Marc Cary is one of the finest jazz pianists working today. Abbey Lincoln's music brings out the best in him.
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Music Review: Deborah Shulman & The Ted Howe Trio – “Get Your Kicks: The Music & Lyrics of Bobby Troup”
Deborah Shulman breathes new life into the music of Bobby Troup.
Read More »Music Review: Global Noize – “Sly Reimagined”
Global Noize puts a contemporary spin on the music of Sly and the Family Stone, alive with the excitement of innovation.
Read More »Book Review: Jazz: New York in the Roaring Twenties by Robert Nippoldt and Hans-Jurgen Schaal
An award-winning German coffee table book on jazz is now available in English.
Read More »Music Review: Perry Beekman – “So In Love”
Perry Beekman sings Cole Porter as the composer meant his songs to be sung. It's a debut album long overdue.
Read More »Music Review: Bob James and David Sanborn – “Quartette Humaine”
After a quarter of a century, Sanborn and James join on a new album.
Read More »Music Review: The Colorplates – “Agony and Ecstasy”
This new compilation may not make The Colorplates champs, but if it evokes for others the same nostalgia for lost youth that it evoked for this reviewer, it will make for a lot of happy campers.
Read More »Music Reviews: Samantha Carlson – Day In-Day Out and Marlene VerPlanck – Ballads…mostly
New albums from Samantha Carlson and Marlene VerPlanck are both collections of tunes that deserve some attention.
Read More »Music Review: Bennett & Brubeck – The White House Sessions, Live 1962
Recorded at a time when Brubeck and Bennett were at the top of their game, the album not only highlights their individual talents, but demonstrates the kind of electric performances you can get when truly great artists get together and feed off each other.
Read More »Book Review: Skios by Michael Frayne
Having written what may well be the finest and certainly the funniest theatrical farce of the last half of the 20th Century, Noises Off, Michael Frayne has now gone and done the same for the novel. Skios may not have the slamming doors, but even without them it is one …
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