Ascending: Jazz Trios Two fine albums by two of the finest jazz trios extant, led by DAVE STRYKER and ANDY PRATT. Read more…
The Deep Roots Elite Half-Hundred, 2023 The best of the roots music rest for the year recently completed... Read more…
DEEP ROOTS ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2023 Eleven worthy long players lead our best-of 2023 picks. Read more…
In Trim: Bruce Brown’s Endless Epic Writing for Longboard magazine in 2005, PAUL HOLMES captured the entire epic saga of the making of BRUCE BROWN's THE ENDLESS SUMMER. Read more…
Engaging Piazzolla, With Flair Clasically trained, the LONDON TANGO QUINTET brings elegance and improvisatory freedom to a tango tribute. Read more…
Bob Marovich’s Gospel Picks Gospel picks with a World Music flavor dominate Bob Marovich's latest hot platters... Read more…
Right On Time, Indeed Daring to change, CHATHAM COUNTY LINE is renewed and reinvigorated to the nth degree on HIYO Read more…
Updike at Easter, 2024 Edition Seven Voices on 'Seven Stanzas" with new voices (including Updike's own) and appropriate gospel music interludes. Read more…
DUNCAN STRAUSS checks in with another scoop: an interview with DUNCAN P. FORGEY, author of FLYIN' KAI: A PELICAN'S TALE complete with a warning about climate change.
CAPPELLA ROMANA uses its 30th album to honor a little-known occasion when the Byzantine Emperor celebrated Christmas at the English court in Eltham, circa 1400 A.D.
The early struggles and ultimate triumph of the FISK JUBILEE SINGERS, as reported by JAMES M. TROTTER in his 1878 book profiling 'remarkable musicians of the colored race.'
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MICHELLE EDWARDS's ME AND THE BOSS is subtitlted "A Story About Mending and Love." For young readers, it's so much more. Illustrations by APRIL HARRISON.