For more than a decade now, Jeff Oster has been one of new age music’s most transcendent anomalies, carving out a major, multiple-award...

With apologies to – and more than a few playful winks at - Beethoven, multi-talented songwriter, soprano saxman, singer, swinger and...

On “Camelot,” the beautiful, sensual new single from Sy Smith’s critically acclaimed new album ‘Sometimes A Rose Will Grow in Concrete,’...

When you listen to Paul Brown’s all at once cool and heartfelt, guttural and plaintive vocals on his latest masterwork Uptown Blues, it...

When we think of New Orleans, certain images, phrases and life-changing events come to mind: Mardi Gras, Creole Cuisine, Second Lind,...

Most jazz vocalists who record standards consider themselves storytellers, but whether they’re superstars or, like the incomparable...

The title of Ken Wiley’s melodically and rhythmically inviting new album translates to “Exotic Horn” – but his lead voice is not an...

With the release of the uniquely compelling, exotically titled collection Malita-Malika just a few months after her equally provocative...

Look! Up on the bandstand! It’s a piano! It’s a saxophone! It’s a trumpet! It’s Superheroes, a bold and daring, wall-scaling, day saving,...

Closing in on three decades as one of Smooth Jazz’s most “sure thing” romantic hit makers, saxophonist Kim Waters celebrates 20 years as...

Twenty seven years after co-founding Fourplay, legendary Grammy winning keyboardist/composer and contemporary jazz innovator Bob James’...

No doubt the global fame of Grammy winning trumpet and flugelhorn master Randy Brecker made his name the obvious choice for co-lead...