strikezone, 2014), bringing '70s pop, rock, and soul classics into the jazz realm with his trio mates—organist Jared Gold and drummer McClenty Hunter—and guest vibraphonist Stefon Harris. Not too much has changed for the sequel. He's working with the same trio again, the great Steve Nelson fills the "guest vibraphonist" role to complete the quartet, and a selection of popular songs from the '60s on into the '80s are reworked to fit Stryker's language—a swinging, blues-infused, no bullshit argot that has long served him well. If you're looking for something radical or one step beyond, this isn't it. But if you're looking for more of that good-time spirit, with well-played twists on familiar favorites from the radio—and the eight-track players—of yesteryear, you've come to the right place."   ~ David Becker - AllAboutJazz.com

MUSIC ARTS: SESSION

Music Arts session - Concert, Station, PBS, NPR and other live mini concert sessions and interviews.

Siân Pottok/Hadrien Feraud/Laurent Coulondre/Tilo Bertholo - BlackBird (The Beatles)
Apr 27, 2023 - Live Session At Studio Soult (Paris)
Siân Pottok : vocals, kamele Ngoni, arrgmt | Hadrien Feraud : Bass , arrgmt | Laurent Coulondre : piano, keys | Tilo Bertholo : drums

"Siân Pottok evokes joy and anger, departure, exile, but also resilience and peace rediscovered: obstacles are not walls, but only steps. Time, far from being an enemy, becomes a benevolent guide, gradually revealing everyone's emotional richness." Website,

"Siân Pottok is a vocalist, composer and writer, whose origins go from India-Pakistan-Congo to Belgium and Tchekoslovakia. Born in Florida, Siân grew up in Indonesia, Singapore then Belgium and finally Paris where she studied music, mainly jazz." Bio,
YouTube, Discography

BOOK RACK: FEATURED BOOK

Hiroshi Sakurazaka - All You Need Is Kill (2004) "Sakuraska’s novel will likely conjure elements from some of the best of classic science fiction. It’s a great look at day-to-day military encounters, with real world elements from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War, Richard Marcinko’s Rogue Warrior, Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, and Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. It has its own thought-provoking “warning-sign” messages found in classics like Logan’s Run and THX-1138, that adversity in the face of certain doom as in Pacific Rim, and the “what the heck is going on” feel from any number of Philip K. Dick short stories (“Paycheck” and “We Can Remember it for You Wholesale” come to mind). "     ~ Borg.com, KOBO Books

BOOK RACK: FEATURED SERIES

Kiersten White - Camelot Rising series (2019 - 2021) "An acclaimed master of the female-centric retelling turns her hand to Arthuriana. Guinevere is a mystery: an impostor princess, daughter of Merlin, and possessor of magical knowledge, she has been sent to Camelot to pose as queen and keep Arthur safe. White (Slayer, 2019, etc.) sets up an ambitious take on Arthurian lore, with many details familiar yet altered—Lancelot is a woman, Mordred is Arthur’s right hand and also very appealing, and Guinevere intends only good, although it seems as if this incarnation may still bring ruin, in this case merely by being magical in a world that has banished magic. The connective tissue of the power women wield despite being overlooked doesn’t always hold together, but the questions Guinevere asks about women and power, and the subtext that chaos is inherently feminine (the defeated Dark Queen, Guinevere, the Lady of the Lake) while Arthur represents masculinity and control, are intriguing—although this volume comes to no conclusions. "     ~ Kirkus and Amazon.com

MOVIES: FEATURED MOVIE

Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

"'Edge of Tomorrow' is less of a time travel movie than an experience movie; that statement might not make sense now, but it probably will after you’ve seen it. Based on Hiroshi Sikurazaka’s novel 'All You Need is Kill', it’s a true science fiction film, highly conceptual, set during the aftermath of an alien invasion. Maybe “extra-dimensional being invasion” is more accurate. The fierce, octopod-looking beasties known as Mimics are controlled hive-mind style by a creature that seems able to peer through time, or rupture it, or something." ~ RogerEbert.com   Link: Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow (2014) - Buy online

Original story is by Hiroshi Sakurazaka - All You Need Is Kill (2004)

CUISINE: FEATURED RESTAURANT

Belle Isle Seafood -    Located at 1 Main St, Winthrop, MA. "There’s hardly a dud on the menu. You can go with the lobster roll that’s roughly the size of your face and uses a perfectly toasted bun, the fried seafood platter that’s stuffed with more fish than the New England Aquarium, or the little fried smelts that don’t carry a hint of grease. Either way it’s going to be good, because it’s going to be fresh, pulled right out of the ocean you’re sitting next to (hopefully during the summer, when you can enjoy their outdoor picnic tables). There’s a reason we built this city next to a cold, windy sea. Belle Isle Seafood is that reason. " ~ Excerpt from thefatuation.com and Website

*The most recent featured musicians and play lists from the five Music listings on DC Bebop.   A musician listed on a DC Bebop page with an intro, is featured for 10 days with one of their songs.  Included in the play list are songs by nine other musicians in a table on DC Bebop. The songs are linked to a page (Reverbnation, Bandcamp, Soundcloud, YouTube or where ever the song can be heard). The play list is not a top 10 list. It features songs I liked and think perhaps others might appreciate the music as well.

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