Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters deserves recognition on the 50th anniversary of its release for the rarest of reasons. It is not only one of the many creative pinnacles in this jazz icon’s discography,
The Buffalo instrumental outfit Organ Fairchild’s sophomore release Leisure Suit is a polished slice of feel-good, funk-laced music for getting on down. The upstate New York, jazz veterans, form an
On the heels of 2022’s The New Mastersounds’ The Deplar Effect recorded at Floki Studios at Eleven Experience’s Deplar Farm and covered on these pages; we now learn that more
If ever there was a map drawn of jazz music, guitarist/composer John Scofield would be all over it. In just recent years, he’s released a tribute to Ray Charles (That’s
Green Light is the hard-working road band’s sixth full studio release and follows 2020’s Natural Born Hustler which was recorded and produced by Color Red co-owner and guitarist of The New Mastersounds, Eddie Roberts.
BBE Music is proud to present the latest J Jazz Masterclass Series reissue, 1978 soul/jazz tour de force album ’Push’ by Noriko Miyamoto. For the first time, this critically acclaimed
The New Mastersounds, while new to this writer and maybe some of you, have been plying their craft of soul and funk for over two decades now through seventeen albums.
Let’s (let us) begin by clarifying how the band Lettuce got its name. Just as we began the last sentence, it comes from “let us play” or its shorter refrain
Ten never-before-released covers that have long been staples in the live shows of The Greyboy Allstars (GBA) make up Get a Job: Music from the Original Broadcast Series Soul Dream.
Longstanding New Orleans-based funk band Galactic is in the midst of their Winter Tour 2022 and they stopped at Hollywood’s Fonda Theatre on February 18 for a Mardi Gras celebratory