There doesn’t seem to be an official explanation why it took nine years for this epic trio concert by legendary pianist Roger Kellaway, Bruce Forman (guitar) and Dan Lutz (bass) at The Jazz Bakery in L.A. to become an official album release. One thing’s for sure though. The playful title “The Many Open Minds of Roger Kellaway” captures the buoyant, alternately coolly and hard swinging energy of the wildly improvisational seven pieces as well as the legendary pianist’s blissfu

Marking the 25th anniversary of its release, the late Jeff Buckley’s lone full length collection Grace only made it to #149 on the Billboard Top 200, but went double platinum worldwide over time and has been cited by countless critics as one of the greatest albums of all time. Two key tracks, “Mojo Pin” and “Grace” grew out of an extraordinary and prolific, pre-stardom collaboration in the early 90’s between Buckley and veteran guitarist Gary Lucas. The two were penning tunes

As freewheeling as high octane as contemporary rock influenced jazz fusion gets these days, electric guitarist Bernie Mora and his hot blooded ensemble Tangent may dub their latest set No Agenda, but they’ve got one – to wake our ears to powerful new sonic frontiers for the genre, and energize our feet, hands, heart and soul in the process. On funky blasters like “Commando Roll” and “Cup A Joe,” he gets ample solo heart time between rambunctious passages grooving with Corey A

When a female horn player’s branding is nothing less than “The Saxophone Queen,” she better deliver the goods – and in the case of Fostina Dixon, who plays soprano, alto and baritone (not to mention flute and clarinet) with equal sparkle and funk, she does that and a whole lot more on her hard hitting, deeply grooving, slickly and soulfully produced urban jazz album Vertical Alignment. With only one previous album, the gospel-flavored Here We Go Again (2016), under her belt,

Whether you’ve heard Jon Patrick Walker’s previous albums The Guilty Party (2013) or People Going Somewhere (2016) or not, you can’t help but be compelled by this prominent performers multi-fisted approach to expression. A highly respected stage actor (on Broadway and beyond) for a quarter century, he’s played stage versions of his heroes Bruce Springsteen and John Lennon and most recently earned raves playing King George in a national tour of Hamilton. From hip-hopping in co

Listening to the lush, soulful acoustic melodies and soaring vocal harmonies of UK acoustic alt folk trio Wildwood Kin on their truly stunning self-titled sophomore release, the immediate frame of reference was obvious to me, but apparently not to other journalists and promoters. Most compare the sparkling, transcendent chemistry of Meg Loney and her cousins, sisters Emillie (guitar) and Beth (bouzouki, keyboards) Key, to legendary acts like Simon & Garfunkel and Fleetwood Ma

And now for something completely different…only the multi-talented jazz singer, songwriter and poet Lisa B has been weaving the kind of “must pay attention to every word” storytelling magic that we hear on Reverberant: Poems and Music throughout her unique 20-year career. The new collection features a dynamic twist on Lisa’s usual approach of inserting spoken word segments into vocal dominated tunes. Here, complementing and in the grand tradition of recent poetry-dominated ja

Video For The Groove Project's "To Be a Bird"... Following the ever-evolving creative muses of multi-talented, Singapore based composer, producer, guitarist and creative visionary Arun Shnoy has been a fascinating yet slightly maddening challenge these past few years. Coming out of seemingly nowhere to win a Grammy nomination (Best Instrumental Pop Album) for his 2012 debut Rumbadoodle, Shenoy has recorded under numerous group names with different sonic trajectories that have