Unity is the second release from Hemisphere, a San Diego-based quintet spearheaded by guitarist/lead vocalist Rob Shinno along with saxophonist/vocalist Don Bowman and anchored by Max...
Jason Ricci is easily one of the greatest blues harmonica players in the world, a master of the difficult “overblow” technique that allows this New Orleans-based...
Vortex is the third CD release from jazz saxophonist Kenny Shanker on the Wise Cat record label. The New York City-based performer rotates between alto and...
Pawns: Not for the Ordinary is the most recent CD from 24-year-old Philadelphia pianist/composer Micah Graves. All eight of the original tracks (except the track “When...
Little else gets the blood pumping than the pulverizing rhythm of big band swing. Arms twitch, hands beat a tempo on tabletops, feet tap then turn...
Always the Outsider is the latest release from singer/songwriter Stacy Antonel, a native San Diegan who splits her time between here and Nashville, where she moved...
On November 18, 1972 I reviewed the Loggins and Messina concert for my college newspaper at the Orrie de Noyer Auditorium in Hackensack, New Jersey. The...
It would seem strange that a record giving tribute to the most important jazz trumpeter in history lacks in its ensemble of estimable musicians a trumpet...
I Had a Dream: Songs of an Immigrant is a ten-track compilation that puts to music the poems authored by Betty Karon Hertz, documenting her impoverished...
