Tag Archives: jazz

This memorable set from Dizzy Gillespie's longtime drummer is one of the best small-group jazz albums of recent vintage, full of rhythmic play and meaty assertiveness with a Latin lilt.

'Una Noche con Ruben Blades' is superb. If you’re into stellar music, fluent and elegant, then this is the album you’ve been seeking.

'Coming Home' by Justin Kauflin is wonderfully wrought, infused with scrumptious colors and rippling jazz textures.

What makes ARJUN so special is their improvisational skills, as an elusive chemical bond assumes sway, somehow making them prescient.

'Woven Threads' is glorious, defying description by means of adjectives like superb, stellar, lush, gorgeous, brilliant, and superlative.

Saxophonists Peter and Will Anderson launch their 'Songbook Summit' on great American songwriters with a tribute to Irving Berlin featuring singer Molly Ryan.

'So New York' is grand! This Steven Blane album is full of vintage jazz/pop aromas that give off tantalizing wisps of elusive familiarity similar to the heady music of the ‘40s and ‘50s.

'Terminal Velocity' radiates sonic brio, graceful energy, and primal momentum of imminent majesty.

'Say Yeah!! Live at the Blue Nile' is tremendous. Water Seed certainly deliver the goods on this album.

Some excellent big band recordings have come out recently, proving this storied and lively jazz subgenre continues to sizzle all these decades after the heydays of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, and Glenn Miller.