Some of today’s most aggressively, spiritually oriented saxophonists are based in London as evidenced by Shabaka Hutchings, Nubya Garcia, Massimo Magee, to name a few. Add Zhenya Strigalev to that
This is a brilliant document of Charles Lloyd’s 80th Birthday concert, performed in his home venue, the Lobero in Santa Barbara, CA. The 8: Kindred Spirits (Live from the Lobero)
Dave Simonett fronts the popular acoustic roots band Trampled by Turtles and another side project Dead Man Winter. He’s a songwriter with one of those special crooning voices. Its beauty
If you didn’t hear the 2016 breakout album from Shabaka & The Ancestors, you may still be familiar with Shabaka Hutchings who leads Sons of Kemet and is a member
Considered by most to be Duke Ellington’s greatest work, Black, Brown & Beige, the sprawling history of African -Americans has been, recorded several times over the years either in its
The album title, Cinema Swing, takes its name from the famed, tiny Cinema Bar located on Sepulveda Blvd. in Culver City, just south of Los Angeles, a place this writer
Texas guitar legend Will Sexton, younger brother of Charlie Sexton, grew up in in San Antonio and played with greats like Doug Sahm and Stevie Ray Vaughan as a teenager.
Talented singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, The Mastersons, tap Shooter Jennings to produce their fourth album, No Time for Love Songs. The Mastersons, Chris Masterson and Eleanor Whitmore, are one of roots
Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer Jonathan Wilson had set a high bar for Dixie Blur, coming off his widely acclaimed 2018 Rare Birds and two previously hailed solo albums. He’d taken that
This is an unexpected turn by acclaimed vibraphonist Warren Wolf, acknowledged mostly as a traditionalist and a successor to forbearers Milt Jackson and Bobby Hutcherson. Here the Baltimore-based vibes man
