Month: February 2016

Lisa Hilton: Nocturnal

Pianist Lisa Hilton must have gone to Gold’s Gym a few times the past year, as she shows lots of muscle on this latest disc. She’s teamed up with an aggressive group of JD Allen/ts, Antonio Sanchez/dr, Gregg August/b and…

Doug MacDonald: Solo Plus

Guitarist Doug MacDonald has been one of the most consistent, if undersung, guitarist around. He’s got a warm and clean tone, and for this “solo” album he gives shows what an orchestra of one can do. H does some rich…

Marlene Ver Planck: The Mood I’m In

Vocalist Marlene Ver Planck gives an old school-styled delivery of standards here with a simpatico team of John Pearce/p, Paul Morgan/g, Bobby Worty/dr, Mark Nightingale/tb and Andy Panayi/sax-fl. She’s got a warm and slightly soft-leathered voice which gives depth to…

Julian Julien: Terre II

Here’s some music that mixes genres like back in the old days of fusion, creating audio soundscapes. You get a  plethora of moody keyboard panoramas, sometimes with a pulsating rhythm, or at other instances with a static flow, and guests…

Jason Kao Hwang: Voice

Jason Kao Hwang wrote the music for this album, which accompanies poems by Davida Singer, Lester Afflick, Patirical Sears Jones, Fay Chiang, Seve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo. The musicians range from the voices of Deanna Relyea and Thomas Bucker, while…