06 May
Paco Paco by Bill McBirnie
Canada has produced a number of fine jazz musicians, including some excellent flutists. Moe Koffman (1928-2001) was one of the pioneers of the genre, helping to put jazz fl…
Andrea Brachfeld is another artist who deserves to be much better known. If she keeps making records like this one it should not take long. A New York-based Latin jazz f…
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02 May
Keep Searchin by Steve Turre
Having recently seen Steve Turre in performance--with McCoy Tyner's septet--and interviewed him for a section on Rahsaan Roland Kirk for my forthcoming book on The Flute…
Dave Valentin has been making recordings now for 27 years. He has yet to make a bad one. Reviewing his 2005 release World On A String, I attributed his success …
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The music world lost a great soul May 10th of this year, with the passing of pianist John Hicks. Known as a "musician's musician," Hicks enjoyed a forty-plus year career…