Kendrick Scott Oracle continues his multi-layered, unified jazz vision with his fourth album, the second for Blue Note, the cleverly named A Wall Becomes a Bridge. Like his previous 2015
Matt Lorenz, aka Suitcase Junket paints characters in various states of reverie: leaning on jukeboxes, loitering on dancefloors, lying on the bottom of empty swimming pools in the sun, all with
It wasn’t until Lyle Lovett released Step Inside This House, and album that included no less than four songs from Texas songwriter Walter Hyatt that many of us first became
Most of us came to John Coltrane through “My Favorite Things,” Giant Steps, A Love Supreme, or perhaps even Kind of Blue. From there we worked our way back or
Andrew Bird may be tongue-in-cheek about the title, My Finest Work Yet, but it’s a little humor, a wink of sorts, in our struggle to find the moral compass in
The parallels between the lost-way-too-soon Chicago blues vocalist, the late Michael Ledbetter and the blues influenced born-and-raised Chicago vocalist Shawn James seems impossible to ignore as we consider James’ fourth
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, called by some “The architect of a new commercially viable fusion” and “Jazz’s young style God,” continues to forge new ground. Each time the New Orleans-based
Not only are the British coming, but make no mistake, The Comet Is Coming (TCIC) too. The spiritual music made by John and Alice Coltrane and Pharaoh Sanders in the
Tom Russell may well be America’s most prolific and criminally underrecognized songwriter with nearly forty albums. Yet, his recent string of albums, most notably his 2015 epic masterpiece Rose of
Back for her second solo album, powerhouse vocalist Sarah Potenza is intent on empowering women and, for that matter, all of us, on her Road to Rome. It follows her
