Jazz

by Sylvannia Garutch Drummer Jack DeJohnette has been smacking brass and skin with a jazz beat for eight decades. Always searching for something new, DeJohnette has created yet another group: the collaborative ensemble he calls, […]

by Sylvannia Garutch Twenty years after guitarist Peter Bernstein released his album Signs of Life with the backing quartet of pianist Brad Mehldau, bassist Christian McBride, and drummer Gregory Hutchinson, Signs LIVE! on Smoke Sessions […]

by Jon Ward The University of Central Florida’s Flying Horse Big Band has just released their eighth album on Flying Horse Records entitled, Big Man On Campus.  Directed by saxophonist, composer and arranger Jeff Rupert, […]

by Jon Ward A debut offering with a line-up that features players like; Christian Sands, Michael Dease, Ulysses Owens, Jr., certainly will make you take a second look, but even with this stellar backing cast […]

by Raul da Gama There is no substitute with an album full of luscious, no-nonsense swinging music played with fierce dedication to the idiom, unadorned chiseling of classic Jazz tempo; juxtapositioning of rhythm close to, […]

by Raul da Gama There is absolutely nothing that one should be wary about when embarking on a musical adventure with Ray Lyon. He captains a svelte ship with a crew of three, appropriately entitled […]

by Raul da Gama Every once and awhile a record comes across the critic’s desk that so overwhelms him or her that a long pause for breath is in order. But one has to usually […]

by Ferell Aubre It should come as no surprise that some of the most viscerally exciting music should come from parts unknown – not just as far removed as Southern India and Azerbaijan, but more […]

by Nolan Debuke Italian pianist and composer Alessandro Fadini combines his talents as a well-educated mathematician and a self-taught pianist, to produce a unique sound on his debut album, A Dark Stormy Day.  This is […]

by Raul da Gama Jeff Rupert and pianist Richard Drexler shine in all their radiant creativity on Imagination.  Creating an unmatched nimbleness of sound, though a stripped-down duet performance, the full and wholesome interaction of […]