American Pianists Award Winner Emmet Cohen makes his debut for Mack Avenue Records, with some tunes, involving the stride piano music from a century ago. Yet, as the title Future
Like many, this writer was first introduced to multi-instrumentalist Jared Tyler through his longtime work as trusted sideman for singer-songwriter Malcolm Holcombe. Now Tyler leads a collaborative project with fellow
This trio, The Burnt Pines, first came together in a Lisbon, Portugal recording studio in the summer of 2018, with two of them having met prior to that at Boston’s
Recorded in July 2019, just two months before the passing of great pianist and composer Harold Mabern, Thank You, Mr. Mabern! features the leader, bassist Leon Lee Dorsey, and drummer
This is the way to kick off a new record label; assemble some of the strongest names in jazz and present an eclectic set of styles worthy of the stellar
Prolific songwriter M. Ward’s Think of Spring is a collection of songs originally recorded by Billie Holiday – a muse to Ward and many others. Although Lady Day’s songs have
2020 marked the most jazz reviews ever for Glide. Among the challenges from the pandemic, the inspiration from the Black Lives Matter movement, and an Election year, artists made many
Even the most casual jazz fan likely has a copy of the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s 1959 record Time Out in their collection. It’s long been one of the highest-selling jazz
Composer/pianist/producer, Lisa Kristine Hilton is back after almost exactly a year later with her follow-up to December 2019’s Chalkboard Destiny that featured her longstanding bandmates: Rudy Royston on drums, and Luques Curtis on
Pianist/composer Eric Reed delivers one of the year’s most deeply spiritual, soulful works with For Such A Time Like This, written against the backdrop of the pandemic, social unrest, and
