The Greatest Party at Sea: The Smooth Jazz Cruise
The Greatest Party At Sea: The Smooth Jazz Cruise How would you like to be in Smooth Jazz Heaven? It sails around the Caribbean and features an A-list of smooth jazz performers in concert and in...
View ArticleLive at Scullers Jazz Club by the Yoko Miwa Trio
If I lived in Boston, I would have already heard of Yoko Miwa. She is a mainstay of the jazz scene there, and her teaching at the Berklee College of Music places her in the center of musical activity...
View ArticleSolo/Duo by Tosh Sheridan
Tosh Sheridan likes to play nylon-string acoustic guitar, and this album displays that in abundance. Now, before you dismiss this as wine bar or bookstore music, give it a listen. You may be surprised...
View ArticleThe Right Time by Mike Melito
Mike Melito's The Right Time features nine songs that come squarely from the bop and hard bop traditions. The set is an interesting one from the standpoint of compositions, featuring a mix of...
View ArticleJazz from India!
Jazz Club based in Goa, India: www.jazzgoa.comReview music and musicians from Goa, India at www.jazzgoa.com
View ArticleAspects by the Kevin Kizer Quintet
Neil Tesser, who wrote the notes for this release, calls Kizer's music "chamber jazz." Well, okay, that's one element of what the Kevin Kizer Quintet is doing. They have a violin, and there are some...
View ArticleThe Tip of the Sword by Herwig - Beirach - DeJohnette
Three veritable jazz heavyweights align for a briskly moving and thoroughly modern program, steeped in galvanizing thematic encounters. Trombonist Conrad Herwig, heralded for his hip 'Latinizations' of...
View ArticleCarol Whitney Britto (1935-2012)
Carol Britto spent twenty years in Toronto, a regular fixture at Lyte's, George's Jazz Club and Bourbon Street before relocating to New York. In New York Carol played all the major clubs -...
View ArticleVlad West - In My Corner
VLAD WEST, known in Russia as Vladimir Sermakashev, was a child prodigy. Born in Baku (Russia) he studied piano from age 3, composition from age 5. At that early age he was playing solo piano concerts...
View ArticleCarol Nielsson - Here's To Love
On her new Jazz CD, "Here's To Love," vocalist Carol Nielsson draws from a career in musical theater to add a fresh, yet comfortable spin on old favorites. She recalls the innocent delivery of Doris...
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