The tunes are solid and so are the arrangements, but there’s no disguising good playing and ‘Disguise’ has all of those things out in the clear open. A welcome return to form for Ada Rovatti.

A late-’70s Hagar tune eventually hit the Top 10, but only after Springfield covered it.

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.

He says they walk a fine line between celebrating their past and moving forward.

What changed? Lee isn’t exactly sure. But he’s got a theory or two.

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

He says Led Zeppelin gave Bonham “the vehicle to play the way he really wanted.”

Diligently designed songs, executed with taste, substance, and energy.

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.