Rob Laufer, L.A.-based sideman, producer and songwriter-for-hire, as well as being the musical director of the renowned Wild Honey Orchestra is stepping forth with his first album, The Floating World, in
Having just seen the exciting jazz-funk-dance collective Mwenso & The Shakes open this year’s Newport Jazz Festival, it’s fair to say that a recording will only do partial justice to
Love the Moment with Oscar Hernández and Alma Libre is an ensemble recording by the bandleader of the three-time GRAMMY® Winning Spanish Harlem Orchestra. One of the true giants of Latin jazz, the
This writer has two impressions of rising saxophonist Ben Flocks. The visual impression is a barefoot, casually clad Flocks bouncing around the stage with his playful bandmates in Sammy Miller
Fresh off his first win for the 2019 BMA for Best Acoustic Album (with Joe Louis Walker and Giles Robson), after multiple nominations, keyboardist master Bruce Katz goes alone on
Bobby Rush is more than a living legend. He is a living miracle. At 85 years old he not only continues to tour but still has the dancing moves that
One of many appealing aspects of Idaho-based Eilen Jewell’s music across her previous seven albums has been the great guitar work of Jerry Miller. This, her eighth album, and first
The genre-hopping Taylor McFerrin keeps good company and is a quick study. Love’s Last Chance, his second full-length and first since his 2014 debut Early Riser, is the first with
Cancel the Sun is the third and most aggressively sounding recording from a band led by co-leaders with rich pedigrees. Kami Thompson is the daughter of folk-rock royalists Richard and
When most people think of vintage Chicago blues record labels, Chess, Delmark, Kent, Veejay and others pop to the top of the list. For those folks, collectors, and intent followers
