Joe Henry’s stunning, dark, poetic The Gospel According to Water, as many may know, was written and recorded in the wake of an alarming cancer diagnosis. It’s an album that
John Hiatt took the stage, smiled, and offered “How ya doing? It’s great to be back” to a respectful, attentive sold-out Sellersville Theater (PA) audience, many of whom were well
One look at the colorful visage of Lulu Fall on the cover of Between Two Worlds suggests she’s not your typical jazz vocalist. In fact, pop her CD into iTunes
Saxophonist T.K. Blue, known earlier in his career as Talib Kibwe, dedicates The Rhythms Continue, an expansive suite of 19 tracks to his long-time bandleader and mentor, NEA Jazz Master
On these pages, we reviewed the pianist/composer/vocalist/bandleader Jon Batiste’s first album culled from his six-night residency in the Fall of 2018 at NYC’s famed Village Vanguard, Anatomy of Angels, which
Picture two young African-American men and focus on their band name, Black Violin. So much is said in just two words. Surely, their last album, entitled Stereotypes, puts it right
This writer would be among the first to admit that The Mavericks are one of roots music’s elite live bands. Yet, there’s too often been a sameness and blandness to
The most striking aspect of Harry Connick Jr.’s tribute to Cole Porter, True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter, is the direct sensuality of Porter’s songs. Connick recognizes this and
This is the third time the husband and wife team of Grammy-winning trumpeter and fusion pioneer Randy Brecker and his composing/ sax playing wife Ada Rovatti have appeared together on
Fresh off their last year’s Grammy-nominated Here in Babylon, it was finally the right time for Texas-bred, California-based Teresa James and her band, The Rhythm Tramps to capture their live
