Charlie Dennard’s longtime “day job” and globetrotting ways as musical director of Cirque Du Soleil’s “Totem” provide the perfect...

Upon a first casual listen to this spirited, sometimes easy and often frenetically swinging album, it feels like an amiable,...

One of the leading figures in traditional and contemporary tango, renowned Argentine born bassist Pablo Aslan – a Grammy and Latin Grammy...

The title track and sweeping grand finale of the Ernie Watts’ quartet sublime, stylistically eclectic and multi-dimensional Home Light is...

One of contemporary jazz’s true breakaway artists of 2018 with three consecutive Billboard charting hits, keyboardist/composer Carol...

You don’t have to know the story behind Can’t Get Out of This Mood, an intimate, exquisitely arranged collection of ballads introducing...

“Explicaciones,” the title track to Magela Herrera’s jazzily exotic debut album, begins with a haunting, hypnotic percussion and flute...

There was a sweet, engaging moment somewhere in the middle of the Dave Koz & Friends’ 2018 Christmas tour stop at Cerritos Center for...

You first hear the raw, organic, Americana laced magic in the hoppin’ fiddle and streetcorner percussion that grabs your heart on “Hog...

For veteran Jamaican born guitarist Norman Johnson, everything changed in high school when he caught wind of George Benson’s seminal...

This masterfully rendered, alternately sweeping and introspective three movement concerto gives us a deeper understanding, in several...

A multi-talented jazz treasure in her hometown of Kansas City, her longtime home base of Los Angeles and far beyond for decades,...