Month: April 2013

If you’re a fan of the Modern Jazz Quartet, pianist Aaron Diehl is gonna get you in the right mood. He teams up here with David Wong/b, Rodney Green/dr and Warren Wolf/vibe for a collection of tunes that takes the…

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Chris Potter is by far one of the most adroit tenor sax players around these days. In LA alone, within last few months he’s had gigs as a sideman with Pat Metheny and the Monterey Jazz All Stars, and he…

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Here’s a box set that gets a bull’s eye for accuracy. Sarah Vaughan put out a ton of material during her long career, but if you want the absolute essential of this key vocalist, this is THE place to start.…

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Don’t think of it as “jazz” as much as 20th or 16th century modern music. What you’ve got here is a collaboration of various Eastern European composers who’ve been interpreted by either a pianist (Angela Tosheva), recorder (Benedikta Bonitz) or…

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Vocalist/violinist Beata Pater mixes and matches a variety of sounds and styles here, with a combination of old school acoustic and Headhunter funky modern. Electric fusion sounds from the late 70s permeate material like Herbie Hancock’s own “Butterfly” as well…

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OK! I’ll admit it! I’ve always been sucker for guitar duets. From Eddie Lang and Lonnie Johnson to John Renborn and Stephan Grossman to Pat Metheny and Jim Hall and whoever I’ve left out. There’s a nice one that’s were…

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Here are two discs that are guaranteed to add some pep tour your next outdoor get together. Lula Lounge is part of the burgeoning Toronto music scene, and this disc captures some of the music that is south of our…

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If your idea of heaven at a baseball game would be having Vin Scully sit next to you and describe what’s going on between pitches, the jazz equivalent would be sitting with jazz journalist Scott Yanow in some place like…

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