Album Reviews

As connoisseurs know, the legendary pianist Oscar Peterson (OP) was well known for his trios but this live performance from Zurich in 1971, On a Clear Day

Craft Recordings is reissuing the GRAMMY Award-winning Radio Music Society with hi-res digital and 180-gram vinyl for Esperanza Spalding’s 2012 release, now celebrating its Tenth anniversary.

Adeem The Artist is just now hitting their stride and turning out a remarkable collection of songs on White Trash Revelry.

Recorded over the course of six nights at the end of a twenty-date stand, the roughly four hours of performances that comprise Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Live at the Fillmore – 1997 document a transformative occasion for the group.

The historical value equals the musical value on GarciaLive: Volume #19 Oakland Coliseum Arena October 31st, 1992.

In the latest Wannabe, artist Chris Prunckle offers his illustrated commentary on Will Hoge’s new album Wings On My Shoes, in his signature six-panel comic strip form. Click on the image for full resolution (best viewed on desktop):

The 92-year-old living legend, pianist Ahmad Jamal, a perfectionist of the highest order, has countless live performances that never made it to record – now Emerald City Nights Sees an official release.

Lenny Lashley’s Gang Of One has managed to create some of their best work on Five Great Egrets, his latest LP of folk punk anthems.

Beninese guitarist and longtime Herbie Hancock collaborator, Lionel Loueke, put his stamp on his mentor’s tunes with his 2020 HH – and now they are remixed.

Craft Recordings is reissuing Silverstein’s ‘Arrivals & Departures’ as on vinyl for Black Friday Record Store Day.

With their new album ‘Again, Again, Again’, Pittsburgh band Buffalo Rose incorporate bluegrass and folk into their beautiful harmonies.

With 2019’s breakthrough Titanic Rising, Weyes Blood shifted her career onto a higher plane. The follow-up, And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow, cements her status as a must her grandiose artist as the soaring song structures,

Memphis-based singer-songwriter Brian Blake is here with his debut album, Book of Life, but has already achieved some notoriety as a songwriter, having won the Songwriter of the Year in 2021 by the Memphis Songwriters Association for “Move on J.D.,” one of the songs included on this effort.

Neil Young  & Crazy Horse’s World Record is not all that different from the foursome’s previous two albums, 2019’s Colorado and last year’s Barn. That’s to say it’s mostly a lowkey and informal piece of recording

On Jaguar Sound, Adrian Quesada funnels those influences into a slinky, bumping, full-length instrumental release that bubbles like a bong. 

Charles Lloyd long considered himself a ‘searcher of sound’ and his last of the three trio outings, Trios: Sacred Thread, certainly is a testament to that descriptor.

Juba Lee is the follow-up for saxophonist Avram Fefer’s quartet to 2019’s Testament. It’s alive, edgy, and engaging as one would expect from the musicians that comprise the unit,

James Houlahan once again teams with Fernando Perdomo, Danny Frankel and Scarlet Rivera on his sixth studio album Beyond the Borders, with songs that range from perseverance to edgy stories to hopeful beginnings

Dad/and/Me, out November 18 on Rounder Records, offers up an intimate look at Billy String’s traditional roots with some raw and emotive renditions of bluegrass and country music’s most time-honored material.

On their latest LP On The Other Side, San Francisco-based band The Stone Foxes carry forward that blues-infused swagger rock.