It is always exciting to me when a new Barrett Martin album comes across my desk. Released in August, ‘Scattered Diamonds’ is incredibly, his 9th studio album and does not...
Award-winning Scottish pianist Brian Kellock spearheads the European launch on 30th October of New Zealand-based Thick Records, with two of the label’s three initial releases...
Josephine Davies continues to assert her unique presence across the crowded landscape of international jazz with the latest release from the trio project that she has been...
The title of What Comes Next, the latest album by guitarist Peter Bernstein, certainly echoes a question that we’ve all been asking ourselves in recent months. Locked away, wary...
Many years ago I composed a song called “Una lunga conversazione” ( A long conversation) dedicated to a beautiful young lady. We used to talk a lot on the phone and even...
Earlier this Month Bassist Michael Feinberg released his latest album titled “From Where We Come” on SteepleChase Records. The Album is his seventh as a leader and...
Guitarist Tom Guarna has assembled yet another “dream team” of a band for Spirit Science, his second release for Destiny Records and his eighth overall. To realize a vision...
The instrumental trio Azymuth modernized the sound and style of Brazilian jazz with their electronic instruments, angular arrangements and ingenious synthesis of jazz, funk, rock...
Charlie Parker was born 100 years ago. The alto saxophonist became one of the founders of the bebop, the type of music that gave jazz a new dimension after the swing period. For...
It can be overwhelming to realize how much water surrounds us, affects us and impacts our lives. It’s an element vital to survival yet can be utterly devastating; it can be...
Today Rick Simpson released the first single from his soon to be released re-imagining of Radiohead’s Kid A album. Rick Simpson’s impeccable technique and restless imagination...