In an earlier post, we were elated to announce that we placed third in the 2016 NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. As it turns out, after a brief recount, we actually tied for first place.

We were mentioned (very, very briefly) in The Village Voice, in the unambiguously titled "High Notes: This Year Was Terrible, but at Least Local Jazz Labels Are Thriving."

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In the last year, a missionary-like zeal has taken hold of a handful of independent jazz labels dotting the five boroughs. Some, like Harlem's Biophilia, are run out of apartments. Others operate in modest offices...
...Other indie labels in Manhattan — HighNote/Savant, Palmetto, to name a couple — sit closer, like Motéma does, to straight-ahead jazz. But Brooklyn's AUM Fidelity, Northern Spy, and Yeah Yeah Records, for instance, tend to veer toward the serrated edges. And like Biophilia, many of these were founded by jazz musicians. Almazan is a pianist best known for playing in Terence Blanchard's band; last year the inventive 25-year-old saxophonist Kevin Sun launched Endectomorph Music in Brooklyn. [emphasis all mine]

“I just had a lot of laughs in me, man,” Robin Baytas says, his laughter echoing those of his three other bandmates. The four make up Great on Paper, a local band that derives its music from jazz and just released their debut album. The topic currently eliciting their amusement is the rehearsed introduction that they are delivering to the camera. As the band members chuckle, classical music seeps through the walls of a corridor in the New England Conservatory. Despite the orchestra’s considerable volume, the members of Great on Paper continue to capture all attention during the interview with their vibrant dialogue and interactions—a dynamism that carries into their songs. [continued]

GOP spoke with The Harvard Crimson last weekend before rehearsing for our CD release at The Jazz Gallery. Read the full profile here.