Nick Finzer’s Hear & Now, “Steps – What Was” (2018): One Track Mind
Nick Finzer’s Hear and Now celebrates the 50th anniversary of Chick Corea’s classic ‘Now He Sings, Now He Sobs,’ issued in December 1968.

Nick Finzer’s Hear and Now celebrates the 50th anniversary of Chick Corea’s classic ‘Now He Sings, Now He Sobs,’ issued in December 1968.

With the unusual structure of the electro-acoustic trio Hearts & MInds come opportunities to implement ideas you couldn’t really pull off in a ‘normal’ trio setting. ‘Electroradiance’ adroitly exploits those opportunities.
Founding keyboardist Steve Porcaro discusses a hard-to-find instrumental that has never been released domestically on a proper Toto album.

Released 10 years ago today, ‘Sugar Mountain’ showed that the inner beauty of Neil Young’s early songs shine, even when completely unadorned.

Ivo Perelman and Jason Stein’s ‘Spiritual Prayers’ provides a symbiotic, seemingly effortless demonstration of free improvisational playing.
Issued 25 years ago, Lisa Germano’s darkly intriguing debut made it clear that she had always been more than simply an accompanist.
Forty years ago, Gerry Rafferty’s most famous album offered a lasting sense of rebirth, even if the former Stealers Wheel frontman never found it himself.

This album seems to have brought Donny McCaslin to a decision point: Is he a jazz player, an improviser or a rock / pop / stage show player?
If this had been included on an album of all-new material, rather than on a hybrid studio/live Yes project, perhaps it would have garnered more recognition.

Harriet Tubman continues with the lofty ideas found on 2017’s ‘Araminta,’ and one ups it with deeper experimentations into rhythms.