Ascending: Jazz Trios
Two fine albums by two of the finest jazz trios extant, led by DAVE STRYKER and ANDY PRATT.…
Tag: Nat King Cole
Tell It On the Mountain, Indeed
Gospel, jazz and Classical merge spectacularly on JOHN PAUL MCGEE's A GOSPEJAZZICAL CHRISTMAS
The Deep Roots Yuletide Baedeker 2023
So many good things inside--behold the YULETIDE BAEDEKER 2023 edition. All the Christmas you could want!
The Christmas Song, Like No Other Christmas Song
NAT KING COLE. 'The Christmas Song.' End of story, right? Not quite. There's more where that came from.
You Can’t Do That? You Can Do That.
Jazz improvisation meets Lennon-McCartney in tasty fashion on LOREN DANIELS's TICKET TO RIDE.
The Deep Roots Yuletide Baedeker 2021
The one, the only, the Deep Roots Yuletide Baedeker for 2022 is hot off the presses. Your guide…
‘It’s Time to Shine’: An Interview With Ivy Ford
IVY FORD, riding a wave of acclaim for her 2020 album Club 27 (a Deep Roots Album of…
‘The Cry of Anguished Protest, The First of Many Wrought From Me’
From The Bluegrass Special archives: an updated feature on the enigma that was the late BEVERLY KENNEY: Her…
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…
‘Deck The Hall’
It's really titled 'DECK THE HALL' (singular) and dates to 16th century Wales. Behold the story behind the…