Eric Wyatt makes good on his enviable Brooklyn upbringing by evoking the masters he’s met as a child while finding his own voice to do it.’Borough of Kings’ is pure, Brooklyn-bred jazz at its finest.

They offer unique insights into Journey’s first Top 20 single, and one of its last.

The costs of these conflicts, the very real costs, are writ large.

The first jazz record released by the just-beginning ESP-Disk record company, ‘Spiritual Unity’ quickly put this tiny label on the map, as well as thrust Ayler to the forefront of the free jazz movement when it was released more than a year later. Even then, this record was well ahead of the frontier of jazz and remains so today.

Bonamassa advances his new album with a pretty nice display of his soulful side.

Scott Amendola’s leadership and Nels Cline’s presence should make ‘Fade To Orange’ a special recording, but don’t sleep on Trevor Dunn. Every time I’ve come across a record on which he’s appeared, it’s been a rather good record. That bodes well for this one.

After a period of exploring roots music, Hornsby takes a bold step.

Write, record and release a new jazz tune every six weeks for a year? Nick Hempton could be onto something good.

A private, warmhearted meeting of minds – and we were allowed to listen in.

Like Piazza himself, this restless delight never stays in one place for long.