As you might imagine, reviewing all this high-end audio equipment in the context of maintaining a certain sound of the system can be difficult. This week has been a big period of changes, with a […]
Wow, it’s amazing. The review pile is actually getting pretty low. The only problem I’m having is with those CDs and LPs that might have gotten buried under something else, or misplaced during the cross-country […]
The arrival of Now from jazz pianist Lafayette Gilchrist (bandcamp page) coincided with a young person asking me, “What’s your favorite type of jazz?” The answer may change slightly here and there, depending on my […]
Some of you may have noticed that I don’t spend a lot of time talking about individual songs when I review albums. Occasionally, but not a lot. Perhaps that’s because I grew up listening to […]
What, another piano trio? I thought I was done with those last week! It’s funny how all these contemporary jazz releases keep arriving in clusters according to jazz genre. I love piano trios, and for […]
After spending most of last week inundated with jazz trios, it’s time to expand the mix into something bigger–say, a jazz quintet. (That, of course, wrongly suggested that I’m organized about the order of these […]
The theme this week, if you haven’t noticed, is small jazz ensembles with members who have been performing with each other for years. Pianist Joe Davidian, bassist Jamie Ousley and drummer Austin McMahon have been […]
Jeff Williams and his new album Bloom makes me rethink all of those reviews where I discuss the idea of the drummer-as-leader in jazz, and how that individual coaxes performances from the others on stage […]
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