People, the first collaboration between powerhouse vocalist Hinda Hoffman and Chicago’s near-legendary Soul Message Band is the second installment in this writer’s self-dubbed “year of the organ-led bands.” Yes, 2022
Mestizo, his fifth album as a leader, may well be rising saxophonist/composer/arranger/educator Diego Rivera’s crowning achievement to date. The Michigan-born and raised and now Associate Director of Jazz Studies at
Jamil Rashad, who performs under the moniker Boulevards, follows his 2020 EP, Brother! with this full-length Electric Cowboy: Born in Carolina, which teems with a plethora of guests. This is
From this perch, 2022 is beginning to look like the year of the organ-led bands. Leading the pack is the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio which follows last year’s smash, I
Ethan Iverson, pianist, composer, and writer, has been on a wide-ranging explorative journey since in 2017 leaving the immensely popular Bad Plus, the group he co-founded in 2000. An artist
Just as we said about The Delines’ The Imperial in 2019, an album that graced The Glide 20, in closing the review with “candidate for one of this year’s strongest
Perhaps the first thing you’ll notice about the headline is the contradiction in terms with a band debuting with the title “Greatest Hits.” Yet, because these veterans of the Seattle
Legendary saxophonist Azar Lawrence takes a different point of view than most regarding our two years mired in this pandemic. Rather than bemoan the losses, both human and financial, Lawrence
Bill O’Connell’s A Change Is Gonna Come is ideally timed as the pianist, composer, and arranger is fresh off a Grammy nomination for ‘Best Arrangement (Instrumental or A Capella)’ for the
Saxophonist Mark Lockheart has been on the vanguard of British jazz for four decades now, one surge in the ‘80s and the other here in the 2000s. Yet, his bent
