On a lark. I asked for a cajon for my birthday a couple of weeks ago. Ever since I was introduced to this musical wooden box, back in Hawaii a few years ago, I thought […]
I remember the first time I heard Somesh Mathur like it happened yesterday. It was one of my quarterly visits to Scot Hull, back in 2018, a familiar six-hour drive from Rochester NY to Frederick […]
It’s an emerging and already dominant theme in contemporary jazz during the pandemic, and that’s using the latest technologies to connect and perform remotely with other musicians. This seems to be an unusually prolific time […]
Within a few seconds of putting Bill DiCosimo and Edgar Pagan‘s new CD into my player, I realized I was hearing something that I feel like I haven’t heard in a while–a beat. Jazz is […]
Master Volume from bassist Teymur Phell has been sitting on the review pile for quite some time, and now I feel a bit guilty for letting it languish. First of all, it’s good, really good–this […]
There’s an interesting story behind keyboardist Johnny Young and his new outfit, the Stellar Dogs. Johnny Young’s from Brooklyn, and he was playing at B.B. King’s when he heard a trio of Eastern European playing […]
There’s a common theme among the last few jazz reviews I’ve written, and that’s geography–Peter Lin‘s Taiwan, Tuomo Uusitalo’s Finland, Marton Juhasz’s Hungary and Aikra Tana’s Japan. Guitarist Luca di Luzio isn’t shy about discussing […]
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