Under normal circumstances you would refer to the repertoire on this album as “standards”, but when June Garber sings them they become songs written by her...
With every recording she has produced Ayelet Rose Gottlieb has always given notice that she is an artist of the first order. However, with this 2020...
“Scatman”… the moniker for Benjamin Sherman Crothers is a dead giveaway for the kind of rhythmic vocalastics he practiced before his death in 1986. But even...
The big, rolled and warm notes of Joel Frahm’s saxophones are all over the liquefying, molten repertoire on The Bright Side. Even when he is playing...
What better way can there be to get to know the unique character music of Alan Hovhaness than listening to his profoundly beautiful and meditative music...
This recording, Dream Logic – as the website of Sarah Jerrom tells us – is one that launches her career as a songwriter as well as...
Antonio José Santana Martins, better known worldwide as Tom Zé better personified Oswald de Andrade’s Manifesto Antropofágico with whimsical “power to the imagination” and a delightfully...
Dominic Mancuso’s reputation could have rested on his Juno Award-winning Comfortably Mine [DOT Productions, 2010] alone. However, he continued his passionate musical exhortations on his next...
The great Muhammad Ali’s famous rebel yell: “I’m black and I’m beautiful!” rings true over and over again through the eleven tracks that fill this compilation...
With so much 21st century programmatic music to choose from in the realm of Jazz it’s refreshing when a disc turns up that harks back to...
O happy Fate to be overwhelmed by the cultural force that is the Kokoro Singers under the inspired artistic direction...
One of the most fascinating aspects of listening to music of Chris Trinidad, a young Canadian composer and bass guitarist...
Trust Chick Corea to have associated only with the finest musical partners throughout his long and illustrious career – from...
The Canadian singer Angela Verbrugge declares her Love for Connoisseurs [of music] with one superb song after another on this,...
Cuban musicians – especially those living outside the island nation – being exposed to an enormous palette of sound, have...
Listening to this fourth iteration of the music produced by the Beny Esguerra and a team of musicians including Paul...
A Biography of Sonny Greenwich The great Ezra Pound, always forthcoming with advice – often unsolicited – to writers and...
Four years ago (in 2016), Dalya Alberge of The Guardian wrote that the great violin virtuoso Nigel Kennedy lamented the...