St. Paul & the Broken Bones reprise the light psychedelia and experimental R&B of 2022’s The Alien Coast with their latest, Angels in Science Fiction. The album is based on a
Jazz fans will likely recognize the above names as Philadelphia musicians. Sure, it would have been easier to represent the six as the Temple Jazz Sextet, as they are often
Recent recordings from William Bell and Lee Fields perhaps suggest a soul revival. For many the timeless music never disappeared but this new generation of digital listeners didn’t grow up
William Bell, the man who wrote so many of the great hits, including “Born Under a Bad Sign” for Albert King, is in the midst of a career resurgence, having won
It seemed inevitable that saxophonist and composer Walter Smith III, who has produced and appeared as a sideman on several Blue Note projects, would eventually join the stable of the
Harpist and composer Brandee Younger turned heads and achieved a Grammy nomination for her 2021 Impulse! debut Somewhere Different and follows up that effort with Brand New Life which is mostly inspired by the work of pioneering harpist and composer Dorothy Ashby,
What began as a plan for a live performance at London’s Barbican in honor of the 50th anniversary of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew in early 2020, inevitably postponed by the pandemic evolved into this massive 2LP project London Brew.
This is Ropeadope’s fifth installment of their acclaimed Experiment series. The leader, pianist Greg Spero (Spirit Fingers), very emphatically says that these are not bonus tracks from 2022’s The Chicago Experiment.
Stars Enough to Guide Me is Jono Manson;s eleventh solo project and his debut for Blue Rose Records – continuing his genre blurring catalog
For guitar maestro, roots music master, and producer Steve Dawson the pandemic meant ‘time to get busy.’ Eyes Closed, Dreaming is his third of the ‘pandemic trilogy,’ all released in the space of twelve months, and all three covered on these pages.
