REVIEW: Charnett Moffett “New Love” – AllMusic

June 12, 2021
REVIEW: Charnett Moffett “New Love” – AllMusic

By Matt collar, AllMusic The third collaboration between bassist Charnett Moffett and guitarist Jana Herzen, 2021’s New Lovefinds the duo exploring an expansive and uplifting, fusion-influenced sound. Both a creative and romantic partnership, Moffett and Herzen (who married in 2020) have been making music together since 2007’s Passion of a Lonely Heart. Read more here.

EDITORS CHOICE: AllMusic Awards Four Stars to Wallace Roney’s ‘Blue Dawn – Blue Nights’

August 30, 2019
EDITORS CHOICE: AllMusic Awards Four Stars to Wallace Roney’s ‘Blue Dawn – Blue Nights’

by Matt Collar, AllMusic  Wallace Roney‘s eighth album for the HighNote label, 2019’s Blue Dawn-Blue Nights, finds the trumpeter collaborating with a cadre of young lions and balancing dusky after-hours warmth and propulsive post-bop modalism. The album comes three years after the similarly expansive A Place in Time, which featured veterans Gary Bartz, Lenny White, and Patrice Rushen. From that … Read More