The folks at the always delightful Turtle Bay Records – a label where the best jazz players of today play the best tunes of yesterday –...

While the cover of Jim Witzel’s 2022 album Feelin’ It revealed its dual aesthetic as “Trio & Quartet,” the ultra-versatile veteran...

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As a longtime fan of all things Mark Winkler, I immediately gravitated to “Paris Apartment” when I began immersing in singer/songwriter...

Considering the wonderful myriad of classic jazz influences and adventurous spirit of traveling inherent in the spirited, deliriously...

Admittedly, I’m kinda late to a thoughtful and rollicking, richly poetic party that started back in 2007, when Jeremy Dion, a...

From the album art of her wearing a pink motorcycle helmet and a tight-fitting superhero outfit and gloves to the raucous defiant spirit...

In a brief promotional video for “Authenticity,” the fourth lead single from their highly anticipated debut collaborative album Quiet...

A few lines into Morgan Taylor’s infectious and intoxicating new single “Energy,” the emerging R&B/pop singer/songwriter breezes into the...

Listening intently to and feeling gratefully seduced by Stephanie Austin Letson’s exquisite and dreamy, all at once spry and swinging...

Listening to keyboardist Bill Heller’s funky, poppy, dynamic and soulful new single “Ripp Tide,” whose title is a wink to his many years...