'Say When' is another must-have album from Smoke Sessions.
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Music Review: Antonio Sanchez – ‘Three Times Three’ and ‘The Meridian Suite’
Two new albums from the snubbed composer of the score for the Oscar-winning 'Birdman.'
Read More »Music Review: Tangos by Roger Davidson – ‘Te Extraño Buenos Aires’
While this musical approach is not particularly adventurous and retro in feel, it is lush and full-blooded; it is music that excites.
Read More »Music Review: Jeff Lorber and Chuck Loeb – ‘Bop (A CD to Help Fund the Cure for PKD)’
If this album is any indication, 'Bop' is alive and well—and still kicking backsides.
Read More »Music Review: Joan Torres’s All Is Fused – ‘The Beginning’
'The Beginning' has a very informal sound to it despite the tightness of the musicians. The songs come across as casual, as if the product of a bunch of guys jamming together on a Saturday afternoon. The result is an understated artfulness that is uncommonly vivid and starkly forceful.
Read More »Music Reviews: Brazilian and Cuban Jazz from Minas, Antonio Adolfo, and Nils Fischer
Reviewed here are fresh, new interpretations of Brazilian and Cuban jazz.
Read More »Music Review: Pascal Bokar – ‘Guitar Balafonics’
All Bokar’s passions are on display on his February release, 'Guitar Balafonics.'
Read More »Music Review: Sonia Wieder Atherton – ‘Little Girl Blue: From Nina Simone’
Close your eyes and Atherton’s cello embodies not one, but the many voices of the unique singer.
Read More »Music Reviews: Jazz Singers Times Four – Rebecca DuMaine, Michael Dees, Steve Cromity, Joanna Wallfisch
New albums from contemporary jazz singers with varying agendas.
Read More »Music Review: Mark Weinstein – ‘In Jerusalem’
Music is music, and in the hands of the right musician any and all music is ripe for creative renewal.
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