Sometimes an artist’s lack of success in America remains a puzzle. No better example exists than Randy Crawford, the rare R&B vocalist who can handle jazz with equal aplomb. You May Also Like: No related posts.

Return to Forever, as Lenny White proudly told me, was a “jazz quartet on steroids” — with all of the muscular virtuosity and boisterous flourishes implied. Enter violinist Jean-Luc Ponty You May Also Like: Return to Forever’s Surprise ‘Returns’ Smartly Focused on the Past How ‘Stanley Clarke Band Featuring Hiromi’Read More

There might not be a more accurate title for a Mike Stern album than the one coming out next week. You May Also Like: Mike Stern – Trip (2017) Mike Stern and Jeff Lorber Fusion – ‘Eleven’ (2019)

Jazz supergroups come and go but with a new album looming for the third year in a row, The Cookers have signalled they are serious as a long term cooperative. They could be egged on by the acclaim heaped on their second effort, last years’ Cast The First Stone, butRead More

Don Cherry was making world music before the genre had its own spot at the record stores, and that focus on new sounds always gives his albums a fizzy atmosphere of discovery You May Also Like: No related posts.

As much as I enjoy piano trio jazz, such a trio playing the predictable fare of standards in their traditional arrangements does not get me very fired up. This here record is one of those affairs You May Also Like: Bill Evans – Another Time: The Hilversum Concert (2017) BillRead More

Sometimes music is about hearing two masters of their craft jam together, amazing listeners with their sheer artistry. That summarizes Across The Imaginary Divide You May Also Like: Bela Fleck, Robin McKelle, Delfeayo Marsalis + Others: Five For the Road Radical Empathy Trio – ‘Reality and Other Imaginary Places’ (2019)

With a new album release imminent, the productive, peaking pianist Orrin Evans again demands our attention with another bread-and-butter trio event, named Flip The Script. You May Also Like: Bill Evans – Time Remembered, The Life & Music of Bill Evans (2016, DVD)

Most performers are wary of live discs, this typically unforgiving setting that can reveal as much of the bad as it does the good. Fewer still are brave enough to choose a concert date as their recorded debut. You May Also Like: Alex LoRe – ‘Evening Will Find Itself’ (2023)Read More

A collaboration between jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Matt Chamberlain, it must have seemed pretty straight-forward upon first inspection: Frisell doing his Americana-tinged jazz guitar thing and Chamberlain laying down grooves behind him. But look at the names listed with them on the cover and you quickly began toRead More