With his transcendent new instrumental track “Celestite Blue,” Rob C offers us the perfect trippy, inventive and propulsive soundtrack to our time of joy and relief after an unprecedented year full of fear, anxiety, lockdowns and forced time away from the usual flow and pleasures of life. Truly taking us on an internal and external journey through space, time and higher spiritual realms, the hypnotic, dynamics filled track is the highly anticipated follow-up to the fast emerg

An extraordinary, infectious and transcendent dance-pop/electronica collaboration by Paul Natural (aka Brooklyn based composer, artist and producer Gabriel Stanley) and soulful, smooth voiced emerging vocalist Dominic Augustine, the sonically trippy and explosive “On the Rise” is a powerful showcase for their unique individual talents and inspirational on a number of personal and collective levels. Making his first venture into music after years of success as a runway model (

For contemporary jazz fans, among the many joyous (pun very much intended) reasons to revisit (via remaster and reissue) Ojoyo Plays Safrojazz, veteran saxophonist and pennywhistle master Morris Goldberg’s robust explosive 1996 celebration of his Capetown, South Africa roots and heritage, is the spirited trumpeting of Chris Botti during his smooth jazz, pre-global stardom days. Botti guests on seven of these nine tracks, soloing brightly and buoyantly on the frolicsome (and p

The provocative title of Amber Weekes’ ‘Round Midnight Re-Imagined may have you thinking that the sensual voiced veteran L.A. jazz vocalist simply has in mind regaling us with a batch of well-chosen, lushly arranged and fully swinging standards. She definitely does that beautifully and infectiously, from her engaging, laid back, Latin spiced whirl through the title song to her snappy, downhome, ultra-bluesy and downright witty burn through Oscar Brown Jr.’s “Hazel’s Hips.” Ye

Launching his career after a year at Berklee College of Music touring with Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs, New York born, Charlotte NC based guitarist Andre Ferreri has musically pretty much done it all. He’s worked with everyone from Sam Moore, Chuck Berry and The Coasters to Herbie Mann, Bill Evans and Bucky Pizzarelli; helmed contemporary jazz ensemble Airstream for 12 years; written for TV, films, commercials and karaoke; and launched an indie label, Laser Records to he

Aside from being wildly prolific as a recording artist, one thing’s for sure about internationally acclaimed veteran Philly bred, Los Angeles based guitarist Doug MacDonald – he loves mixing it up with a wide variety of ensembles. Just in the past few years, he’s knocked it out of the swinging park with The Tarmac Ensemble, the Doug MacDonald Quartet and the Doug MacDonald Duo (with bassist Harvey Newmark). His latest collection, the engaging, spirited, rhythmically freewhee

A whimsical comment from a prominent jazz critic says it all about Lorraina Marro, a stylish and sophisticated jazz singer, standards interpreter and storyteller extraordinaire who was named one of Los Angeles’ Jazz & Blues Living Legend Honorees in 2015. The quote, which we can apply just as passionately in any discussion of Marro’s delightfully stylish and sophisticated new collection Love is For All Time, reads: “There's that moment of magic when the night and the day are

Hot off her hit sensual funk rendition of “For What It’s Worth,” the Vietnam era classic she slyly re-appropriated for contemporary times, and her latest single, a heartfelt, deeply soulful, and jazzy-adventurous re-imagining of Grover Washington Jr/Bill Withers’ Grammy winning classic “Just the Two of Us,” Rebecca Angel makes her long-awaited full length album debut with the vibrant, multi-faceted Love Life Choices. As with all of her previous singles and 2018 EP What We Had

Sometime in February 1993, Nirvana was preparing to record In Utero, their third — and what would sadly be their final — album. The band was working with musician and record producer Steve Albini. Interestingly, on the night before the recording session, Albini offered his production services for free, but only if Nirvana beat him at a game of pool. The catch? They needed to pay him double if he won. The band ultimately declined this offer, as the production fee was at $100,

As we listen to the trippy sonic details, spacious atmospheres and the cool, strangely comforting drone of Tod Lippy’s voice throughout his delightfully witty, socially conscious and often gleefully incisive new album Yearbook, it’s good to keep in mind one thing about this lifelong manic expressive – he launched his music career in middle age (with his 2019 LP Here We Are), and his Wikipedia page lists musician LAST after artist, designer, writer and editor. So as you enjoy

Brielle Brown was quite the behind the scenes creative force before her emergence as a world wise, deeply reflective and soulfully philosophical singer-songwriter on her intensely heartfelt and empowering debut EP The Well. She spent the last decade in artist development, running an indie label and entertainment company (with her husband, two time Grammy winner Marc Swersky) and serves on the Steering Committee for the Louis Armstrong Center for Music and Medicine at Mount Si

Quite often, new age artists affirm the spiritual foundations of their musical mission by choosing a stage name whose elements reflect their deeper vision and purpose. And sometimes, as in the extraordinary life of and musical career of Chakuna Machi Asa, the provocative, soul-stirring moniker seems divinely chosen to facilitate a higher purpose and destiny. It is who they have been all along. While in college, just as she was beginning her lifelong quest to understand her pl