Boomslang from Portland-based saxophonist Rich Halley has provided a soundtrack of sorts to this point in the holiday, where the pressure and the last minute planning and the things that don’t quite work out the […]
I barely made it through another year of holiday jazz releases, and I have to admit I skated a little because I only talked about one release from Jeff Hamilton as if that’s the only […]
Saxophone player Kenny Shanker and his new album, Beautiful Things, act as quite the polar opposite to the Swiss and Russian jazz that has dominated my review schedule over the last few weeks. These international […]
Some of my favorite jazz trios are sax trios, proven by my continuing awe at classic LPs such as Sonny Rollins’ Way Out West. I feel as if they’ve been rare lately, and perhaps that’s […]
I’ve seen this type of album cover quite often in the world of contemporary jazz, just a photo of the artist or two, and the simplest of titles that suggest no one cared about the […]
I’m a big proponent of quality over quantity, which is perhaps why I don’t own a lot of those monstrous box sets on CD or even on LP for that matter. Perhaps it’s also because […]
The new album from sax player Jeff Ellwood (website), The Sounds Around the House, is the perfect soundtrack for cold, windy days like this. First of all, it’s not really day music–at least in normal […]
It’s strange how music and the visual arts can bounce off each other, creating new echoes. Vincent Van Gogh has been my favorite artist for quite some time, ever since hundreds of his works toured […]
After a week of decidedly avant-garde recordings that glance off the side walls of contemporary jazz, Nicholas Brust and his latest album, Frozen in Time, are a needed respite. Referred to as a “premiere saxophonist […]
Stuff I Heard, the new album from saxophone player Troy Roberts, is the polar opposite of yesterday’s Doug MacDonald music review. The Coachella Valley Trio’s Mid Century Modern was easy, familiar and yet expertly played, […]
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