Persistence pays off. Singer-songwriter Mike Younger began this project now titled, Burning the Bigtop Down, in January of 2001, over 20 years ago. The original tracks, the same nine Younger
Trumpeter Terence Blanchard has widened his scope considerably in the last decade, receiving two Grammy nominations for his film scores and as a two-time opera composer whose opera Fire Shut Up
Nashville-based guitar great Robben Ford issues Pure, his first totally instrumental studio album since 1997’s Tiger Walk. As we’ve come to expect, Ford is not tied directly to just one
It’s difficult to believe that Yellow is the debut full-length for UK rising star of the burgeoning London jazz-not-jazz scene, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and bandleader Emma-Jean Thackray who has already established
Seth Glier isn’t the only songwriter to take pen to paper during the pandemic, but he may be one of the few to come away from the experience with a
Deafheaven seem to have completed their sonic transition. The band, which formally sat firmly abut, if noth entirely within, the realm of black metal, began their progression with 2018’s Ordinary
The brilliant singer-songwriter Malcolm Holcombe has issued 16 or more albums since the ‘90s and yet for many he remains undiscovered. His gruff, resonant, cigarette-burned voice is not made for
The first time this writer saw the title Another Side of John Coltrane, some initial confusion set in because there is an Impulse! collection of John Coltrane ballads called The
In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Queens of Swords, the new album from Typhoid Rosie, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image
It’s nearly impossible to think about Peanuts without immediately thinking of the iconic songs that accompany the animated specials. It is well known that Vince Guaraldi is responsible for the
