Endea Owens Brings Her Jazz Party to Lincoln Center
Last night at Lincoln Center, bassist Endea Owens emerged from behind the audience and earned a spontantous clapalong from the crowd on a brisk version of Stevie Wonder’s Higher Ground, getting a...
View ArticleBrianna Thomas Takes Her Soulful Sound to the Next Level
Buoyed by an endorsement from Will Friedwald, the guy who wrote the book on jazz singing, Brianna Thomas’ career was in full swing while she was still in college. But she’s always been more than a...
View ArticleWild, Surreal, Psychedelic Keyboard Mashups From Brian Charette
The latest artist to defiy the odds and put the grim early days of the lockdown to good use is Brian Charette, arguably the most cutting-edge organist in jazz. As you will see on his new solo album,...
View ArticleAn Eclectically Catchy Big Band Album by the Heisenberg Uncertainty Players
Does listening to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Players transform them from a seventeen-piece big band into a trio? One of the premises of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is that some particles are...
View ArticleGorgeous String Jazz Sounds at Manhattan’s Best Facsimile of a Real Jazz...
What a beautiful early Friday evening in Central Park, under the trees north of the 81st Street entrance on the west side, a few blocks from where cellist Marika Hughes grew up. Playing to a sparse but...
View ArticleA Soulful, Gospel-Inspired, Overdue Debut From Individualistic Jazz Singer...
Trineice Robinson brings deep gospel roots to her work in jazz. Like most good singers, she’s covered a lot of ground throughout her career, from classical choral music, to jazz and various touring...
View ArticleDrummer Kresten Osgood Airs Out His Funky Chops on Hammond Organ
Here in the west we emphasize musical specialization to the point of absurdity. In the Middle East and Africa, pretty much everybody is expected to be a competent drummer: after that. you find your own...
View ArticleSummery Sounds From Guitarist Yuval Amihai and Pianist David Kikoski
Go to pianist David Kikoski‘s discography page, and as you would expect there are plenty of albums where he’s the bandleader. Scroll down to his sideman projects and you’ll find that the very first...
View ArticleSlinky, Sophisticated Organ Jazz That Might Have Slipped Under the Radar
Dr. Pam Popper, who has emerged as one of the brightest lights since the 2020 lockdown, has made a big deal of the fact that no matter how disturbing the current situation becomes, we can’t afford to...
View ArticleNikara Warren’s Black Wall Street Band Make a Trip to the Charlie Parker...
Vibraphonist Nikara Warren is iconic jazz pianist Kenny Barron‘s granddaughter. She and her Black Wall Street project are arguably the most cutting-edge attraction on opening night of this year’s...
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