by Herb Boyd, Downbeat “Listeners familiar with Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra are sure to experience a bit of reverie after hearing the opening fanfare of Gustavo Cortinas’ Desafio Candente.” Read … Read More
By Ron Hart, Aol. No matter how far removed we might be from his era, Louis Armstrong will always matter. Without him, the worlds of jazz and pop may have … Read More
By Scott Yanow, The Syncopated Times Louis Armstrong entered a new and lucrative phase of his career in 1947 when he broke up his big band and formed his All-Stars. … Read More
By Mike Myers, JazzWax On this album, Dara brings fresh life and meaning to songs of social awareness from the 1960s and ’70s as well as originals that reflect on … Read More
By Héctor Martín, Canción a Quemarropa Sale a aire el nuevo disco Generations, el nuevo álbum del dúo nominado por tres ocasiones a los premios Grammys, The Baylor Project. El … Read More
By Skip Heller, All About Jazz Louis Armstrong officially returned to small band leadership May 17, 1947 via a triumphant concert at Town Hall that was less comeback than reaffirmation. … Read More
By Keanna Faircloth, WBGO I first met Samara Joy in November 2019, two days before she won the prestigious Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition at NJPAC. She walked into … Read More
By Editor, All About Jazz “Aries Goddess (For Consuela and the Fallen)” is a new video from ace Chicago trumpeter Marques Carroll. Featured on his debut album The Ancestors’ Call, … Read More
By Ron Wynn, Nashville Scene Vocal stalwart Dara Tucker, a former Nashvillian now in New York, has delivered perhaps her finest collection of updated and reworked classics adapted from non-jazz … Read More
By Mesfin Fekadu, AP News NEW YORK (AP) — For years Wayne Brady had been working on a one-man show about being a young Black man growing up in Orlando, … Read More
