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Altin Sencalar Unleashes A New Release at BOP STOP

Published 20 May, 2025 By John Chacona
Altin Sencalar - Unleashed press photo 3 by Anna Yatskevich
photocredit: Anna Yatskevich

Altin Sencalar is a big guy. A Texan by birth, he wouldn’t look out of place on the offensive line of the Dallas Cowboys football team. He has two big dogs, Navy and JJ, and they slept on the bad behind him when we chatted on a video call (note to readers: it failed to save and a lot of great direct quotes were lost).

Sencalar plays the trombone, an instrument that is associated with swaggering bluster, but when he comes to BOP STOP Saturday, you might be surprised by the subtlety that he brings to the instrument.

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“Blue-Collar” Joshua Smith Comes Home With A Solid Gold Band

Published 6 May, 2025 By John Chacona

If you know Joshua Smith only through his exploratory work with the cooperative trio Birth, you might be surprised to learn, as I did, that the saxophonist has a thriving practice playing straightahead jazz. His Friday concert at BOP STOP won’t be a standards gig, but it will show a side of the 45-year-old saxophonist that might surprise some fans.

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Countdown: What To Do, Where To Go & What To Hear, Oct. 12-18

Published 12 October, 2023 By John Chacona
Birth Josh Smith, Jeremy Bleich Joe Tomino

It’s a week for celebrations with a birthday, an anniversary and a chicken or pasta dinner on the musical menu for your mid-October listening and dining pleasure. Add a penetrating talk by one of musicology’s preeminent thinkers and public intellectuals and watch your calendar fill up. It all starts here.

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