Month: February 2024

Riley Mulherkar: Riley

Trumpeter Riley Mulherkar blows soft embers with a team of Chris Pattishall/p-pr, Rafiz Bhatia/pr, Russell Hall/b, Kyle Poole/dr and Vuyo Sotashe/voc on a collection of originals ad covers . The mix of loops creates ambience fort he horn on “Chicken…

Mizz Lowe: Classy Woman

Mizz Lowe is not mizzing much on this mix of blues teaming up at times with Bobby Rush and a humming team of Brother Paul Brown/B3-keys-b-dr-g, Paul Black/slg and some cameo guests. She and Bobby are gritty as they chicka…

Mark Winkler: The Rules Don’t Apply

Mark Winkler is building up a catalogue of not only impressive songs, but of equally enduring albums. This latest, produced by Barbara Brighton, mixes and matches local cats like John Beasley/p-arr, Bob Sheppard/reeds, Grant Geissman/g, Clayto Cameron-Dan Schnelle/drd, Babe Davis-Dan…

Eugenie Jones: Eugenie

This is about the fourth album I’ve heard from vocalist Eugenie Jones, and it’s as a hard hitter as the other ones. She knows how to milk a mood and lyric, with this album focusing on soulful hits as well…

Chris Rottmayer:  Being

Pianist and composer Chris Rottmayer leads a classy quartet with Russ John son/tp-fh, Matt Endres/dr and legendary bassist Rufus Reid on this latest release. You can detect the passing of baton from teacher Mulgrew Miller on this release, as there…