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Preview Jazz to the People.

click to hear the podcast from May 6, 2010
Jeff Lofton Quartet +1 and Jeff Lofton's Electric Thang
Live from Studio 1A on KUT 90.5 FM
Music with Jay Trachtenberg - with Music Director Jeff McCord hosting
Austin Kimble on piano, Chris Jones on bass, Masumi Jones on drums, and Tony Bray on sax

Jeff Lofton's
Jazz to the People

Austin Chronicle Top 9 Austin Albums of 2009

KUT 90.5 FM Austin's NPR affiliate
Top 10 Albums of 2009: DJ Picks

Now available at Amazon.com, Itunes or CDBaby.com or in Austin at independent record stores.
The self-produced album includes nine original compositions by Jeff Lofton
and interpretations of Georgia on My Mind and Crazy

"... terrific ..." - Austin American-Statesman

"... hits the bull's-eye on this sterling local debut that digs a deep groove ... crafted a sound largely around Davis' formative quintet of the late 1950s. ... embraces the blues and swings passionately ... reinforces the Miles connection with the deft use of muted trumpet on soulful strutters ... blows reminiscent of Lee Morgan's Blue Note hits of the mid-1960s. ... a delightfully swingin' affair."
- Jay Trachtenberg, The Austin Chronicle, Texas Platters, Music Review

Podcast of JLQ on
KUT 90.5 KUT.org
Music with Jay Trachtenberg

Jazz to the People includes
Alex Coke on sax,
Red Young on piano,
Chris Jones on bass
and Masumi Jones on drums.

Featuring singer/songwriter
Danielle Howle on Crazy..
- “...an extraordinary mind, a southern storyteller with a gorgeous sense of melody that should be pouring out of stereos everywhere.
She is one to be treasured.”
- New York Times

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Podcast of JLQ on KLBJfm.com Dudley and Bob in the Morning

The Jeff Lofton Trio performs on KEYE TV's We are Austin Live.

Music with Jay Trachtenberg
KUT 90.5 (1.15.09)
Click here for the podcast of Jeff Lofton Quartet live from Studio 1A
with Alex Coke on sax, Rich Harney on piano, Pat Harris on bass, and Masumi Jones on drums
performing "Georgia," "Pfrancing" and "Shana's Song."

Jeff Lofton Day in Austin, Texas
Click here to see the mayor's proclamation from January 15, 2009, and hear "Shana's Song"
with Mark Nelms on bass and Masumi Jones on drums performing for Austin City Council.

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AUSTIN MUSIC VOLUME EIGHT is the 209 compilation from the Live Music Capital of the World.
"Shana's Song," a Jeff Lofton original was selected for the compilation. The Jeff Lofton Quartet performed at the CD release party in February at Antone's along with Drew Smith, Kat Edmonson, Guy Forsyth, Dan Dyer, Jeff Lofton, Randy Weeks. The CD can be found online at austintexas.org, or at The Austin Visitor Center
and Waterloo Records.

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Jazz Therapy
Jeff Lofton Quartet
with Roland Haynes on piano,
Reggie Gison on bass
and Kenneth Salters on drums.
Recorded at SC State College, 2005.

"Jeff's trumpet flies onto tracks
like singing birds into morning sunshine.
… One of the best trumpet players
in South Carolina."
The State, Columbia, South Carolina

"Jazz Therapy draws on the old-school
be-bop styles of Miles Davis and
Dizzy Gillespie while also employing
some of the adventurous tendencies
and structures of John Coltrane."
Free Times, Columbia, South Carolina