Roy Assaf and Eddy Khaimovich take the customary steps for a jazz ensemble's debut record on Andarta. Re-harmonized standards? Check! Guest spin from an establishe…
It seems to me that a blurb from the conductor of the Nashville Symphony Pops orchestra is the wrong way to go when getting a recommendation for a funk/hipster/groove/loung…
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Just because one can record a CD doesn’t mean that one should. Janis Siegel’s Sketches of Broadway is, to put it mildly, a smug and self-indulgent exercise litter…
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The crooner is an endangered species. Once the aspiration of many an entertainer, being labeled a crooner slipped from hip to square long ago. That is until Harry Connic…
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08 Oct
Play Zone by George Mitchell
Named after a Portland jazz haunt, George Mitchell’s Play Zone is nothing if not good straight-ahead swinging post-bop jazz. There’s nothing terribly fascinating or …