Putumayo World Music is to international music what Alligator is to blues or Blue Note to jazz: The gold standard. With their brightly colored album covers...
Both musically and spiritually, powerhouse R&B outfit Southern Avenue is descended from the Pointer Sisters. More blues-oriented than the Pointers’ late-in-career hits, the Memphis-based Southern Avenue...
Poncho Sanchez was born in Texas to a family of Mexican heritage yet has made his career turning out some of the best Cuban-style jazz dance...
This review marks the twentieth I have written for the San Diego Troubadour, and this one, in particular, has been difficult. The album hit me profoundly...
His new recording finds local guitarist Peter Sprague in what is likely his musical happy place: surrounded by friends and family, playing his beloved Brazilian bossa...
Push on Through is Rich Wiley’s first album with his hometown power trio Do Right Louie. There’s one problem with the ten-song collection: it is way...
MohaviSoul is out with its seventh bluegrass album, titled Encore. The recording is well done, showing off the skills of band members Randy Hanson on vocals...
San Diego jazz guitarist Alex Ciavarelli will tell you in a New York minute that the late Joe Pass is his single greatest influence. And that...
The double-bass was adopted by jazz outfits starting about a century ago to replace the tuba, which worked just fine in loud nightclubs but tended to...
