Tag Archives: jazz

2015 is a good year for Art Pepper fans.

The album is an intelligent mix of standards and original material.

There is a purity in their stripped down performance, an infectious emotional honesty; this is a duo that works.

'Spirit: Then & Now' is an album filled with good listening.

Miles Davis is a legend whose life and music evokes anything but the tame and ordinary. Cheadle's film does Davis complete justice.

Allison may indeed be a certified senior, but just don’t give him that “old timer crap.” More like him isn’t all that bad.

'Cross/Ways' is an album filled with melodic warmth and cultural diversity—music to capture your attention.

'ReWrite of Spring' follows in the footsteps of those many large-scale jazz pieces that have moved jazz out of the barroom and into the concert hall.

If you've never listened to Dogg before, or you just haven't heard him in long time, now's the time - you won't ever forget the experience.

Basile is a fine guitarist; his work on the Beatles canon is both intelligent and emotionally satisfying, if not as adventurous as some.