[rating=8.00] The first thing you need to understand as a listener is that this is not a cover album. In fact, you may struggle to recognize some of the tunes
[rating=8.00] Singer-songwriter Jay Psaros is proof that hard work pays off. His fifth studio album, again produced by Lorne Entress, Trees Beyond the Town, was completely fan funded, with Psaros
[rating=8.00] Self-made and DIY jazz vocalist Lyn Stanley has achieved enough success now through five best-selling albums to have some fun and for the first time pay tribute to another
With his 40th studio release, The Prophet Speaks, and articles galore on the 50th anniversary of Astral Weeks, not to mention frequent touring and a rumored project with Willie Nelson,
[rating=8.00] The name Gil Evans recalls, among other things, those classic collaborations with Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, Miles Ahead, Sketches of Spain, Porgy and Bess and Quiet Nights,
[rating=8.00] The Ric and Ron record labels are as indigenous and vital to the music of New Orleans as Stax is to Memphis. It’s where Irma Thomas and Johnny Adams
[rating=8.00] Multi-Grammy winner Eddie Palmieri is releasing his second salsa album of the year, Mi Luz Mayor. Special guests include salsa iconic vocalists Gilberto Santa Rosa and Herman Olivera as
The resurging Impulse label has brought us a 2007 live performance from the double bassist, the late Charlie Haden and pianist Brad Mehldau who performed for the first time as
[rating=8.00] Much has been said lately about borders and failed alliances but this collaboration between Iconic trumpeter Randy Brecker, famed Swedish composer/arranger/conductor Mats Holmquist and Finland’s finest big band, the
[rating=10.00] Leveraging the success of the rediscovered “lost album” Both Directions at Once issued by Impulse this past June, the label has collected the iconic tenor saxophonist’s recordings for that
