Ready or not, here comes 2013’s Monk International Competition saxophone winner Melissa Aldana. ‘Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio’ marks a solid first step in the post-Big Win phase of her young career.

Cropper is set for another European tour with the Animals later this year.

In the melancholy wisdom of his lyrics, this lost singer-songwriter has very few rivals.

It was a long stretch between Gene Segal’s first and second albums but ‘Mental Images’ assures that the intervening time was time was spent.

Lofgren’s ‘Face the Music’ set includes 169 original songs from across his career.

This serves as a tasty sampling of their output on Columbia Records.

Despite the Grateful Dead’s success, there have been a few musical blunders along the way.

“Kulee Baba,” when Steely Dan goes global. Ahhh, the CD. Those plastic discs of music we used before iTunes. With a noise reduction system Donald Fagen and Walter Becker were crying for when (mis)mastering Katy Lied. Seventy minutes worth and no static at all. CDs arrived commercially in the FallRead More

Turns out that ‘Sleepwalker’ was very much a concept album.

Michael Dease’s big band take on “Roppongi” breathes new life into this little-noticed Randy Brecker gem.