Month: December 2023

Lisa Hilton: Coincidental Moment

For most of her career, Lisa Hilton has created an impressionistic approach to her piano compositions and playing style. This time around, with trumpeter Igmar Thomas, bassist Luques Curtis and drummer Rudy Royston, she drinks from the well of Horace…

Hiromi: Sonic Wonderland

One of modern jazz’s true explorers, Hiromi creates a fresh sounding alvumplaying both piano and keyboars with Hardien Feraud/b, Gene Coye/dr and Adam O’Farrill/tp on this recent release.She switiches between acoustic and electronic with alacrity, the former showing her rich…

Roger Lin: Exploitation Suite

Guitarist Roger Lin creates a tapestry of tones on  his compositions interpreted with the mix and match team of two different rhythm sections in Moshe Elmakias/p, Willis Edmundson-Quinton Cain/dr and Isaac Levien-Simon Willson/b and saxist Chaz Maretineau. There’s even a…