By Richard B. Kamins, Step Tempest Vocalist J D Walter has been in and around the contemporary for the better part of two decades but lately, he’s been missing. Turns … Read More
REVIEW: JD Walter in Step Tempest
Month: April 2020
REVIEW: Charles Pillow Ensemble in Rochester City Newspaper
By Ron Netsky, Rochester City Newspaper On Charles Pillow Ensemble’s “Chamber Jazz” album, the Eastman School of Music professor plays flute, alto flute, clarinet, alto and soprano saxophone, oboe and … Read More
REVIEW: Lauren Henderson The Songbook Session in Let’s Call This
By John Chacona, Lets Call This You have to give vocalist Lauren Henderson a lot of credit for generosity. For large portions of her short, nine-song, 43-minute CD “The Songbook … Read More
REVIEW: Bobby Selvaggio “Live From The Bop Stop” Musical Memoirs’s Blog
By Dee Dee McNeil, Musical Memoirs’s Blog For some time, and particularly during these Corona-Virus-days, hot beds of jazz in big cities is fading away. For lack of performance spaces … Read More
REVIEW: Lauren Henderson The Songbook Session Reviewed in WICN
By Tom Lucci, WICN Vocalist Lauren Henderson’s fifth album brings her to the Great American Songbook. “Not another standards album,” you say, but this collection really stands out. Henderson, who … Read More
REVIEW: Lauren Henderson – The Songbook Session Reviewed in Bebop Spoken Here
By Ann Alex, Bebop Spoken Here We never sleep at BSH, not even during a pandemic, so I now find myself reviewing from a digital download. A hazard of this … Read More
REVIEW: Charles Pillow Ensemble Chamber Jazz Reviewed in Audiophile Audition
By Jeff Krow, Audiophile Audition The emergence of chamber jazz as a musical genre has been much more prevalent in the last few decades. Blending classical music with jazz improvisation … Read More
REVIEW: Richie Goods ‘My Left Hand Man’ Reviewed in Jazz Journal
By Matthew Wright, Jazz Journal A bit of a curate’s egg here – bassist Goods’ tribute to the late pianist Mulgrew Miller consists of Miller’s compositions, with the exception of … Read More
REVIEW: Jonathan Barber Legacy Holder in Glide Magazine
By Jim Hynes, Glide Magazine Legacy Holder is the second album for drummer, composer and bandleader Jonathan Barber who leads a quintet comprised of pianist Taber Gable, guitarist Andrew Renfroe, alto saxophonist Godwin Louis, and … Read More
REVIEW: Andy Milne The reMission In All About Jazz
By Geno Thackara, All About Jazz Though Andy Milne actually hasn’t recorded in the classic trio format before, you’d never know it just from The Re:Mission. He’s been no slouch … Read More