Like that first morning pot of coffee, you just gotta have your java and keep filling it up to the brim. There’s no reason to stop pouring when the enjoyment level is so high. And thus we have the magnetic Sandra Marlowe’s new release, “The Heart Always Remembers,” in which her fount of energy and... Continue Reading →
Drummer Aldo Bagnoni addresses the isolation of social distancing with a beautiful answer: human connection, which, musically, translates easily with his new album, “The Connection.” Smooth and gradual like a pinkening sunrise, “Glide” has the subtlety of breathing life in; becoming the strength of a positive affirmation. In “Lipompo’s Just Arrived,” short bursts and harmonies... Continue Reading →
All about those clean sounds and so melodically driven - Jason Fabus’s latest CD “Live at Barley Forge” achieves its goal to honor the laid-back West Coast vibe. Though leader and sax player Fabus veered off early in his career to play for Disney theme parks, the experience has strongly informed his musical identity as... Continue Reading →
As a musically ambitious paean to honor the recent Black lives taken (and the joy of those lives), composer and pianist Casey Heyo has let the music bleed through every crack of her psyche in the new release called “Raw Session for the Names Remembered.” Heyo has taken a very complicated, emotional issue and transformed... Continue Reading →
Soaring orchestral strings, clarion vibe work and a fat, juicy sax are not sounds you would expect to hear under one musical roof, but there you have it: a sparkling and spanking new album from “Beatbox Sax” musician Derek Brown called “All Figured Out” featuring his recent collab with the Holland Concert Jazz Orchestra. The... Continue Reading →
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