Jim Hynes

Saxophonist Dayna Stephens, the #1 Rising Star-Tenor in the 2019 Downbeat Critics Poll, is mostly known for playing multiple reeds in both contemporary and straight-ahead formats, only occasionally using an

Drive-by Truckers (DBTs) and ‘loud’ are practically synonymous but the 200 people who witnessed this benefit show from 2006 at Plan 9 Records must all be wearing hearing aids by

Co-founders Zev Feldman (aka “The Jazz Detective”) and Cory Weeds deliver another gem, Understanding, for mid-July’s RSD Drops on their Reel to Real label, as they return to Baltimore’s Famous

As Alice ‘Turiya’ Coltrane’s son, Ravi Coltrane, admonished, this is not a jazz album. Although Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane’s wife and musical partner, had her share of groundbreaking spiritual jazz

For his second Blue Note release, Detroit soulful saxophonist, Dave McMurray, who some have compared to Grover Washington Jr., takes a stunning turn with an album of Grateful Dead material,

This remake, Layla Revisited, of the original Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs makes so much sense. Derek Trucks takes his name from Derek & The Dominos after all.  He

Record Store Day (known this year as RSD Drops- July 17) is one we look forward to for special releases, and more particularly, the latest Resonance project. Now joining the

How many bands do you know that have been together for 50 years, where the original members are still intact?  That’s the case with the three singer-songwriters originally from Lubbock,

When most think of Cuban music, they land on The Buena Vista Social Club, which rendered several styles but primarily son and danzon. Cuba, like most places, has a rich