Jeremy James Meyer has managed to channel the ghosts of Jerry Jeff Walker, John Prine and Guy Clark on his latest, Alive & OK, while also coming off as much
A musician of less intensity and ingenuity than pianist/composer Brad Mehldau might well be overwhelmed in performing with an orchestra. But if Variations on a Melancholy Theme proves anything, it
It’s kind of amazing how fifty-two years ago an album was released by a group of non-professional girls who liked to hang out with rock stars, and made no other
Okay, it’s not as if pianist Todd Cochran just walked away from recording fifty years ago and made a sudden return. The recording hiatus itself is around ten years, Cochran
Julian Lage makes a major statement by issuing his seventh solo album on Blue Note Records, perhaps the most hallowed label in the history of modern jazz. The very title
Westward Bound! offers previously unreleased recordings from underrecognized tenor bop giant Harold Land and is being issued for June 12 Record Store Day. As such, it will follow a sequence
What’s it say about a band when a collection of outtakes from their previous studio effort is superior to that album itself? When it’s Lukas Nelson & Promise of the
The God of Mischief leaps to television in a stunner of an episode one.
In a life cut too short too abruptly, Tim Buckley was also just a bit overly idiosyncratic to ascend into the upper echelons of contemporary folk music. Yet, as much
Acclaimed bassist-composer and bandleader Charnett Moffett, as he’s been prone to do throughout his storied career, refines his sound once again for New Love, his seventh leader release for Motema
