When legendary artists discuss their latest recordings, they often claim it’s their best work to drum up interest from longtime fans who...

After keeping the scene hopping as one of NYC’s most inventive drummers for a decade, McClenty Hunter. Jr – perhaps best known for his...

What happens when one of the “farthest out cats” on NYC’s loft jazz scene fractures a bone tripping over a curb? When that cat is...

Any bandleader bold enough to imagine, via a sonically expansive jazz playground infused with hard ensemble swing and edgy rock fusion,...

On her free-wheeling, joyfully schizophrenic 11th album The Jazz Chamber, Cathy Segal-Garcia surrounds her emotionally resonant,...

Anyone soulful and spiritually intuitive enough to celebrate the season of renewal by juxtaposing a bluesy Ray Charles classic alongside...

Anyone who’s ever suffered a great loss – and that means all of us at some point – will find moving, inspiring and coolly swinging...

Who says jazz has to be super-serious all the time? Not the delightfully witty, bitingly incisive social observer/master satirist Dave...

About halfway through his spirited stroll through Michael Franks’ “Scatsville,” veteran jazz vocalist John Proulx, tongue firmly in...

Calling her delightfully eclectic new album The Rings of Saturn, Joanne Tatham – truly one of the L.A. jazz scene’s most engaging vocal...

Normally when we hear the phrase, “this one’s for the birds,” it’s got a negative connotation – but when we apply it graciously to the...

Fred Farell’s deeply soulful, spiritually uplifting and simply but magnificently produced new album Distant Song celebrates the veteran...