Category: Ringer of the Week

Great jazz records these days are  pretty tough to come by. Great CLARINET jazz records are even rarer. Great clarinet POST BOP jazz records are about as common as blacks on Don Sterling’s guest list. This guy Felix Peikli was…

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Looking for some inspiring and creative jazz vocals? Here’s the disc you’ve been dreaming of! A native of New York, of Indian descent and fluent in Spanish, Portuguese and French (don’t you want to meet her parents?!?), Kavita Shah uses…

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The notes accompanying this disc read “File Under Classic American Jazz.” What more can be said about a collection of (mostly) duets between guitarist/vocalist Richie Kaye and reedmeister Tony Lavorgna. Yes, pianist Sam Kuslan rolls up his piano on the…

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If you go to Wikipedia for more information on Bill Jennings, you’re directed to a collection of almost a dozen guys with that name: one that played ice hockey, a baseballer, and then three types of footballers-Welsh, soccer and American.…

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Guitarist Thom Douvan served music well back when Nixon was in the White House by being a member of the famed Funk Brothers, who were the backup band for the Motown label. This disc, which includes Duncan McMillan/B3, Tony Malfatti/sax,…

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Here is some of the most sublime music you’ll come across this year. Guitarist Michel Heroux features himself in duets, trios and quartets performing his own luscious pieces on this evocative album. A few of the songs, such as “Easy”…

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If you have any discs my Michael Bubbles, but not of Curtis Stigers, please do me a favor and get rid of the former, and fill up with the latter. Like, start with this one. BUBLE’ IS A POSER!! HE…

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Forget about The Great American Songbook. You want oldies? How about Euripedes, who composed the story of Medea and Jason (of “and the Argonauts”) in 431 BC. As Mr. Portokalos famously said in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, “We were…

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Never heard of this guy before, but after taking in this album, I’ve got to find  out more about him. Where’s he from? Where’s he been? Who are his influences? No matter, as guitarist/composer Noshir Mody lets the laundry out…

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There are certain times in your life when you think everything is the way it’s supposed to be, and then something comes to shake you up to realize how far you’ve strayed from your path. Sometimes I get that way-I…

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