Pianist and composer Taylor Eigsti has a mantra of “double up” for his ninth album as a leader, Plot Armor, which follows his Grammy-winning Tree Falls. The proverbial “pulling out
Technically Acceptable is the second Blue Note release for pianist, composer, and writer Ethan Iverson, who continues to display his virtuosity and sly quirkiness in an album that includes pop-oriented
It’s only natural for Brad Mehldau to release a solo piano album comprised almost entirely of material by the Beatles.
Covering Beatles songs is certainly not new, not new to jazz, and not even new to the late Ramsey Lewis, who was during the mop head four’s heyday in the mid-sixties.
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.
The new SmallsLIVE Living Masters Series has issued Kirk Lightsey Live at Smalls Jazz Club, their second offering, following this past August’s release of vocalist Sheila Jordan’s Live at Mezzrow. As the series name implies, these recordings honor the best of iconic jazz musicians that are still with us.
Pianist and composer Emmet Cohen picks up where he left off with his 2021 Future Stride, while continuing to augment his trio with a couple of terrific horns on select tracks for Uptown in Orbit.
A stalwart on the New England blues scene for decades as a key member of both Sugar Ray & the Blue-Tones and Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters, keyboardist Anthony Geraci
Based on his fifth studio album, Origin, Joey Alexander’s gifts are no less impressive now that he’s progressed past the point of being a child prodigy. In fact, the precocious
The riveting, beyond intense epic first piece, “Autumn/Parade,” of The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert of The Cecil Taylor Unit runs for a full 88-minutes, in this digital release. That
