Tag Archives: jazz

'Mohana Blues' is the kind of music that, like coffee, is an acquired taste.

'Tahdig' provides delicious music full of swirling jazz, polyrhythms, and gleaming brass accents.

'Disaster Relief' is all-out funk played with fervent passion and oodles of sonic heat.

'Running Through with the Sadness' provides delicious, heady music.

'Sacred Words' radiates velvety melodies, sinuous washes of sonic pigments, and graceful milieus.

New jazz albums with tie-ins to poetry, Puerto Rico, and Gustav Holst's 'The Planets'

'Inward' is one of those albums best described as luxuriously comfortable, which makes it worth your time and attention.

The Brazilian pianist is a master of infusing improvisational virtuosity into the spirit of a song, whether's it's by Jobim or The Doors, an original, or a Broadway classic from 'Man of La Mancha.'

The candid lyricism of Carly Simon meets the easy listening vocalese of Fiona Apple on Lyndol Descant's new release.

The Brazilian jazz pianist goes full-tilt from the start, with dense and intense rhythms, indeed a florid, Lisztian intricacy, on "To Each His Dulcinea." One listen to Elias's substitutions on the theme and you know she's playing with a full quiver of creativity as well as a twinkle in her eye.