Jazz boasts an iconic history of piano trios but clearly the nearly 25-year run of pianist Bill Charlap, bassist Peter Washington and drummer Kenny Washington ranks them as one the
Leveraging the success of his Grammy-nominated 2020 All Rise and timed for the Holiday season with a couple of Christmas songs, Gregory Porter issues a double CD – Still Rising
Even until recently this writer always thought of Nicholas Payton as a talented trumpeter in the New Orleans tradition but as Payton has proved on previous releases. he’s become quite
Prolific bassist and composer Michael Feinberg issues his eighth album as a leader with Hard Times, a layered and eclectic response to the pandemic, rendered by an impressive cast of
Much has already been written about John Coltrane’s never-issued A Love Supreme – Live in Seattle, easily the most talked-about album released in 2021, and delayed a couple of weeks
We expect original, inventive, mostly improvised music from one of the world’s more unique and acknowledged guitar masters, Lionel Loueke, but Close Your Eyes finds him treading traditional jazz standards
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Louis Armstrong’s passing at the age of 69 in 1971. His legend continues to grow even today and his influence of jazz and
MULTI-GRAMMY® Award-winning trumpeter and composer Brian Lynch is releasing Brian Lynch Songbook Vol. 1: Bus Stop Serenade, as the first in a series of “Songbooks” intended to reclaim the many original compositions that Lynch
This live date with San Francisco tenor saxophonist Tod Dickow has Charged Particles and Dickow in a heartfelt tribute to the late saxophonist Michael Brecker who passed at the youthful
‘ Jazz royalty bleeds all over this esteemed septet who deliver their sixth album with Look Out! On the UK’s Gearbox label. The seven members are today’s essence of hard
