In Heavy Rotation: Ladies Sing the Blues (and More)
Must-hear new CDs from TRACY NELSON, JEWEL BROWN, BARBARA BLUE and LIBBY YORK
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Hope Is the Thing With Feathers
As birds go, so goes humanity. Three nominally classical albums poetically address the looming threats to the natural…
Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing
Herein a dozen smokey, sensuous and often ambivalent discourses on love and passion delivered with the breathy tenderness…
A Quiet Storm of Guitar Mastery
Guitarists LARRY NEWCOMB, with his son JAKE on bass, and DAVE STRYKER lead their combos on scintillating jazz-oriented…
In the Still of the Night
Reflective, ruminative, serene, spiritual, moving and soothing--three new albums are right on time for our times.
Make That ‘Loving Tribute’
Honoring important people in his life and career, ace jazz guitarist LARRY NEWCOMB adds BUCKY PIZZARELLI to his…
The Common Language of the Heart
Tony Bennett and Bill Charlap are together again, now in a relaxed, refined, reflective and altogether classy survey…
Like the Music, He Lives On
JEFF HEALEY, a remarkable artist by any measure, exercised his passion for vintage jazz and swing in his…
Sing to Me, Sing to Me…
Having made so many memorable statements in her career, 84-year-old ANNIE ROSS delivers one of her finest on…
A Solid Sender
KENNY 'BLUES BOSS' WAYNE is back with ROLLIN' WITH THE BOSS, a cool album of Kansas City boogie-woogie…