Two qualities of Don Thompson that one finds irresistible is that he is musicianly to the core, quietly and unmistakably commanding your attention at every level,...
Every once and a while you come across an artist [the poetics of] whose musicianship makes your heart skip a beat. It doesn’t happen too often,...
Andy Ballantyne may owe much to the great ancestry of Jazz saxophone such as to men like Lester Young, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Giuffre, John...