It’s not often when the co-leader of a quintet may have the least recognized name in the unit, but maybe it’s just because most of us, like this writer, are
One of many highlights from the 2019 Newport Jazz Festival was the opening morning performance from the vocal jazz quartet, The Royal Bopsters, which also featured Sheila Jordan who now
Trio Grande is the debut that unites three of the most inventive, exciting, and accomplished musicians working at the interface of New York’s contemporary musical culture. British-born saxophonist Will Vinson, Israeli
Phoenix’s famous blues club, The Rhythm Room, run by traditional blues harmonicist Bob Corritore (originally from Chicago) has provided him the opportunity to record sessions with the club’s many performers. Over
As stated in another outlet the first time this writer saw Chris Stapleton live was in a hotel room for a radio taping with his then band, The SteelDrivers, a
Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Randall Bramblett remains for far too many an under the radar artist, even after making, with Pine Needle Fire (New West), his twelfth studio album. In addition
The ever-prolific guitarist Nels Cline is back with his avant-garde aggregation, the Nels Cline Singers, for their seventh recording, first as a band and Cline’s third with the Blue Note
When one sees the words ‘Chicago’ and ‘blues’ the natural tendency is to think of electric 12-bar Chicago blues but veteran singer-songwriter Mike Felten brings a more eclectic mix that
Jupiter Conjunct is saxophonist/composer Aaron Burnett & The Big Machine follow-up to 2019’s acclaimed Anomaly, this time moving into the extra-terrestrial as many jazz forbears such as Sun Ra, John
With acclaimed tenor saxophonist/ EWI player Bob Mintzer doubling as a member of the four decades standing Yellow Jackets (of which he is a three decade member) and as conductor
