While some old school artists find reasons to lament the shift from the tactile joys of CD sales and ownership to the digital, streaming...

As someone who writes artist bios as part of my living, I am privy to the general intent of the endeavor. It’s supposed to entice press...

Legendary lyricist Sammy Cahn once wrote about the holiday season, “It’s that time of year when the world falls in love…” Blessedly for...

Guess it’s just a tool of the marketing machines trying to help emerging indies stand out, but sometimes the overflow of comparisons and...

It’s not often that a debut album not only introduces us to a fab new emerging vocal and songwriting talent, but also the crackling,...

There’s something about the uke, isn’t there? Somehow, this tiny stringed instrument we fondly associate with Hawaii found its way to...

With a versatile, wanderlust driven stylistic palette that’s long taken her beyond her jazz foundations to explore everything from New...

Two intriguing questions occur to me when listening Autumn Monsoon, an intricate, hypnotic-exotic, soul-transportive collection...

One of the great joys of a life and career spent listening to music is discovering new artists – and it often happens that those grand...

True to the title of his remarkable, genre-transcendent collection Sempre: A New Dimension, Ian Maksin’s approach to the cello is...

A famed Hollywood marketing executive and long beloved patron of the arts, Richard Del Belso never wrote a song or sang or played a note....

In my earlier review of multi-flutist Monica Williams’ stirring debut album Journey of Tears, I complimented her for blissfully blending...