Other - CD Reviews (539)
Israeli composer/pianist Yitzhak Yedid merges a chamber-jazz program into a deeply personalized spin on the strife, violence and solemn overtones relating to the Holy Ci…
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When trombonist Chris Brubeck isn’t performing with The Brubeck Brothers Quartet or Triple Play, he is busy composing modern classical pieces that draw from jazz and other …
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If you can, stop reading this review for just a few minutes, and put Cadence’s newest release Twenty for One in your player. Don’t read the liner notes, don’t go …
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Avi Rothbard, originally from Israel, has been making his way through the New York jazz scene for the past few years and this is his second release with Midlantic Record…
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When I first heard 3D’s Ritmo de Vida, I was left with a feeling of interest, so I played it again, and felt a sense of respect for the two composers, guitarist…
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It's really hard to place what Tyrone Brown is trying to do or trying to accomplish. It's very obvious that Tyrone Brown loves swing, gypsy swing, as well as Sephardic m…
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Tyrone Brown is featured here alongside Bobby Zankel on alto sax and Adam Williams on guitar in the same string section as his other release Between Midnight and Dawn…
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Who’d figure.... a jazz editor receiving a Christmas CD by Regis Philbin to review? Hmm.... well, maybe I’ll pop this bad boy in for a spin. After all, the jacket says t…
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New Monsoon, a jam band with an impressive resume, exudes musicality with their latest release The Sound. A glissando on the organ jumpstarts the first track, "Journ…
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Mitchell Froom Brings It All Back HomeA Thousand Days is a line from a Louie Pérez poem and the title of Mitchell Froom's third solo release. Froom …
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I am glad to know that Christmas Is For Grownups Too. I never claimed to have grown up, just out, as in a larger belly, once I got into my mid forties. That is …
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On their second release, Twenty For One, a cappella group Cadence continue to explore originals as well as time honored pop classics. Variety is the key to their exi…
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As autumn winds clear a path to make its presence known and you look towards the skies watching the clouds roll by in rhythmic sequence rest assured that Tom & Joy are t…
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Billed as an avant-garde, chamber-rock outfit and/or avant-garde Cabaret inflected punk unit, this New York City-based group’s manifesto features a morphing of East Euro…
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Guitarist/vocalist Doug Wamble is something of an enigma, unless you’ve heard Mose Allison and/or Ray Charles. Then, it all becomes clear who/what Wambl…
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"Henry Cow" and "The Work" keyboardist/reedman Tim Hodgkinson performs solely on baritone sax during one track of this curiously interesting 1984 LP release, now reissue…
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Gentle Giant lead vocalist/saxophonist Derek Schulman is celebrating this phenomenal ‘70s progressive-rock band’s legacy with 35th anniversary edition CDs of the origina…
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Often there is a direct exchange of concepts between black writers and jazz. Some of the novels include references to the power of the music, and the music receives inspira…
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West Coast guitarist Carl Weingarten is a colorist who blends an enviable technique with gobs of emotive sentiment and subtly designed electronic effects. On this endeav…
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With his guitar strapped to his back in search of his destiny in Chicago, Riley B. King left the Mississippi cotton fields forever and became the legendary B.B. King. Hi…
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