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Flurry of New Christmas/Holiday Albums Heralds the Season
From Idina Menzel to Earth, Wind & Fire, the season is busting out all over with new Christmas albums for your holiday-party playlist.
Read More »Music Review: Chelsey Green and the Green Project – ‘The Green Room’
A collection of appealing original compositions and arrangements that showcase Green’s unique twist on violin, viola and contemporary jazz.
Read More »Music Reviews: Hendrik Meurkens and Misha Tsiganov, Gary Gray, Jason Paul Curtis
Three new albums show the diversity of contemporary jazz.
Read More »Music Review: Sophisticated Lady – ‘Sophisticated Lady Jazz Quartet’
The quartet clearly demonstrates there is life in tradition yet.
Read More »Music Review: Storm Large – ‘Le Bonheur’
This eclectic collection proves that even with her rough attitudinal edges, this vampy blues singer is an interpreter of the top rank.
Read More »Music Review: Indie Roundup – Jeff Ellis, The Villains, Anna Wilson
Three new albums in different styles all hark back to the 1970s in different ways.
Read More »Music Review: Jimmy McIntosh – ‘Jimmy McIntosh and…’
McIntosh, with a little help from his friends (including Ronnie Wood and John Scofield), delivers a six-string master class.
Read More »Music Review: Ann Hampton Callaway – ‘From Sassy to Divine: The Sarah Vaughan Project’
Callaway’s Sarah Vaughan tribute album is no attempt at cheap imitation.
Read More »Music Review: John Coltrane – ‘The Prestige Recordings’
The legend of John Coltrane begins here.
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