Closing in on three decades as one of contemporary instrumental and world music’s most prolific and stylistically expansive composers and...

Released late in a year in which our individual and collective feeling of connection to other people and especially loved ones has been p...

Continuing on her artful, imaginative and uber-adventurous roll of capturing the tightrope of intense anxiety and cautious hope that defi...

In June 2020, the calming and soul-stirring music of the sonically fascinating vocal duo Shunia entered my consciousness by way of the au...

There are two key takeaways from the empowering, hard swinging and deeply bluesy experience of listening to Love, Dad, the third album by...

Not sure exactly what a Hurricane Mouse is – except for the kick-ass funk/rock/jazz slam jam opening The Justin Rothberg Group’s third fu...

Who says all the best, boldest and most badass new jazz groups come from NYC? Just when our tired spirits and hopeful ears are in critica...

Though her sound and songwriting acumen has evolved since ultra-indie, super hipster singer/songwriter Devon dropped her critically accla...

Not that our sense of what qualifies as “normal” will ever quite be the same after this, but in a normal year, a review of the annual Dav...

Like the fresh, glistening grace of the long awaited initial flurries of the year, renowned classical and jazz pianist Robert Prester and...

Considering how prolific and inventive Cathy Segal-Garcia has been these past few years, there are not a whole lot more superlatives I ca...

The promotional materials for Evan Troop’s second EP The Next Chapter inform us of some cool background and character defining tidbits – ...

In my review of veteran NYC vocalist Marty Elkins splendid collection Fat Daddy, I mentioned that the term “re-imagining” was too limitin...

Musicians often wax hyperbolic when it comes to praising their compatriots, Alan Pasqua touts Jeff Ellwood as “one of my favorite tenor s...

As with any musical project so boldly tackling the slow ebbing of life and the ultimate loss of a loved one, Nathaniel Bellows’ raw, grit...

It happens every year when Christmas rolls around. As exquisite as so much holiday music is – especially in the new age solo piano realm ...

Like a lot of artists whose brilliant and insightful songs seem almost prophetic in the way they meet our collective anxious moments of 2...

Longtime fans of Connecticut funk/pop/rock institution Michael Cleary may see the title of his dreamy and otherworldly, soulful pop/rock ...

2020’s been one of those anxiety ridden years that’s forced us to take stock of what’s important and to try to find the silver linings – ...

Striking all sorts of delightfully engaging poses as a romantic, fun-loving and defiantly optimistic retro rocker on his whimsically titl...