Vocal Jazz

Stella Cole, My Funny Valentine Review

Stella Cole, My Funny Valentine Review Stella Cole’s My Funny Valentine: Classic Elegance Through Standards By Sylvannia Garutch Stella Cole’s My Funny Valentine is a three-song standards set deliberately built around a distinct jazz-vocal format. [...]
Jazz

Tom Lippincott, Ode to the Possible Review

Tom Lippincott, Ode to the Possible Review Tom Lippincott’s Ode to the Possible Through Motion By Nolan DeBuke Recurring drum figures, doubled melodies, group improvisational swells, and angular compaction and releases give Ode to the [...]

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Potter, Mehldau, Patitucci & Blake

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Josh Lawrence, Call Time Review

Josh Lawrence, Call Time Review By Sylvannia Garutch Josh Lawrence is releasing Call Time, his latest Posi-Tone Records project, with seven tracks of a broad palette of qualities and textures. The trumpeter brings a quintet for […]

Jazz

Herlin Riley, Perpetual Optimism

by Sylvannia Garutch Herlin Riley was born where jazz has its deepest roots. A native of New Orleans, Riley became a burgeoning drummer at the age of three.  Though trumpet became his primary instrument in […]

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