Resonance Records: On a Mission

Everybody’s got a mission these days. From the apt: Religious groups, humanitarian organizations, nature conservancies, to the questionably apt: mega- corporations, carpet steam-cleaners, and scrap metal -gatherers.  Everyone who wants your money seems to be mission-driven. I’m not here to judge, it just seems the domain between noble purpose and marketing is becoming more ambiguous. […]

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John Raymond and his Minnesota Quartet in the Dunsmore Room, April 26

“Electrifyingly new and strangely familiar at the same time…with his mix of modern sounds and old-fashioned feeling, Raymond is steering jazz in the right direction.”––Downbeat Magazine Even as a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, trumpeter John Raymond exuded an unusual degree of commitment to his craft, apparent in his playing with Jeremy Walker’s […]

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