2021 was a very creative year as artists, frustrated by the lack of touring due to the pandemic, began to use their downtime productively, learning how to layer in parts
Blue Note Unearths Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Classic Lineup On ‘First Flight To Tokyo: The Lost 1961 Recordings’
Harold Mabern Leads Reverent and Passionate Live Session On ‘Mabern Plays Coltrane’
Various Posi-Tone Artists Salute Wayne Shorter on ‘Shorter Moments – Exploring the World of Wayne’
As we put a bow on 2021, it has been marked with over a dozen remarkable never-released albums. My guess is that this is due to two factors – the
This is the essence of a well-timed release as Christian McBride’s Insight Straight makes their annual visit to The Village Vanguard from 11/30 -12/5. This is the third recording of
Scottish songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Malcolm MacWatt weaves stories that connect Scottish heritage to America with songs that focus on both places, showing the linkage between Celtic music and Appalachian string
Just last week it was announced that John Coltrane’s iconic A Love Supreme went platinum after 56 years. Now we have one of the underrecognized innovators of jazz piano finally
If this were a film, it would be called “Raising Sand – The Sequel.” Yes, this collaboration between what we now know are two voices that work well together, not
Drummer Mike Pride takes his intense touring and two years of recording with the punk outfit MDC and twenty years later turns the band’s raucous catalog into swinging acoustic jazz.
