Those of us of a certain age will smile knowingly at Marina Rocks’ clever reference, a few minutes into “It’s All Messed Up,” the...

Immensely enjoying my immersion into Fortune Cookie , Jangus Kangus’ fourth overall recording but first on a real indie label (Hand...

Now it’s hard for me to be fully objective about the fiery guitarist, singer, storyteller/songwriter and rumbling good troublemaker Eric...

The last time I had the privilege of immersing into Lisa Swerdlow’s thoughtfully soulful, highly imaginative musical world for a review...

Though Refuge, Mitch Towne’s long awaited debut album as a leader, is named after the moody, at times fretful, furious and dynamically...

Though the cover of highly Marilyn Kleinberg’s debut album Let Your Heart Lead the Way reads, “Featuring Will Galison,” it’s significant...

Truly a musical citizen of the world, Chilean born and bred acoustic classical guitarist Patricio Morales received guitar training at the...

When UNLV Jazz Ensemble 1 tells us via the title of their stellar, high octane, spiritedly arranged album that it’s time to Let the Good...

Since the German powerhouse WDR Big Band began recording its own albums and collaborating with jazz greats in the early 80s, they’ve...

Having covered ambient new age music for several decades, I’ve found it easy to get complacent and just assume that artists who weave...

There are so many magnificent entry points into Lisa Michelle Anderson’s the Americana/folk/rock aesthetic and lyrical worldview, it’s...

In my 2021 review of Stephen Wallack’s stellar, multi-faceted fourth album Colors , the pianist/composer was a fresh artist on my radar,...