Beyond the headline, we should also mention John Leventhal as composer, arranger, and recording engineer, as he is certainly a musical polymath with few peers. The six-time Grammy winner now
Poland/France-based Kinga Glyk has amassed a huge following for her bass covers of such popular artists such as Eric Clapton, Bruno Mars, and others, yet her new album Real Life
Technically Acceptable is the second Blue Note release for pianist, composer, and writer Ethan Iverson, who continues to display his virtuosity and sly quirkiness in an album that includes pop-oriented
Diddley, Sly Stone, Tower of Power, Gold Blood, Etta James, Billy Preston, Santana, Paul Butterfield, Mickey Hart, Babatunde Olatunji, Kitaro, Lee Oskar, and Zigaboo, not to mention blockbuster film scores
Rather than provide our usual detailed reviews of these never-before-released and/or reissued jazz recordings, we will instead provide a summary of each in alphabetical order by artist. While we see
The semi-annual Exit Zero Jazz Festival held November 10-12, 2023, in the nation’s oldest ocean resort, Cape May, NJ featured second-line parades, the usual loyal, enthusiastic jazz audiences, and a
Great collaborators know how to sustain momentum. We praised the first musical meeting of singer-songwriter Terry Klein and producer, engineer, guitarist, and songwriter Thomm Jutz on Klein’s 2022 Good Luck,
When an artist says that he lives to make music, it can often be a throwaway line but in the case of legendary Texas singer-songwriter Jon Dee Graham, that statement
Afton Wolfe is the son-in-law of veteran Nashville songwriter L.H. Halliburton and thus has better access to that burgeoning catalog than others. He selected just these seven, a prime crop
The Blue Note/Third Man partnership may well have saved their best for the fifth and final installment – Grant Green’s late arriving but nonetheless legendary Live at Club Mozambique. The