New release of 1990s jazz for summer listening

Focus: The trio with René Mogensen on Tenor Saxophone, Jim Labita on piano and Terry Newman on bass was active in various venues in the New York City area in the mid- and late-1990s. This new release is a 2026 remastering of archived recordings from 1996.

If you like Focus you may also like other RM World Jazz recordings:

Where Do We Go?: René Mogensen (saxophone) and Frank Roberts (piano) recorded in Aarhus, Denmark.

Jazz in Culture: The René Mogensen Quintet recorded in 1994 in Upstate New York.

Waves: a large-scale work by René for the Klixbüll Dance Company production premiered in New York City in 1996.

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We're Rene Mogensen and Leila Rasheed, a composer and children's author. Wassard Elea provides affordable, informal retreat spaces for artists, scholars and other creatives who want to work in the beautiful surroundings of the Cilento National Park, in the south of Italy.

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